John T. Fey served as Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States

Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States

The Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States is the officer of the Supreme Court of the United States responsible for overseeing filings with the Court and maintaining its records. The current Clerk is William Suter, who has served since 1991.-History:...

 from 1956 to 1958, during the Chief Justiceship of Earl Warren

Earl Warren

Earl Warren was the 14th Chief Justice of the United States.He is known for the sweeping decisions of the Warren Court, which ended school segregation and transformed many areas of American law, especially regarding the rights of the accused, ending public-school-sponsored prayer, and requiring...

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Before coming to the Supreme Court

Supreme Court of the United States

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, Fey was a professor of tax law and the dean of the George Washington University Law School. After a relatively short tenure as clerk, he resigned to become the president of the University of Vermont

University of Vermont

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. He later served as president of the University of Wyoming

University of Wyoming

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before entering the private sector.