Congressional Directory for the 117th Congress (2021-2022), October 2022.
[Pages 859-862]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


                             JUDICIAL BRANCH

                    SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

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      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.

     CLARENCE THOMAS, Associate Justice, was born in the Pinpoint 
community near Savannah, GA, June 23, 1948. He attended Conception 
Seminary from 1967-68 and received an A.B., cum laude, from College of 
the Holy Cross 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.

      SAMUEL A. 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.


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     ELENA KAGAN, Associate Justice, was born in New York, NY, 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 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.

     BRETT M. KAVANAUGH, Associate Justice, was born in Washington, DC, 
February 12, 1965. He married Ashley Estes in 2004, and they have two 
daughters--Margaret and Liza. He received a B.A. from Yale College in 
1987 and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1990. He served as a law clerk 
for Judge Walter Stapleton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third 
Circuit from 1990-91, for Judge Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of 
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1991-92, and for Justice Anthony M. 
Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court during the 1993 Term. In 1992-93, he 
was an attorney in the Office of the Solicitor General of the United 
States. From 1994-97 and for a period in 1998, he was Associate Counsel 
in the Office of Independent Counsel. He was a partner at a Washington, 
DC, law firm from 1997-98 and again from 1999-2001. From 2001-03, he was 
Associate Counsel and then Senior Associate Counsel to President George 
W. Bush. From 2003-06, he was Assistant to the President and Staff 
Secretary for President Bush. He was appointed a Judge of the United 
States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2006. 
President Donald J. Trump nominated him as an Associate Justice of the 
Supreme Court, and he took his seat on October 6, 2018.

     AMY CONEY BARRETT, Associate Justice, was born in New Orleans, LA, 
January 28, 1972. She married Jesse M. Barrett in 1999, and they have 
seven children: Emma, Vivian, Tess, John Peter, Liam, Juliet, and 
Benjamin. She received a B.A. from Rhodes College in 1994 and a J.D. 
from Notre Dame Law School in 1997. She served as a law clerk for Judge 
Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit 
from 1997 to 1998, and for Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court 
of the United States during the 1998 Term. After two years in private 
law practice in Washington, D.C., she became a law professor, joining 
the faculty of Notre Dame Law School in 2002. She was appointed a Judge 
of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in 2017. 
President Donald J. Trump nominated her as an Associate Justice of the 
Supreme Court, and she took her seat on October 27, 2020.

     KETANJI BROWN JACKSON, Associate Justice, was born in Washington, 
D.C., on September 14, 1970. She married Patrick Jackson in 1996, and 
they have two daughters. She received an A.B., magna cum laude, from 
Harvard-Radcliffe College in 1992, and a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard 
Law School in 1996. She served as a law clerk for Judge Patti B. Saris 
of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts from 1996 
to 1997, Judge Bruce M. Selya of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First 
Circuit from 1997 to 1998, and Justice Stephen G. Breyer of the Supreme 
Court of the United States during the 1999 Term. After three years in 
private practice, she worked as an attorney at the U.S. Sentencing 
Commission from 2003 to 2005. From 2005 to 2007, she served as an 
assistant federal public defender in Washington, D.C., and from 2007 to 
2010, she was in private practice. She served as a Vice Chair and 
Commissioner on the U.S. Sentencing Commission from 2010 to 2014. In 
2012, President Barack Obama nominated her to the

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U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, where she served from 
2013 to 2021. She was appointed to the Defender Services Committee of 
the Judicial Conference of the United States in 2017, and the Supreme 
Court Fellows Commission in 2019. President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., 
appointed her to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of 
Columbia Circuit in 2021 and then nominated her as an Associate Justice 
of the Supreme Court in 2022. She took her seat on June 30, 2022.

                        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.

     ANTHONY M. KENNEDY, (Retired), 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 1965-88, 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, 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. 
Justice Kennedy retired from the Supreme Court on July 31, 2018.

     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.

     STEPHEN G. BREYER, (Retired), 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

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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. Justice Breyer retired from 
the Supreme Court on June 30, 2022.

                       Officers of the Supreme Court

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