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JUDICIARY
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
One First Street NE 20543, phone 479-3000
WILLIAM HUBBS REHNQUIST, Chief Justice of the United States; born in
Milwaukee, WI, October 1, 1924; son of William Benjamin and Margery Peck
Rehnquist; married to Natalie Cornell of San Diego, CA; children: James,
Janet, and Nancy, member of Faith Lutheran Church, Arlington, VA; served
in the U.S. Army Air Corps in this country and overseas from 1943-46;
discharged with the rank of sergeant; Stanford University, B.A., M.A.,
1948; Harvard University, M.A., 1950; Stanford University, LL.B., 1952,
ranking first in class; Order of the Coif; member of the Board of
Editors of the Stanford Law Review; law clerk for Justice Robert H.
Jackson, Supreme Court of the United States, 1952-53; private practice
of law, Phoenix, AZ, 1953-69; engaged in a general practice of law with
primary emphasis on civil litigation; appointed Assistant Attorney
General, Office of Legal Counsel, by President Nixon in January 1969;
nominated Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States by
President Nixon on October 21, 1971, confirmed December 10, 1971, sworn
in on January 7, 1972; nominated by President Reagan as Chief Justice of
the United States on June 17, 1986; sworn in on September 26, 1986.
JOHN PAUL STEVENS, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States; born in Chicago, IL, April 20, 1920; son of Ernest James
and Elizabeth Street Stevens; A.B., University of Chicago, 1941, Phi
Beta Kappa, Psi Upsilon; J.D. (magna cum laude), Northwestern
University, 1947, Order of the Coif, Phi Delta Phi, co-editor, Illinois
Law Review; married to Maryan Mulholland; children: John Joseph, Kathryn
Jedlicka, Elizabeth Jane Sesemann, and Susan Roberta Mullen; entered
active duty U.S. Navy in 1942, released as Lt. Commander in 1945 after
WW II service, Bronz Star; law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Wiley
Rutledge, 1947-48; admitted to Illinois bar, 1949; practiced law in
Chicago, Poppenhusen, Johnston, Thompson and Raymond, 1949-52; associate
counsel, Subcommittee on the Study of Monopoly Power, Judiciary
Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1951-52; partner,
Rothschild, Stevens, Barry and Myers, Chicago, 1952-70; member of the
Attorney General's National Committee to Study Antitrust Laws, 1953-55;
lecturer in Antitrust Law, Northwestern University School of Law, 1950-
54, and University of Chicago Law School, 1955-58; chief counsel,
Illinois Supreme Court Special Commission to Investigate Integrity of
the Judgment of People v. Isaacs, 1969; appointed U.S. Circuit Judge for
the Seventh Circuit, October 14, 1970, entering on duty November 2,
1970, and serving until becoming an Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court; nominated to the Supreme Court December 1, 1975, by President
Ford; confirmed by the Senate December 17, 1975; sworn in on December
19, 1975.
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States; born in El Paso, TX, March 26, 1930; daughter of Harry A.
and Ada Mae Wilkey Day; A.B. (with great distinction), Stanford
University, 1950; LL.B., Stanford Law School, 1952; Order of the Coif,
Board of Editors, Stanford Law Review; married to John Jay O'Connor III,
1952; children: Scott, Brian, and Jay; deputy county attorney, San Mateo
County, CA, 1952-53; civilian attorney for Quartermaster Market Center,
Frankfurt, Germany, 1954-57; private practice of law in Maryvale, AZ,
1958-60; assistant attorney general, Arizona, 1965-69; elected to the
Arizona State senate, 1969-75; senate majority leader, 1974 and 1975;
chairman of the State, County, and Municipal Affairs Committee in 1972
and 1973; also served on the Legislative Council, on the Probate Code
Commission, and on the Arizona Advisory Council on Intergovernmental
Relations; elected judge of the Maricopa County Superior Court, Phoenix,
AZ, 1975-79; appointed to the Arizona Court of Appeals by Gov. Bruce
Babbitt, 1979-81; nominated by President Reagan as Associate Justice of
the U.S. Supreme Court on July 7, 1981; confirmed by the U.S. Senate on
September 22, 1981; and sworn in on September 25, 1981; member, National
Board of Smithsonian Associates, 1981-present; president, board of
trustees, The Heard Museum, 1968-74, 1976-81; member:
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Salvation Army Advisory Board, 1975-81, board of trustees, Stanford
University, 1976-81, Board of Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1988 to
present.
ANTONIN SCALIA, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States; born in Trenton, NJ, March 11, 1936; LL.B., Harvard Law School,
1960; note editor, Harvard Law Review; Sheldon fellow, Harvard
University, 1960-61; married to Maureen McCarthy, September 10, 1960;
children: Ann Forrest; Eugene, John Francis, Catherine Elisabeth, Mary
Clare, Paul David, Matthew, Christopher James, and Margaret Jane;
admitted to practice in Ohio (1962) and Virginia (1970); in private
practice with Jones, Day, Cockley, and Reavis (Cleveland, OH), 1961-67;
professor of law, University of Virginia Law School, 1967-74 (on leave
1971-74); general counsel, Office of Telecommunications Policy,
Executive Office of the President, 1971-72; chairman, Administrative
Conference of the United States, 1972-74; Assistant Attorney General,
Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice, 1974-77; scholar in
residence, American Enterprise Institute, 1977; professor of law,
University of Chicago, 1977-82; appointed by President Reagan as Circuit
Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit;
sworn in on August 17, 1982; appointed by President Reagan as Associate
Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; sworn in on September 26, 1986.
ANTHONY M. KENNEDY, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States, born in Sacramento, CA, July 23, 1936; son of Anthony
James and Gladys McLeod Kennedy; married to Mary Davis, June 29, 1963;
children: Justin Anthony, Gregory Davis, and Kristin Marie; Stanford
University, 1954-57; London School of Economics, 1957-58; B.A., Stanford
University, 1958; LL.B., Harvard Law School, 1961; associate, Thelen,
Marrin, Johnson and Bridges, San Francisco, 1961-63; sole practitioner,
Sacramento, 1963-67; partner, Evans, Jackson and Kennedy, Sacramento,
1967-75; professor of constitutional law, McGeorge School of Law,
University of the Pacific, 1965-88; California Army National Guard,
1961; member: the Judicial Conference of the United States' Advisory
Panel on Financial Disclosure Reports and Judicial Activities
(subsequently renamed the Advisory Committee of Codes of Conduct), 1979-
87; Committee on Pacific Territories, 1979-90 (chairman, 1982-90); board
of the Federal Judicial Center, 1987-88; nominated by President Ford to
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; sworn in on May 30, 1975;
nominated by President Reagan as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme
Court; sworn in on February 18, 1988.
DAVID HACKETT SOUTER, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States, born in Melrose, MA, September 17, 1939; 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 Jurisprudence, 1989, M.A., 1989; Harvard Law School, LL.B.,
1966; associate, Orr and Reno, Concord, NH, 1966-68; assistant attorney
general of New Hampshire, 1968-71; Deputy Attorney General of New
Hampshire, 1971-76; Attorney General of New Hampshire, 1976-78;
Associate Justice, New Hampshire Superior Court, 1978-83; Associate
Justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court, 1983-90; member: Maine-New
Hampshire Interstate Boundary Commission, 1971-75; New Hampshire Police
Standards and Training Council, 1976-78; New Hampshire Governor's
Commission on Crime and Delinquency, 1976-78; 1979-83; New Hampshire
Judicial Council, 1976-78; Concord Hospital Board of Trustees, 1972-85
(president, 1978-84); New Hampshire Historical Society, 1968-present,
(vice-president, 1980-85, trustee, 1976-85); Dartmouth Medical School,
Board of Overseers, 1981-87; Merrimack County Bar Association, 1966-
present; New Hampshire Bar Association, 1966-present; Honorary Fellow,
American Bar Foundation; Honorary Fellow, American College of Trial
Lawyers; Honorary Master of the Bench, Gray's Inn, London; Honorary
Fellow, Magdalen College, Oxford; Associate, Lowell House, Harvard
College; nominated by President Bush to U.S. Court of Appeals for the
First Circuit; took oath May 25, 1990; nominated by President Bush as
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; took oath of office October
9, 1990.
CLARENCE THOMAS, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States; born in Pin Point, GA (near Savannah), June 23, 1948; son
of M.C. and Leola Thomas; raised by his grandparents, Myers and
Christine Anderson; married to Virginia Lamp, May 30, 1987; son Jamal
Adeen by previous marriage; attended Conception Seminary, 1967-68; A.B.
(cum laude), Holy Cross College, 1971; J.D., Yale Law School, 1974;
admitted to practice in Missouri, 1974; assistant attorney general of
Missouri, 1974-77; attorney in the law department of Monsanto Company,
1977-79; legislative assistant to Senator John Danforth, 1979-81;
Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education,
1981-82; chairman, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1982-
90; nominated by President Bush to U.S. Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit; took oath March 12, 1990; nominated by
President Bush as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; took the
constitutional oath on October 18, 1991 and the judicial oath on October
23, 1991.
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RUTH BADER GINSBURG, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States; born March 15, 1933, Brooklyn, N.Y., the daughter of
Nathan and Celia Amster Bader; married Martin Ginsburg, 1954; two
children: Jane C. and James S.; B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, Cornell
University, 1954; attended Harvard Law School, 1956-58; LL.B., Columbia
Law School, 1959; law clerk to Edmund L. Palmieri, U.S. District Court,
Southern District of New York, 1959-61; Columbia Law School Project on
International Procedure, 1961-62, associate director, 1962-63;
professor, Rutgers University School of Law, 1963-72; professor,
Columbia Law School, 1972-80; Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in
Behavioral Sciences, 1977-78; American Civil Liberties Union, general
counsel, 1973-80; National Board of Directors, 1974-80; Women's Rights
Project, founder and Counsel, 1972-80; American Bar Foundation Board of
Directors, executive committee, secretary, 1979-89; American Bar
Association Board of Editors, 1972-78; ABA Section on Individual Rights
and Responsibilities, council member, 1975-81; American Law Institute,
council member, 1978-93; American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow,
1982-present; Council on Foreign Relations, 1975-present; nominated by
President Carter as a Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia Circuit, sworn in on June 30, 1980; nominated Associate Justice
by President Clinton, June 14, 1993, confirmed by the Senate, August 3,
1993, and sworn in August 10, 1993.
STEPHEN G. BREYER, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States; born in San Francisco, CA, August 15, 1938; son of Irving
G. and Anne R. Breyer; married Joanna Hare, 1967, three children: Chloe,
Nell, and Michael; A.B., Stanford University, 1959; B.A., Oxford
University, Magdalen College, Marshall Scholar, 1961; LL.B., Harvard Law
School, 1964; law clerk to Associate Justice Arthur J. Goldberg of the
Supreme Court of the United States, 1964-65; special assistant to the
Assistant Attorney General (Antitrust), Department of Justice, 1965-67;
Assistant Special Prosecutor of the Watergate Special Prosecution Force,
1973; Special Counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee,
Subcommittee on Administrative Practices, 1974-75; Chief Counsel of the
U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, 1979-80; Professor of Law, Harvard Law
School, 1970-80; (assistant professor, 1967-70; lecturer, 1980-94);
professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1977-80;
Nominated by President Carter as a Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the
First Circuit, sworn in on December 10, 1980; Chief Judge, 1990-94;
member, U.S. Sentencing Commission, 1985-89; member, Judicial Conference
of the United States, 1990-94; nominated Associate Justice by President
Clinton May 13, 1994, confirmed by the Senate July 29, 1994, and sworn
in on August 3, 1994.
Retired Members of the Court
BYRON RAYMOND WHITE, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States; born in Fort Collins, CO, June 8, 1917; son of Alpha
Albert and Maude Burger White; elementary and high school, Wellington,
CO; B.A., University of Colorado, 1938; Rhodes scholar, Oxford, England,
1939; officer, USNR, 1942-46; LL.B., Yale Law School, 1946; married to
Marion Lloyd Stearns of Denver, CO, June 15, 1946; children: Charles
Byron and Nancy Pitkin; law clerk to the Chief Justice of the United
States, 1946-47; associate, Lewis, Grant, Newton, Davis and Henry (now
Davis, Graham and Stubbs), 1947-50, partner, 1950-60; Deputy Attorney
General of the United States, 1961-62; nominated Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court of the United States by President Kennedy on April 3,
1962, confirmed by the Senate on April 11, 1962, and sworn in on April
16, 1962; retired June 28, 1993.
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT TO THE CHIEF JUSTICE
James C. Duff.
OFFICERS OF THE SUPREME COURT
Clerk.--William K. Suter.
Librarian.--Shelley Dowling.
Marshal.--Dale E. Bosley.
Reporter of Decisions.--Frank D. Wagner.
Counsel.--Jane E. Petkofsky.
Curator.--Gail A. Galloway.
Budget and Personnel Officer.--Cyril A. Donnelly.
Public Information Officer.--Kathleen L. Arberg.
Director of Data Systems.--Donna Clement.
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UNITED STATES COURTS OF APPEALS
District of Columbia Judicial Circuit (District of Columbia).--Chief
Judge.--Harry T. Edwards. Circuit Judges: Patricia M. Wald; Laurence
H. Silberman; Stephen F. Williams; Douglas H. Ginsburg; David B.
Sentelle; Karen LeCraft Henderson;
A. Raymond Randolph; Judith W. Rogers; David S. Tatel; Merrick B.
Garland. Senior Circuit Judges: James L. Buckley. Circuit
Executive.--Jill C. Sayenga, 216-7340; Clerk.--Mark J. Langer, 216-
7300, E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse, 333
Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20001-2866.
First Judicial Circuit (Districts of Maine, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, Puerto Rico, and Rhode Island).--Chief Judge.--Juan R.
Torruella. Circuit Judges: Bruce M. Selya; Michael Boudin; Norman H.
Stahl; Sandra L. Lynch. Senior Circuit Judges: Bailey Aldrich; Frank
M. Coffin; Levin H. Campbell; Hugh H. Bownes; Conrad K. Cyr. Chief
Judge, Bankruptcy Appellate Panel.--Arthur N. Votolato, Jr. Judges,
Bankruptcy Appellate Panel: James A. Goodman; James E. Yacos; James
F. Queenan, Jr.; Carol J. Kenner; Enrique S. Lamoutte; Sara E. De
Jesus; James B. Haines, Jr.; William C. Hillman; Joan N. Feeney;
Mark W. Vaughn; Henry J. Boroff; Gerardo A. Carlo-Altieri. Circuit
Executive.--Vincent Flanagan, (617) 223-9613. Clerk.--William H. Ng,
617-223-9057, John W. McCormack Post Office and Courthouse, 90
Devonshire Street, Boston, MA 02109-4590.
Second Judicial Circuit (Districts of Connecticut, New York, and
Vermont). Chief Judge.--Jon O. Newman. Circuit Judges: Amalya Lyle
Kearse; Ralph K. Winter, Jr.; John M. Walker, Jr.; Joseph M.
McLaughlin; Dennis G. Jacobs; Pierre N. Leval; Guido Calabresi;
Jose A. Cabranes; Fred I. Parker. Senior Circuit Judges: J. Edward
Lumbard; Wilfred Feinberg; James L. Oakes; Ellsworth A. Van
Graafeiland; Thomas J. Meskill; Richard J. Cardamone; Roger J.
Miner; Frank X. Altimari. Chief Judge, Bankruptcy Appellate Panel.--
Burton R. Lifland. Judges, Bankruptcy Appellate Panel: Robert L.
Krechevsky; Alan H.W. Shiff; Tina L. Brozman; Francis G. Conrad;
Stephen D. Gerling; Michael J. Kaplan; John Charles Ninfo, II;
Jeffry H. Gallet; Carl L. Bucki; Adlai S. Hardin, Jr.; Robert E.
Littlefield, Jr. Circuit Executive.--Steven Flanders, (212) 857-
8700. Clerk.--George Lange III, (212) 857-8500, United States
Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, New York, NY 10007-1581.
Third Judicial Circuit (Districts of Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
and Virgin Islands).--Chief Judge.--Dolores K. Sloviter. Circuit
Judges: Edward R. Becker; Walter K. Stapleton; Carol Los Mansmann;
Morton I. Greenberg; Anthony J. Scirica; Robert E. Cowen; Richard L.
Nygaard; Samuel H. Alito, Jr.; Jane R. Roth; Timothy K. Lewis;
Theodore A. McKee. Senior Circuit Judges: Collins J. Seitz; Ruggero
J. Aldisert; Max Rosenn; Joseph F. Weis, Jr.; Leonard I. Garth.
Circuit Executive.--Toby D. Slawsky, (215) 597-0718. Clerk.--P.
Douglas Sisk, (215) 597-2995, United States Courthouse, 601 Market
Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106.
Fourth Judicial Circuit (Districts of Maryland, North Carolina, South
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