Category: U.S. Supreme Court

Amy Coney Barrett
Amy Coney Barrett


Amy Coney Barrett, born Amy Vivian Coney, is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Barrett was nominated for the position on Sept. 26, 2020 and assumed her position on Oct. 27, 2020. Barrett was born in New Orleans Louisiana on Jan. 28, 1972, but grew up in Old Metairie as the oldest of seven children. She attended Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee and graduated magna cum laude in 1994 with a Bachelors of Arts in English literature. Barrett attended Notre Dame Law School in Indiana […]
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Bader Ginsburg


Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993-2020. She was the second female justice (after Sandra Day O'Connor) and the first Jewish female justice. Ginsburg was also the first woman to have lain in state at the Capitol. Ginsburg was born in Brooklyn, New York, March 15, 1933. She received her B.A. in government from Cornell University in 1954. She began law school at Harvard Law School and was the first woman to serve on the editorial staff of the […]
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Ketanji Brown Jackson


Ketanji Brown Jackson is an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving since June 30, 2022. She is the first female African American justice and the first former federal public defender to serve on the Supreme Court, and is the sixth female justice. Jackson was born on Sept. 14, 1970, in Washington, DC, and grew up in the Miami, Florida area. She graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in government, magna cum laude, in 1992 and a Juris Doctor, cum laude, in 1996. She served as […]
Elena Kagan
Elena Kagan


Elena Kagan has served as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court since 2010. Kagan was born in New York, New York, on April 28, 1960. She received an A.B. in 1981 from Princeton University, an M. Phil. from Oxford University in 1983, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1986. While in law school, Kagan was editor of the Harvard Law Review. Kagan served as a law clerk to Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1986-1987 […]
Sandra Day O'Connor
Sandra Day O'Connor


Sandra Day O'Connor served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from September 25, 1981, until her retirement in 2006. Nominated by President Ronald Reagan, she was the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court. O'Connor was born on March 26, 1930, in El Paso, Texas. She received her B.A. in economics in 1950 and her LL.B. in 1952 from Stanford University. She worked as a deputy county attorney in San Mateo, California from 1952-1953. She then served as a civilian attorney for Quartermaster Market […]
Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Sotomayor


Sonia Sotomayor is an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving since August 2009. Sotomayor is the first Hispanic justice and third female justice of the Supreme Court. Sotomayor was born in Bronx, New York, on June 25, 1954. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in history in 1976 from Princeton University and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1979. Sotomayor served as assistant district attorney in the New York County district attorney's office from 1979-1984. She then served as an associate and then partner in a […]