    Congressional Directory for the 115th Congress (2017-2018), October 2018 Revision
    [Pages 853-856]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 JUDICIAL BRANCH

                       SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

               One First Street, NE., 20543, phone (202) 479-3000

        JOHN G. ROBERTS, Jr., Chief Justice of the United States, was born
    in Buffalo, NY, January 27, 1955. He married Jane Marie Sullivan in 1996
    and they have two children, Josephine and Jack. He received an A.B. from
    Harvard College in 1976 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1979. He
    served as a law clerk for Judge Henry J. Friendly of the United States
    Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1979-80 and as a law clerk
    for then Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist of the Supreme Court of
    the United States during the 1980 term. He was Special Assistant to the
    Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice from 1981-82, Associate
    Counsel to President Ronald Reagan, White House Counsel's Office from
    1982-86, and Principal Deputy Solicitor General, U.S. Department of
    Justice from 1989-93. From 1986-89 and 1993-2003, he practiced law in
    Washington, DC. He was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals
    for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2003. President George W. Bush
    nominated him as Chief Justice of the United States, and he took his
    seat September 29, 2005.

        ANTHONY M. KENNEDY, Associate Justice, was born in Sacramento, CA,
    July 23, 1936. He married Mary Davis and has three children. He received
    his B.A. from Stanford University and the London School of Economics,
    and his LL.B. from Harvard Law School. He was in private practice in San
    Francisco, CA, from 1961-63, as well as in Sacramento, CA, from 1963-75.
    From 1965 to 1988, he was a Professor of Constitutional Law at the
    McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific. He has served in
    numerous positions during his career, including a member of the
    California Army National Guard in 1961, the board of the Federal
    Judicial Center from 1987-88, and two committees of the Judicial
    Conference of the United States: the Advisory Panel on Financial
    Disclosure Reports and Judicial Activities, subsequently renamed the
    Advisory Committee on Codes of Conduct, from 1979-87, and the Committee
    on Pacific Territories from 1979-90, which he chaired from 1982-90. He
    was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth
    Circuit in 1975. President Reagan nominated him as an Associate Justice
    of the Supreme Court, and he took his seat February 18, 1988.

        CLARENCE THOMAS, Associate Justice, was born in the Pin Point
    community near Savannah, Georgia on June 23, 1948. He attended
    Conception Seminary from 1967-68 and received an A.B., cum laude, from
    Holy Cross College in 1971 and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1974. He
    was admitted to law practice in Missouri in 1974, and served as an
    Assistant Attorney General of Missouri, 1974-77; an attorney with the
    Monsanto Company, 1977-79; and Legislative Assistant to Senator John
    Danforth, 1979-81. From 1981-82, he served as Assistant Secretary for
    Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education, and as Chairman of the U.S.
    Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1982-90. From 1990-91, he
    served as a Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District
    of Columbia Circuit. President Bush nominated him as an Associate
    Justice of the Supreme Court and he took his seat October 23, 1991. He
    married Virginia Lamp on May 30, 1987 and has one child, Jamal Adeen by
    a previous marriage.

        RUTH BADER GINSBURG, Associate Justice, was born in Brooklyn, NY,
    March 15, 1933. She married Martin D. Ginsburg in 1954, and has a
    daughter, Jane, and a son, James. She received her B.A. from Cornell
    University, attended Harvard Law School, and received her LL.B. from
    Columbia Law School. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable Edmund
    L. Palmieri, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern
    District of New York, from 1959-61. From 1961-63, she was a research
    associate and then Associate Director of the Columbia Law School Project
    on International Procedure. She was a Professor of Law at Rutgers
    University School of Law from 1963-72, and Columbia Law School from

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    1972-80, and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral
    Sciences in Stanford, CA, from 1977-78. In 1971, she was instrumental in
    launching the Women's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties
    Union, and served as the ACLU's General Counsel from 1973-80, and on the
    National Board of Directors from 1974-80. She was appointed a Judge of
    the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
    in 1980. President Clinton nominated her as an Associate Justice of the
    Supreme Court, and she took her seat August 10, 1993.

        STEPHEN G. BREYER, Associate Justice, was born in San Francisco, CA,
    August 15, 1938. He married Joanna Hare in 1967, and has three children,
    Chloe, Nell, and Michael. He received an A.B. from Stanford University,
    a B.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford, and an LL.B. from Harvard Law
    School. He served as a law clerk to Justice Arthur Goldberg of the
    Supreme Court of the United States during the 1964 term, as a Special
    Assistant to the Assistant U.S. Attorney General for Antitrust, 1965-67,
    as an Assistant Special Prosecutor of the Watergate Special Prosecution
    Force, 1973, as Special Counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee,
    1974-75, and as Chief Counsel of the committee, 1979-80. He was an
    Assistant Professor, Professor of Law, and Lecturer at Harvard Law
    School, 1967-94, a Professor at the Harvard University Kennedy School of
    Government, 1977-80, and a Visiting Professor at the College of Law,
    Sydney, Australia, and at the University of Rome. From 1980-90, he
    served as a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First
    Circuit, and as its Chief Judge, 1990-94. He also served as a member of
    the Judicial Conference of the United States, 1990-94, and of the United
    States Sentencing Commission, 1985-89. President Clinton nominated him
    as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and he took his seat
    August 3, 1994.

        SAMUEL ANTHONY ALITO, Jr., Associate Justice, was born in Trenton,
    NJ, April 1, 1950. He married Martha-Ann Bomgardner in 1985, and has two
    children, Philip and Laura. He served as a law clerk for Leonard I.
    Garth of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from
    1976-77. He was Assistant U.S. Attorney, District of New Jersey, 1977-
    81, Assistant to the Solicitor General, U.S. Department of Justice,
    1981-85, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice,
    1985-87, and U.S. Attorney, District of New Jersey, 1987-90. He was
    appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in
    1990. President George W. Bush nominated him as an Associate Justice of
    the Supreme Court, and he took his seat January 31, 2006.

        SONIA SOTOMAYOR, Associate Justice, was born in Bronx, NY, June 25,
    1954. She earned a B.A. in 1976 from Princeton University, graduating
    summa cum laude and receiving the university's highest academic honor.
    In 1979, she earned a J.D. from Yale Law School where she served as an
    editor of the Yale Law Journal. She served as Assistant District
    Attorney in the New York County District Attorney's Office from 1979-84.
    She then litigated international commercial matters in New York City at
    Pavia & Harcourt, where she served as an associate and then partner from
    1984-92. In 1991, President George H.W. Bush nominated her to the U.S.
    District Court Southern District of New York, and she served in that
    role from 1992-98. She served as a judge on the United States Court of
    Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1998-2009. President Barack Obama
    nominated her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on May 26,
    2009, and she assumed this role August 8, 2009.

        ELENA KAGAN, Associate Justice, was born in New York, New York, on
    April 28, 1960. She received an A.B. from Princeton in 1981, an M.Phil.
    from Oxford in 1983, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1986. She
    clerked for Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C.
    Circuit from 1986-87 and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S.
    Supreme Court during the 1987 Term. After briefly practicing law at a
    Washington, DC, law firm, she became a law professor, first at the
    University of Chicago Law School and later at Harvard Law School. She
    also served for four years in the Clinton Administration, as Associate
    Counsel to the President and then as Deputy Assistant to the President
    for Domestic Policy. Between 2003 and 2009, she served as the Dean of
    Harvard Law School. In 2009, President Obama nominated her as the
    Solicitor General of the United States. A year later, the President
    nominated her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on May 10,
    2010. She took her seat on August 7, 2010.

        NEIL M. GORSUCH, Associate Justice, was born in Denver, CO, August
    29, 1967. He and his wife Louise have two daughters. He received a B.A.
    from Columbia University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and a D.Phil.
    from Oxford University. He served as a law clerk to Judge David B.
    Sentelle of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of
    Columbia Circuit, and as a law clerk to Justice Byron White and Justice
    Anthony M. Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the United States. From 1995-
    2005, he was in private practice, and from 2005-06 he was Principal
    Deputy Associate Attorney General at the

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    U.S. Department of Justice. He was appointed to the United States Court
    of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in 2006. He served on the Standing
    Committee on Rules for Practice and Procedure of the U.S. Judicial
    Conference, and as chairman of the Advisory Committee on Rules of
    Appellate Procedure. He taught at the University of Colorado Law School.
    President Donald J. Trump nominated him as an Associate Justice of the
    Supreme Court, and he took his seat on April 10, 2017.

                           RETIRED ASSOCIATE JUSTICES

        SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR (Retired), Associate Justice, was born in El
    Paso, TX, March 26, 1930. She married John Jay O'Connor III in 1952 and
    has three sons, Scott, Brian, and Jay. She received her B.A. and LL.B.
    from Stanford University. She served as Deputy County Attorney of San
    Mateo County, CA, from 1952-53 and as a civilian attorney for
    Quartermaster Market Center, Frankfurt, Germany, from 1954-57. From
    1958-60, she practiced law in Maryvale, AZ, and served as Assistant
    Attorney General of Arizona from 1965-69. She was appointed to the
    Arizona State Senate in 1969 and was subsequently reelected to two two-
    year terms. In 1975, she was elected Judge of the Maricopa County
    Superior Court and served until 1979, when she was appointed to the
    Arizona Court of Appeals. President Reagan nominated her as an Associate
    Justice of the Supreme Court, and she took her seat September 25, 1981.
    Justice O'Connor retired from the Supreme Court on January 31, 2006.

        DAVID H. SOUTER (Retired), Associate Justice, was born in Melrose,
    MA, September 17, 1939. He graduated from Harvard College, from which he
    received his A.B. After two years as a Rhodes Scholar at Magdalen
    College, Oxford, he received an A.B. in Jurisprudence from Oxford
    University and an M.A. in 1989. After receiving an LL.B. from Harvard
    Law School, he was an associate at Orr and Reno in Concord, NH, from
    1966 to 1968, when he became an Assistant Attorney General of New
    Hampshire. In 1971, he became Deputy Attorney General and in 1976,
    Attorney General of New Hampshire. In 1978, he was named an Associate
    Justice of the Superior Court of New Hampshire, and was appointed to the
    Supreme Court of New Hampshire as an Associate Justice in 1983. He
    became a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First
    Circuit on May 25, 1990. President Bush nominated him as an Associate
    Justice of the Supreme Court, and he took his seat October 9, 1990.
    Justice Souter retired from the Supreme Court on June 29, 2009.

        JOHN PAUL STEVENS (Retired), Associate Justice, was born in Chicago,
    IL, April 20, 1920. He married Maryan Mulholland, and has four children,
    John Joseph (deceased), Kathryn, Elizabeth Jane, and Susan Roberta. He
    received an A.B. from the University of Chicago, and a J.D. from
    Northwestern University School of Law. He served in the United States
    Navy from 1942-45, and was a law clerk to Justice Wiley Rutledge of the
    Supreme Court of the United States during the 1947 term. He was admitted
    to law practice in Illinois in 1949. He was Associate Counsel to the
    Subcommittee on the Study of Monopoly Power of the Judiciary Committee
    of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1951-52, and a member of the
    Attorney General's National Committee to Study Antitrust Law, 1953-55.
    He was Second Vice President of the Chicago Bar Association in 1970.
    From 1970-75, he served as a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals
    for the Seventh Circuit. President Ford nominated him as an Associate
    Justice of the Supreme Court, and he took his seat December 19, 1975.
    Justice Stevens retired from the Supreme Court on June 29, 2010.

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                          Officers of the Supreme Court

        Counselor to the Chief Justice.--Jeffrey P. Minear.
        Clerk.--Scott S. Harris.
        Librarian.--Linda Maslow.
        Marshal.--Pamela Talkin.
        Reporter of Decisions.--Christine L. Fallon.
        Court Counsel.--Ethan V. Torrey.
        Curator.--Catherine E. Fitts.
        Director of Information Technology.--Robert J. Hawkins.
        Public Information Officer.--Kathleen L. Arberg.