Current Supreme Court Judges (Part 2)

This is a continuation of a previous post, which became extremely long as I added more and more information. I decided to split it into two parts, but you can still count it as one post.

Associate Justice - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

 

Born in Brooklyn, New York, March 15, 1933. She married Martin D. Ginsburg in 1954, and has a daughter, Jane, and a son, James. She was a Professor of Law at Rutgers University School of Law from 1963–1972, and Columbia Law School from 1972–1980, and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California from 1977–1978. In 1971, and she was one of the people who helped with the launching the Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. President Clinton nominated her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and she took her seat August 10, 1993. She is one of the three Jewish justices in the Court, the only other religion aside from Roman Catholicism practiced by the members of the current Court. She is also the second female Supreme Court Justice, after Sarah Day O'Connor.

Associate Justice - Stephen G. Breyer

 

Born in San Francisco, California, August 15, 1938. He married Joanna Hare in 1967, and has three children - Chloe, Nell, and Michael. From 1980–1990, he served as a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and as its Chief Judge, from 1990–1994. President Clinton nominated him as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and he took his seat August 3, 1994. He is also Jewish.

Associate Justice - Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr.

 

Born in Trenton, New Jersey, April 1, 1950. He married Martha-Ann Bomgardner in 1985, and has two children - Philip and Laura. 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. He Practices Roman Catholicism.

Associate Justice - Sonia Sotomayor

 

Born in Bronx, New York, on 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. She litigated international commercial matters in New York City at Pavia & Harcourt, where she served as an associate and then partner from 1984–1992. 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. She is Roman Catholic.

Associate Justice - Elena Kagan

 

Born in New York, New York, on April 28, 1960. She 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. President Obama nominated her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on May 10, 2010.  She took her seat on August 7, 2010. She is Jewish.