“If confirmed, I'll be the first justice in the history of the Supreme Court to have a group of all-women law clerks,” he said.
“That is who I am. That is who I was,” he said, noting that the majority of the 48 law clerks he has hired in the last 12 years have been women.
“In a letter to this committee, my women law clerks said I was one of the strongest advocates in the federal judiciary for women lawyers. And they wrote that the legal profession is fairer and more equal because of me,” he added.
“In my time on the bench, no federal judge—not a single one in the country—has sent more women law clerks to clerk on the Supreme Court than I have.”
All-Female Team
The four women have been identified as Shannon Grammel, Kim Jackson, Megan Lacy, and Sara Nommensen.Lacy, a 2010 University of Virginia School of Law graduate, recently served as counsel for Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the head of the Judiciary Committee.
Jackson, a 2017 Yale Law School graduate, who becomes one of just three black law clerks on the court this term, clerked for Kavanaugh this past year as he served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, a position he held since 2006.
Apart from clerking for Kavanaugh, Jackson has clerked for U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich on Washington’s federal trial court, according to Above the Law.
Jackson was also one of the former students of Kavanaugh who signed a letter of support for him.
Grammel, a 2017 Stanford Law School Graduate, clerked for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, according to the Journal.
She was president of the Stanford Law Review while at Stanford and had recently been working at the Department of Justice’s Civil Appellate division just before joining Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court team.