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Page 1: The United States Supreme Court Anthony M. Kennedy Born July 23, 1936 in Sacramento, California. Married Mary Davis, June 29, 1963; Children: Justin

The United States Supreme Court

Page 2: The United States Supreme Court Anthony M. Kennedy Born July 23, 1936 in Sacramento, California. Married Mary Davis, June 29, 1963; Children: Justin

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.

Page 3: The United States Supreme Court Anthony M. Kennedy Born July 23, 1936 in Sacramento, California. Married Mary Davis, June 29, 1963; Children: Justin

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

Page 4: The United States Supreme Court Anthony M. Kennedy Born July 23, 1936 in Sacramento, California. Married Mary Davis, June 29, 1963; Children: Justin

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.

Page 5: The United States Supreme Court Anthony M. Kennedy Born July 23, 1936 in Sacramento, California. Married Mary Davis, June 29, 1963; Children: Justin

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.

Page 6: The United States Supreme Court Anthony M. Kennedy Born July 23, 1936 in Sacramento, California. Married Mary Davis, June 29, 1963; Children: Justin

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

Page 7: The United States Supreme Court Anthony M. Kennedy Born July 23, 1936 in Sacramento, California. Married Mary Davis, June 29, 1963; Children: Justin

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.

Page 8: The United States Supreme Court Anthony M. Kennedy Born July 23, 1936 in Sacramento, California. Married Mary Davis, June 29, 1963; Children: Justin

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

Page 9: The United States Supreme Court Anthony M. Kennedy Born July 23, 1936 in Sacramento, California. Married Mary Davis, June 29, 1963; Children: Justin

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.