<P> Before the advent of modern law schools in the United States, justices, like most attorneys of the time, completed their legal studies by "reading law" (studying under and acting as an apprentice to more experienced attorneys) rather than attending a formal program . The first justice to be appointed who had attended an actual law school was Levi Woodbury, appointed to the Court in 1846 . Woodbury had attended Tapping Reeve Law School in Litchfield, Connecticut, the most prestigious law school in the United States in that day, prior to his admission to the bar in 1812 . However, Woodbury did not earn a law degree . Woodbury's successor on the Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis, who received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1832, and was appointed to the Court in 1851, was the first Justice to bear such a credential . </P> <P> Associate Justice James F. Byrnes, whose short tenure lasted from June 1941 to October 1942, was the last justice without a law degree to be appointed; Stanley Forman Reed, who served on the Court from 1938 to 1957, was the last sitting justice from such a background . In total, of the 113 justices appointed to the Court, 48 have had law degrees, an additional 18 attended some law school but did not receive a degree, and 47 received their legal education without any law school attendance . Two justices, Sherman Minton and Lewis F. Powell, Jr., earned a Master of Laws degree . </P> <P> The table below shows the college and law school from which each of the justices sitting as of April 2017 graduated: </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Name </Th> <Th> Appt . by </Th> <Th> College </Th> <Th> Law school </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> John Roberts (Chief Justice) </Th> <Td> G.W. Bush </Td> <Td> Harvard </Td> <Td> Harvard </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Anthony Kennedy </Th> <Td> Reagan </Td> <Td> Stanford </Td> <Td> Harvard </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Clarence Thomas </Th> <Td> G.H.W. Bush </Td> <Td> Holy Cross </Td> <Td> Yale </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Ruth Bader Ginsburg </Th> <Td> Clinton </Td> <Td> Cornell </Td> <Td> Columbia </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Stephen Breyer </Th> <Td> Clinton </Td> <Td> Stanford </Td> <Td> Harvard </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Samuel Alito </Th> <Td> G.W. Bush </Td> <Td> Princeton </Td> <Td> Yale </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Sonia Sotomayor </Th> <Td> Obama </Td> <Td> Princeton </Td> <Td> Yale </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Elena Kagan </Th> <Td> Obama </Td> <Td> Princeton </Td> <Td> Harvard </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Neil Gorsuch </Th> <Td> Trump </Td> <Td> Columbia </Td> <Td> Harvard </Td> </Tr> </Table>

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