The Supreme Court Falters in the Diversity of its Clerks
Women have suddenly become scarce among the Supreme Court Justices’ clerks, the New York Times reported August 30, 2006. While 50% of law school graduates in 2005 were women, only 7 of the 37 Supreme Court law clerkships are women, the first time since 1994 that the number has been in the single digits. Justices Breyer, Ginsburg, O’Connor and Stevens have cumulatively had the most women clerks from 2000 to 2006, with each averaging 44% women or more.
