Supreme Court Justices: November 2010

Antonin Scalia

Scalia was born in Trenton, New Jersey, and attended public grade school and Catholic high school in New York City, where his family had moved to. He attended Georgetown University as an undergraduate, and obtained his Bachelor of Laws degree from Harvard Law School. Appointed to the Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, he served from 1986 to 2010, 24 years. He is still in office today.

Anthony Kennedy

Kennedy was born and raised in Sacramento, California. He graduated from C. K. McClatchy High School in 1954. He was an undergraduate student at Stanford University from 1954–58. He was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1988, since the retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor. He served 22 years, and he is still in office.

Clarence Thomas

Clarence Thomas born on June 23, 1948.Thomas grew up in Georgia and was educated at the College of the Holy Cross and at Yale Law School. He was the Chairman of the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in 1982. George H.W Bush appointed him to the Supreme Court. He served from 1991 to 2010. He is still in office right now.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg was born on March 15, 1933. From 1961 to 1963 she was a research associate and then Associate Director of the Columbia Law School Project on International Procedure, learning Swedish to co-author a book on judicial procedure in Sweden. She was a professor of law at Rutgers from 1963 to 1972. In 1970, she co-founded the Women's Rights Law Reporter, the first law journal in the U.S. to focus exclusively on women's rights. Ginsburg conducted extensive research for her book at the University of Lund in Sweden. Ginsburg was appointed by Bill Clinton. Ginsburg took the oath of office August 10, 1993. She is still in office right now.

Stephen Breyer

Stephen Breyer was born on August 15, 1938. Breyer graduated from Lowell High School. At Lowell, he was a member of the Lowell Forensic Society and debated regularly in high school debate tournaments, including against future California governor Jerry Brown and future Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe. He was appointed by Democratic President Bill Clinton in 1994. He is still in office.

John G. Roberts

John Glover Roberts, Jr. was born on January 27, 1955 is the 17th and current Chief Justice of the United States. Roberts attended Notre Dame Elementary School, a Roman Catholic grade school in Long Beach, and then La Lumiere School, a Roman Catholic boarding school in LaPorte, Indiana where he was an excellent student and athlete. He has served since 2005, having been nominated by President George W. Bush after the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist.

Alito, Samuel Alito

Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr. was born on April 1, 1950. He attended Steinert High School in Hamilton Township and graduated from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs with a Bachelor of Arts in 1972 before attending Yale Law School, where he served as editor on the Yale Law Journal and earned a Juris Doctor in 1975. He is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George W. Bush and has served on the court since January 31, 2006.

Sonia Sotomayor

Sonia Maria Sotomayor was born on June 25, 1954. She graduated with an A.B., summa cum laude, from Princeton University in 1976 and received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1979, where she was an editor at the Yale Law Journal. She was an advocate for the hiring of Latino faculty at both schools. She is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving since August 2009. She was appointed by Barack Obama.

Elena Kagan

Elena Kagan was born on April 28, 1960. After attending Princeton, Oxford, and Harvard Law School, she completed federal Court of Appeals and Supreme Court clerkships. She began her career as a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, leaving to serve as Associate White House Counsel, and later as policy adviser, under President Clinton. After a nomination to the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which expired without action, she became a professor at Harvard Law School and was later named its first female dean. Is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving since August 7, 2010. Elena was appointed by President Barack Obama on January 26, 2009.