Ex-Marine, professor, MLB draft pick among high court clerks

The group of 16 women and 23 men hired by the justices were already on paths to become leading judges, professors and Supreme Court advocates.... You put it on your resume and all of a sudden doors open, sometimes justifiably so and sometimes not," Justice Elena Kagan has said .Kagan, who clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall, is one of five current justices who was once a Supreme Court clerk.