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Antonin Scalia

Antonin Scalia is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Biography

He was born in Trenton, New Jersey on 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 19601961.

He was in private practice in Cleveland, Ohio from 19611967, a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia from 19671971, and a Professor of Law at the University of Chicago from 19771982, 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, 19811982, and its Conference of Section Chairmen, 19821983. He served the federal government as General Counsel of the Office of Telecommunications Policy from 19711972, Chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States from 19721974, and Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel from 19741977.

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 of the United States, and he took his seat September 26, 1986.

Source: http://www.supremecourtus.gov/about/biographiescurrent.pdf



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