<p>JHS, Ruth Bader Ginsburg ended up graduating from Columbia after a transfer to be with her husband, an artifact of a bygone era. She knocks down your stats (add Columbia, subtract one Harvard) but of course supports your point. </p>
<p>Agree on Miers. Other prospective appointees also overwhelmingly Ivy (Douglas Ginsburg-Cornell, Kimba Wood-Harvard) and Northwestern is something of an historical outlier on the court. I know Stevens, but who else went to Northwestern?</p>
<p>People just don't change or want it any way...</p>
<p>Arthur Goldberg.</p>
<p>Ginsburg spent two years at Harvard; under current practice (it's relatively common for people to take their third year elsewhere), she would have a Harvard diploma. I think she's fairly identified with Harvard Law School; she's certainly proud to have gone there. No one thinks of her as having gone to Columbia; they think of her as having gone to Harvard and following her husband to New York. (One of my partners actually dated her at Cornell, by the way, before she started going out with Marty.)</p>
<p>Doug Ginsburg went to Chicago for law school, I'm pretty sure.</p>
<p>And, just to be clear, Thurgood Marshall was a towering figure in American law long before he was appointed to the Supreme Court. It didn't matter where he went to law school. But the Howard University of his generation produced some of the best lawyers of his generation, no doubt about that.</p>
<p>You are right, Douglas Ginsburg went to Chicago Law and, like the eponymously surnamed Ruth, went to Cornell undergrad.</p>
<p>Goldberg was appointed in 1962, and was thus outside the scope of your chronological restriction.</p>
<p>I went to exactly the same schools as RBG in the same order and for the same reason and, yes, I received my law degree from H, not C. Nonetheless, RBG's degree is from Columbia, current practice notwithstanding.</p>
<p>Agree on Marshall, although I think it's a little hyperbolic to say Howard produced some of the "best lawyers of his generation" unless the net is cast quite widely.</p>
<p>and to the failed nominations, Ivy-underscoring department, we should add Lani Guinier of Yale</p>