Documents for "Supreme Court: Biographies":

• Black, Hugo LaFayette 1886-1971, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1937-71), b. Harlan, Clay co., Ala. He received his law degree from the Univ. of Alabama in 1906. He practiced law and held local offices...

• Blackmun, Harry Andrew 1908-99, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1970-94), b. Nashville, Ill. Educated at Harvard, he practiced law privately, was general counsel to the Mayo Clinic (1950-59), then became a...

• Brandeis, Louis Dembitz 1856-1941, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1916-39), b. Louisville, Ky., grad. Harvard law school, 1877. A successful Boston lawyer (1879-1916), Brandeis distinguished himself by...

• Brennan, William Joseph, Jr. 1906-97, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1956-90), b. Newark, N.J. After receiving his law degree from Harvard, he practiced law in Newark. He served as a New Jersey superior court...

• Breyer, Stephen Gerald 1938-, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1994-), b. San Francisco. A graduate of Stanford and Oxford universities and of Harvard Law School (1964), he clerked (1964-65) for Supreme...

• Burger, Warren Earl 1907-95, American jurist, fifteenth Chief Justice of the United States (1969-86), b. St. Paul, Minn. After receiving his law degree in 1931 from St. Paul College of Law (now Mitchell College of...

• Cardozo, Benjamin Nathan 1870-1938, American jurist, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1932-38), b. New York City. Educated at Columbia Univ., he practiced law until he was elected (1913) to the New York...

• Clark, Tom Campbell 1899-1977, U.S. Attorney General (1945-49), associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1949-67), b. Dallas, Tex.; father of Ramsey Clark. He received his law degree from the Univ. of Texas. Clark joined the Justice Dept. (1937) as a special assistant to the attorney general. He coordinated the forced wartime relocation of West Coast...

• Curtis, Benjamin Robbins 1809-74, American jurist, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1851-57), b. Watertown, Mass. After studying law at Harvard, he practiced at Northfield, Mass., and served in the state...

• Davis, David 1815-86, American jurist, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1862-77), b. Cecil co., Md., grad. Kenyon College, 1832; cousin of Henry Winter Davis. In 1836 he settled as a lawyer in...

• Douglas, William Orville 1898-1980, American jurist, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1939-75), b. Maine, Minn. He received his law degree from Columbia in 1925 and later was professor of law at Yale. A...

• Fortas, Abe 1910-82, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1965-69), b. Memphis, Tenn. After receiving his law degree from Yale in 1933, he taught there (1933-37) and also held a variety of government...

• Frankfurter, Felix 1882-1965, American jurist, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1939-62), b. Vienna, Austria. He emigrated to the United States as a boy and later received (1906) his law degree from...

• Ginsburg, Ruth (Joan) Bader 1933-, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1993-), b. Brooklyn, N.Y. A graduate (1954) of Cornell Univ., she attended Harvard Law School, then transferred to Columbia Law School,...

• Goldberg, Arthur 1908-90, American labor lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1962-65), b. Chicago. He received his law degree from Northwestern Univ. in 1929. A corporation lawyer, he...

• Harlan, John Marshall 1833-1911, American jurist, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1877-1911), b. Boyle co., Ky., grad. Centre College, 1850. Admitted to the bar in 1853, he served in the Civil War as a...

• Harlan, John Marshall 1899-1971, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1955-71), b. Chicago; grandson of John Marshall Harlan. He received his law degree from New York Law School and was admitted to the bar in...

• Holmes, Oliver Wendell 1841-1935, American jurist, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1902-32), b. Boston; son of the writer Oliver Wendell Holmes. He served (1861-64) with distinction in the Civil War, took a...

• Hughes, Charles Evans 1862-1948, American statesman and jurist, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1910-16), U.S. Secretary of State (1921-25), and eleventh Chief Justice of the United States (1930-41), b...

• Jackson, Robert Houghwout 1892-1954, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1941-54), b. Spring Creek, Pa. Despite the fact that he did not have a law degree, he was admitted to the bar in 1913 after a brief period...

• Kennedy, Anthony McLeod 1936-, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1988-), b. Sacramento, Calif. He graduated from Stanford Univ. (1958) and Harvard Law School (1961). For many years (1965-88) he taught at the...

• Marshall, John 1755-1835, American jurist, 4th Chief Justice of the United States (1801-35), b. Virginia.

• Marshall, Thurgood 1908-93, U.S. lawyer and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1967-91), b. Baltimore. He received his law degree from Howard Univ. in 1933. In 1936 he joined the legal staff of the National...

• McKenna, Joseph 1843-1926, American jurist, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1898-1925), b. Philadelphia. Admitted to the bar in 1865, he practiced law in California and served in the state legislature...

• McReynolds, James Clark 1862-1946, U.S. Attorney General (1913-14) and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1914-41), b. Elkton, Ky. He received his law degree from the Univ. of Virginia in 1884. He was a...

• O'Connor, Sandra Day 1930-, U.S. lawyer and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1981-2006), b. El Paso, Tex. Graduating from Stanford law school (1952), she returned to practice in her home state of Arizona...

• Powell, Lewis Franklin, Jr. 1907-98, American lawyer, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1971-87), b. Suffolk, Va. He studied law at Washington and Lee Univ. and was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1931. He had a...

• Reed, Stanley Forman 1884-1980, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1938-57), b. Macon co., Ky. After receiving the B.A. degree from both Kentucky Wesleyan (1902) and Yale (1906), he studied law at the Univ...

• Rehnquist, William Hubbs 1924-2005, American public official, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1986-2005), b. Milwaukee, Wis., as William Donald Rehnquist. After receiving his law degree from Stanford Univ. in...

• Roberts, John Glover, Jr. 1955-, American public official, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (2005-) b. Buffalo, N.Y., grad. Harvard (B.A. 1976, J.D. 1979). He clerked (1980-81) for Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist before serving in the Reagan administration as special assistant to the attorney general (1981-82) and associate counsel to the president (1982-86). From 1986 on, he was in private practice except...

• Roberts, Owen Josephus 1875-1955, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1930-45), b. Philadelphia. After receiving (1898) his law degree from the Univ. of Pennsylvania, he practiced law in Philadelphia, taught...

• Scalia, Antonin 1936-, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1986-), b. Trenton, N.J. He graduated from Harvard Law School (1960) and subsequently taught law at the Univ. of Virginia (1967-71) and the Univ...

• Souter, David Hackett 1939-, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1990-), b. Melrose, Mass. A graduate of the Harvard Law School, he served as New Hampshire's attorney general (1976-78), and on the state's...

• Stevens, John Paul 1920-, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1975-). After receiving his law degree from Northwestern Univ. (1947), he clerked with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Wiley Rutledge (1947-48). After...

• Stewart, Potter 1915-85, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1958-81), b. Jackson, Mich. After receiving (1941) his law degree from Yale, he was admitted to the Ohio bar. He later practiced law in...

• Taney, Roger Brooke 1777-1864, American jurist, fifth Chief Justice of the United States (1836-64), b. Calvert co., Md., grad. Dickinson College, 1795.

• Thomas, Clarence 1948-, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1991-), b. Pin Point (Savannah), Ga. Raised in a poor family, he graduated (1974) from the Yale Law School and became a prominent black...

• Van Devanter, Willis 1859-1941, American jurist, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1910-37), b. Marion, Ind. He practiced law (1881-84) in Indiana and, after he removed to Wyoming, became (1889) chief...

• Vinson, Frederick Moore 1890-1953, 13th Chief Justice of the United States (1946-53), b. Louisa, Ky. He received his law degree from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky (1911). He served (1923-29, 1931-38) in the U.S...

• Waite, Morrison Remick 1816-88, American jurist, seventh Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1874-88), b. Lyme, Conn. Admitted to the bar in 1839, he became prominent when he represented the United States in...

• Warren, Earl 1891-1974, American public official and 14th Chief Justice of the United States (1953-69), b. Los Angeles. He graduated from the Univ. of California Law School in 1912. Admitted (1914) to the bar,...

• White, Byron Raymond 1917-2002, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1962-93), b. Fort Collins, Colo. An All-America football player nicknamed "Whizzer" who later starred as a professional, White was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa at the Univ. of Colorado, from which he graduated as valedictorian in 1938. He then went to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar...

• White, Edward Douglass 1845-1921, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1894-1910), ninth Chief Justice of the United States (1910-21), b. Lafourche parish, La. He attended the Jesuit College in New Orleans and...

• Whittaker, Charles Evans 1901-73, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1957-62), b. Troy, Kans. He received his law degree from the Univ. of Kansas City in 1924 and practiced law for many years. He served as judge...

• Woodbury, Levi 1789-1851, American cabinet officer and jurist, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1845-51), b. Hillsboro, co., N.H. Important as a politician and jurist in New Hampshire, he served as...