John G. Roberts Jr.

John Roberts was born in Buffalo, New York, on January 27th, 1955, and was raised in the Midwest, primarily Indiana. His father, John Roberts, Sr., was a plant manager for Bethelem Steel and his mother Rosemary (nee' Podrasky) was the granddaughter of immigrants from Czechoslovakia. After graduating first in his class from La Lumiere, a small Catholic boarding school, Roberts attended Harvard College for three years, from which he graduated summa cum laude in 1976. Three years later, Roberts received his Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School, where he was editing manager of the Harvard Law Review. After graduating from Harvard Law magna cum laude, he clerked on the U.S. 2nd Court of Appeals for the legendary judge Henry Friendly. The following year, Roberts scored a clerkship with William Rehnquist, who at this time was Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. From 1981 to 1982, Roberts later worked in the U.S. Department of Justice during the beginning of President Ronald Reagan