Position: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Law School: Harvard Law School
President George W. Bush nominated Roberts in 2003, and two years later, he became the youngest Chief Justice, at 50 years old, in the last 200 years.
Roberts grew up in Long Beach, Indiana, where his father worked for Bethlehem Steel. To pay his way through Harvard, he worked at the steel mill in Indiana during the summers.
After graduating from Harvard Law, where he was managing editor of the Law Review, Roberts clerked for Judge Henry Friendly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and then Justice William H. Rehnquist.
Then he served as Special Assistant to the Attorney General, Associate Counsel to Ronald Reagan in the Office of White House Counsel, and worked at the Department of Justice, according to his official biography.
He was also the Deputy Solicitor General under Kenneth Starr at the DoJ from 1989 to 1993. In his career at the DoJ and the White House, he argued 39 cases before the Supreme Court, winning 25 of them. After leaving government service, he spent a decade in private practice at Hogan and Hartson. He ran the prestigious firm's appellate division and earned more than a million dollars a year before he was tapped for the Supreme Court.