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The Clerk of the Court is the person who oversees the administration of the Court’s docket and caseload. The position of clerk is established by federal law, 28 U.S.C. section 671, which provides in part: “The Supreme Court may appoint and fix the compensation of a clerk and one or more deputy clerks. The clerk shall be subject to removal by the Court. Deputy clerks shall be subject to removal by the clerk with the approval of the Court or the Chief Justice of the United States.”

There have been nineteen Clerks of the U.S. Supreme Court in its history, including:

John Tucker	1790–91
Samuel Bayard	1791–1800
Elias B. Caldwell	1800–25
William Griffith	1826–27
William T. Carroll	1827–63
D. W. Middleton	1863–80
James H. McKenney	1880–1913
James Maher	1913–21
William R. Stansbury	1921–27
Charles Elmore Copley	1927–52
Harold B. Willey	1952–56
John T. Fey	1956–58
James Browning	1958–61
John F. Davis	1961–70
E. Robert Seaver	1970–72
Michael Rodak	1972–81
Alexander Stevas	1981–85
Joseph F. Spaniol Jr.	1985–91
William K. Suter	1991–present

The nineteenth Clerk of the Court, William Suter, is seen in this artist’s sketch reading a document as John Roberts (foreground) is about to be sworn in as chief justice on October 3, 2005. The sitting justices are on the left and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, President George W. Bush, and Roberts’s family are seated on the far right. Dana Verkouteren/AP Images.