On the Supreme Court

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John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice of the United States, nominated by
George W Bush
was born in Buffalo, New York, January 27, 1955. He married Jane Marie
Sullivan in 1996 and 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. He served as a law clerk for Judge Henry J. Friendly
of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from
1979–1980 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 1981–1982, Associate Counsel to President Ronald Reagan,
White House Counsel’s Office from 1982–1986, and Principal Deputy
Solicitor General, U.S. Department of Justice from 1989–1993. From
1986–1989 and 1993–2003, he practiced law in Washington, D.C. 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

Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice, nominated by Ronald Reagan
was born in Trenton, New Jersey, March 11, 1936. He married Maureen
McCarthy and has nine children - Ann Forrest, Eugene, John Francis,
Catherine Elisabeth, Mary Clare, Paul David, Matthew, Christopher James,
and Margaret Jane. He received his A.B. from Georgetown University and
the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and his LL.B. from Harvard Law
School, and was a Sheldon Fellow of Harvard University from 1960–1961.
He was in private practice in Cleveland, Ohio from 1961–1967, a
Professor of Law at the University of Virginia from 1967–1971, and a
Professor of Law at the University of Chicago from 1977–1982, and a
Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University and Stanford
University. He was chairman of the American Bar Association’s Section of
Administrative Law, 1981–1982, and its Conference of Section Chairmen,
1982–1983. He served the federal government as General Counsel of the
Office of Telecommunications Policy from 1971–1972, Chairman of the
Administrative Conference of the United States from 1972–1974, and
Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel from
1974–1977. He was appointed Judge of the United States Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1982. President Reagan nominated
him as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and he took his seat
September 26, 1986.

Anthony M. Kennedy, Associate Justice, nominated by Ronald Reagan
was born in Sacramento, California, 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,
California from 1961–1963, as well as in Sacramento, California from
1963–1975. 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 1987–1988, 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 1979–1987, and the
Committee on Pacific Territories from 1979–1990, which he chaired from
1982–1990. 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, nominated by George W Bush
was born in the Pin Point community of Georgia near Savannah June 23,
1948. He married Virginia Lamp in 1987 and has one child, Jamal Adeen,
by a previous marriage. He attended Conception Seminary and received an
A.B., cum laude, from Holy Cross College, 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 from 1974–1977, an
attorney with the Monsanto Company from 1977–1979, and Legislative
Assistant to Senator John Danforth from 1979–1981. From 1981–1982, he
served as Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of
Education, and as Chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission from 1982–1990. He became a Judge of the United States Court
of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1990. President Bush
nominated him as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and he took
his seat October 23, 1991.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice, nominated by William J Clinton
was 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
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 1959–1961.
From 1961–1963, 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
1963–1972, 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, 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 1973–1980, and on the National
Board of Directors from 1974–1980. 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, nominated by William J Clinton
was born in San Francisco, California, 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, 1965–1967, as an Assistant Special
Prosecutor of the Watergate Special Prosecution Force, 1973, as Special
Counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, 1974–1975, and as Chief
Counsel of the committee, 1979–1980. He was an Assistant Professor,
Professor of Law, and Lecturer at Harvard Law School, 1967–1994, a
Professor at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government,
1977–1980, and a Visiting Professor at the College of Law, Sydney,
Australia and at the University of Rome. From 1980–1990, he served as a
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and
as its Chief Judge, 1990–1994. He also served as a member of the
Judicial Conference of the United States, 1990–1994, and of the United
States Sentencing Commission, 1985–1989. 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, nominated by George W Bush
was born in Trenton, New Jersey, 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 1976–1977. He was Assistant U.S.
Attorney, District of New Jersey, 1977–1981, Assistant to the Solicitor
General, U.S. Department of Justice, 1981–1985, Deputy Assistant
Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, 1985–1987, and U.S.
Attorney, District of New Jersey, 1987–1990. 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, nominated by Barack Obama
was 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. 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 1979–1984. She then litigated
international commercial matters in New York City at Pavia & Harcourt,
where she served as an associate and then partner from 1984–1992. 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
1992–1998. 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, nominated by Barack Obama
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 1986-1987 and for
Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court during the 1987
Term. After briefly practicing law at a Washington, D.C. 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. After serving in that role for a year, the President nominated
her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on May 10, 2010. She
took her seat on August 7, 2010.

Out of 9 sitting justices, 4 were nominated by Democrat Presidents and
5 were nominated by Republican Presidents.

There are three Justices who retired in 2006. 2009 & 2010
Sandra Day O'Conner - Nominated by Ronald Reagan
David Souter - Nominated by George Bush
John Stevens - Nominated by Gerald Ford
Our of 12 Justices, 6 were nominated by Republicans
6 were nominated by Democrats