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Assumed office October 23, 1991: Appointed by: George H. W. Bush: Preceded by: Thurgood Marshall: Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; In office March 12, 1990 – October 23, 1991
Apr 2, 2014 · Clarence Thomas is the second Black justice to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. He was controversially appointed in 1991 and leans conservative.
3 days ago · Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948, Pin Point, near Savannah, Georgia, U.S.) is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1991, the second African American to serve on the Court. Appointed to replace Thurgood Marshall (1908–93), the Court’s first African American member, Thomas gave the Court a decisive conservative cast. ...
Justice Clarence Thomas has lived a uniquely American life. Born on June 23, 1948, in the small coastal community of Pin Point, Georgia—a community founded by freed slaves after the Civil War—Thomas grew up in the segregated South of the Jim Crow era. Thomas’ father deserted his family when Thomas was very young.
May 8, 2021 · Known For: Conservative Supreme Court justice, second Black person to serve on the Court (as of March 2021) Born: June 23, 1948, in Pin Point, Georgia Parents: M. C. Thomas and Leola Williams Education: College of the Holy Cross (B.A.), Yale Law School (J.D.) Published Works: "My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir" (2007) Spouses: Kathy Ambush (m. 1971–1984) , Virginia Lamp (m. 1987)
THE HONORABLE CLARENCE THOMAS. CLARENCE THOMAS, Associate Justice, was born in the Pinpoint community near Savannah, Georgia on June 23, 1948. He attended Conception Seminary from 1967-1968 and received an A.B., cum laude, from Holy Cross College in 1971 and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1974.
President George Bush (1924–) named Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1991. Since joining the Court, Thomas—the second African American to serve on the court—has often voted with the more conservative justices.
Apr 6, 2023 · At just shy of 32 years on the bench, Clarence Thomas is the longest-serving justice currently serving on the U.S. Supreme Court, and nearly his entire tenure has been rife with controversy. From ...
Jun 4, 2024 · As the times changed, Thomas began to rebel against the values of his grandfather. Angered by his fellow seminarians’ racist comments following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and disillusioned by the Catholic Church’s general failure to support the civil rights movement, Thomas left the seminary.
Jul 15, 2024 · Justice Clarence Thomas during a group portrait at the Supreme Court building in Washington, on Oct. 7, 2022. Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP
