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.