John Roberts
Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Biography

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After graduating from law school, Roberts served as a law clerk for Judge Henry Friendly on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals for one year.
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From 1980 to 1981, Roberts served as a law clerk to then-Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist on the United States Supreme Court.

From 1981 to 1982, he served in the Reagan administration as a Special Assistant to U.S. Attorney General William French Smith.

From 1982 to 1986, Roberts served as Associate Counsel to the President Ronald Reagan.

Roberts served in the George H. W. Bush administration as Deputy Solicitor General from 1989 to 1992.

On July 19, 2005, Roberts was nominated by President George W. Bush to fill the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court created by the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Following the death of William H. Rehnquist, Bush withdrew Roberts' nomination as O'Connor's successor, and sent the United States Senate notice of Roberts' new nomination to the position of Chief Justice.

Roberts was confirmed as the seventeenth Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by the U.S. Senate by a vote of 78-22 on Sept. 29, 2005.