School of Law. Brief History. Biographical Sketches. Brown 50 Home. HUSL Events. Outside Events. Clarence was raised by his maternal grandparents in Savannah Georgia. His grandfather was determined to see that he received an education. He attended both all Black schools and intergraded Catholic schools. She clerked for Judge Abner Mikva of the U. Court of Appeals for the D. Circuit from and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U. Supreme Court during the Term.
After briefly practicing law at a Washington, D. Between and , she served as the Dean of Harvard Law School. She took her seat on August 7, Neil M. He and his wife Louise have two daughters. He received a B. He served as a law clerk to Judge David B. Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the United States. From —, he was in private practice, and from — he was Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General at the U.
Department of Justice. He taught at the University of Colorado Law School. President Donald J. Trump nominated him as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and he took his seat on April 10, Brett M. Kavanaugh, Associate Justice, was born in Washington, D.
He married Ashley Estes in , and they have two daughters - Margaret and Liza. He served as a law clerk for Judge Walter Stapleton of the U. Kennedy of the U. From to and for a period in , he was Associate Counsel in the Office of Independent Counsel.
He was a partner at a Washington, D. In a solo dissent in , Thomas drew a connection between abortion and eugenics, defending an Indiana law that prohibited the procedure based on a fetus's sex , race or disability. Though historians pushed back on the comparison it has been widely embraced by anti-abortion groups and some lower federal courts.
Thomas had been on the court less than a year when it decided Casey, upholding the right to abortion but allowing states to ban the procedure at the point of viability, when a fetus can survive outside the womb, or roughly 24 weeks. Thomas joined two partial dissents in the case, including one written by Scalia that asserted that because the Constitution says "absolutely nothing about" abortion it cannot be a constitutional right.
In the coming months, Thomas will have the opportunity to apply those views in a case challenging a Mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The court will hear arguments in that case on Dec. His strongly held views on abortion, LGBTQ rights, voting protections and affirmative action are precisely why many progressives are so critical of his tenure.
Thomas was raised by his grandparents in the Jim Crow South of the s. He told Harvard Law School in that friends and neighbors were "not lettered people" but "treasured education in a way that a person who was hungry would treasure food.
He considered becoming a Catholic priest but left seminary school after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Thomas later wrote that he was disturbed by the disparaging reaction some fellow students had to King's legacy. After working as an assistant state attorney general in Missouri in the late s, Thomas moved to Washington to tackle energy issues for the Senate Commerce Committee.
Bush nominated Thomas to serve on the U. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in , a court that often becomes a steppingstone to the Supreme Court. Less than two years later, Bush nominated him to replace Marshall. Thomas has described himself as "quite introverted," but he hasn't shied from controversy.
His wife, Virginia Thomas, a conservative activist, has come under fire repeatedly for social media posts, including a item critical of the survivors of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting.
Virginia Thomas apologized to the justice's former law clerks earlier this year for social media posts that supported Trump. But for the most part, those who have followed Thomas closely say, he operates based on his view of the law without much concern for how that's perceived.
He doesn't care. But it is the controversy over Thomas' confirmation that many progressives — and conservatives, for that matter — have never gotten past. When Hill's allegations of workplace sexual harassment surfaced, Thomas fought back, calling the Senate Judiciary hearings led by then-Sen.
Joe Biden a "disgrace" and a "circus.
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