Barrett Looks Beyond Harvard, Yale in Hiring First SCOTUS Clerks

New Justice Amy Coney Barrett looked beyond Harvard and Yale for new clerks while sticking mostly with ones who have already served in fellow conservatives’ Supreme Court chambers.

The 48-year-old jurist could bring much needed academic diversity to Supreme Court clerk classes, approximately half of which in recent terms went to either Harvard or Yale law. Barrett, a graduate of Notre Dame, is the only current justice not to herself have gone to those elite schools.

The two men and two women who will join Barrett for her first high court term are:

• University of Chicago Law School graduate Nick ...