John Roberts
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John G. Roberts Jr. (born in Buffalo, New York, 1955) is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, having been nominated by President George W. Bush on May 9, 2001, and confirmed by the United States Senate on May 8, 2003. He has been reported as President Bush's nominee to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court of the United States according to a senior administration official. The annoucement to the Public will be held at 9:00 eastern.
Roberts graduated from Harvard College in 1976. Roberts receivied his Juris Doctorate from the Harvard Law School in 1979.
He was a law clerk for Henry Friendly, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1979-1980, and for Associate Justice William Rehnquist, Supreme Court of the United States, 1980-1981. He then took a job as special assistant to William French Smith, the attorney general, U.S. Department of Justice, 1981-1982, before being appointed associate counsel to President Ronald Reagan, White House Counsel's Office, 1982-1986.
He entered private practice in 1986 as an associate at the Washington D.C. law firm of Hogan & Hartson, but left to serve from 1989-1993 as Principal Deputy Solicitor General, U.S. Department of Justice. He returned to Hogan and Harston in 1993 as a partner where he remained until he was appointed to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. In private practice and as Principal Deputy Solicitor General he has argued more than 30 cases in front of the United States Supreme Court.
Roberts has been named by President George W. Bush as a nominee to replace the retiring Sandra Day O'Connor as an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate he will take office for a lifetime term.
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As of Tuesday July 19th, 7:47PM Eastern time, 1 hour 13 minutes before President Bush's 9PM speach officially revealing his Supreme Court Justice pick, it has been reported by the Associated Press, and is being reported as fact, that John Roberts will be Bush's candidate for the empty seat.