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John Glover Roberts Jr. (born January 27, 1955) is the seventeenth and current Chief Justice of the United States. He has served since 2005, having been nominated by President George W. Bush after the death of William Rehnquist. He is a judicial conservative and constructionist wing of the Supreme Court, ruling based primarily on the founder's intent and originalism forms of judicial philosophy. He grew up in northern Indiana where he was educated in a private boarding school before attending Harvard University where he was managing editor of the Harvard Law Review. After being admitted to the bar, Roberts became a clerk for William Rehnquist before taking a position in Attorney General's office during the Reagan Administration. He later became an Associate Counsel to President Ronald Reagan, and was appointed by President George H. W. Bush as a judge on the D.C. Circuit, but resigned after two years on the bench. He spent fourteen years in private law practice and served in the Department of Justice and Office of the White House Counsel and argued thirty-nine cases before the Supreme Court before being nominated to join the court as an associate justice. Chief Justice Requisite died during his confirmation hearings, and he was renominated to fill the newly vacant seat.