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The United States Supreme Court

Anthony M. Kennedy• Born July 23, 1936 in

Sacramento, California. Married Mary Davis, June 29, 1963; Children: Justin Anthony, Gregory Davis, and Kristin

• Stanford University, 1954-57; London School of Economics, 1957-58; Stanford University, B.A., 1958; Harvard Law School, LL.B., 1961.

• Nominated by President Reagan as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court; took oath of office February 18, 1988.

David H. Souter• Born September 17, 1939

in Melrose, Massachusetts, son of Joseph Alexander and Helen Adams Hackett Souter.

• Harvard College, A.B. 1961, Phi Beta Kappa, selected Rhodes Scholar; Magdalen College, Oxford, 1963, A.B. in

- Nominated by George Bush Sr. as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in 1990

Clarence Thomas• Born June 28, 1948 in the

Pinpoint community, near Savannah, Georgia. Married Virginia Lamp, May 30, 1987. Child: Jamal Adeen.

• Conception Seminary, 1967-1968: Holy Cross College, A.B. cum laude. Alpha Sigma Nu, Purple Key. Yale Law School, J.D., 1974.

• Nominated by President Bush as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court: took oath of office October 23, 1991.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg• Ruth Bader Ginsburg was

born March 15, 1933, in Brooklyn, New York. In 1954, she married Martin D. Ginsburg.

• Cornell University,, B.A. 1954, with high honors in Government Law schools: attended Harvard Law School (1956-58), Columbia Law School,1959

• Nominated by President Clinton as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on August 10, 1993.

Stephen G. Breyer• Stephen Breyer was born August 15,

1938, in San Francisco, California, He married Joanna Hare, September 4, 1967. They have three children:

• Attended public elementary and high schools (Lowell High School) in San Francisco;

• Stanford University, A.B. 1959, Harvard Law School, 1964.

• Nominated by President Clinton as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on August 3, 1994

Antonin Scalia• Born March 11, 1936 in Trenton,

NJ. Married Maureen McCarthy, September 10, 1960. They have 10 children

• Georgetown University and University of Fribourg (Switzerland), A.B., 1957;

• Nominated by President Reagan as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court; took oath of office September 26, 1986.

John P. Stevens• Born April 20, 1920 in Chicago,

Illinois. Married Elizabeth Jane Sheeren June 1942; Married, Maryan Mulholland Simon, December 1979. Children: John Joseph, Kathryn Stevens Jedlicka, Elizabeth Jane and Susan Roberta.

• College: University of Chicago, 1941; Law School: Northwestern University Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, 1947;

• Nominated by President Ford as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on December 1, 1975

John Roberts• Chief Justice of the United States• born in Buffalo, New York,

January 27, 1955. • He married Jane Marie Sullivan

in 1996; they have two children— Josephine and John.

• He received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1976 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1979.

• President George W. Bush nominated him as Chief Justice of the United States, and he took his seat on September 29, 2005.

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