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.