The Supreme Court Justices

Facts/Details/Questions:

1. President George H. Bush nominated John Roberts as Chief Justice of the United States, and he took his seat September 29, 2005.
2. Antonin Scalia 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 1960–1961.
3. Anthony Kennedy was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. in 1975.
4. From 1981–1982, Clarence Thomas served as Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education, and as Chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from 1982–1990.
5.  President Clinton nominated Ruth Bader Ginsburg as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and she took her seat August 10, 1993.
6. From 1980–1990, Stephen Breyer served as a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and as its Chief Judge, 1990–1994.
7. Samuel Alito served as a law clerk for Leonard I. Garth of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 1976–1977.
8. President Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on May 26, 2009, and she assumed this role August 8, 2009.
9. Elena Kagan was the Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of Law and was appointed the 11th dean of Harvard Law School in 2003.
10. Why is it important to have different races and ethnicities in the Supreme Court?