Justice Clarence Thomas was born in Pin Point, Georgia, on June 23, 1948.
* Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy was born in Sacramento. * Associate Justice Stephen Breyer was born in San Francisco.
Justice Fred VinsonCorrection:None of the US Supreme Court justices was born in jail. Chief Justice Fred Vinson was born in a house on the property of the Lawrence County Jail, in Louisa, Kentucky, where his father worked as the jailer. Neither of Vinson's parents was imprisoned, and the house was not technically in the jail.
Sandra Day O'Connor (born March 26, 1930) is a retired Supreme Court Justice. She was the first woman appointed to be a Justice of the US Supreme Court; President Reagan appointed her in 1981. She served till 2006.
No, a person must be a United States citizen at the time of their appointment to the Supreme Court. The Constitution requires that federal judges, including Supreme Court justices, be "nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate." Being born outside of the United States would disqualify someone from being eligible for appointment to the Supreme Court.
He wasn't born in jail, but Chief Justice Fred Vinson was born in a building in front of the Lawrence County jail in Louisa, Kentucky. His father was the jailer there.
Four US Presidents, the first Secretary of the Treasury and the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Clarence Thomas, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, is still alive. He was born in 1948.
Two US Supreme Court justices were born in Iowa: Samuel Freeman Miller................1862 - 1890.........President Lincoln Wiley Blount Rutledge.................1943 - 1949.........President FD Roosevelt
The United States of America President Barack Obama appointed Justice Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court in August 2009. She is a United States citizen, born in The Bronx, New York, of Puerto Rican parents who were US Nationals. Justice Sotomayor lives and works in the United States.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was born on March 15, 1933
Justice B.N. Srikrishna (born May 21, 1941), an Indian jurist and a retired Judge of the Supreme Court of India.
Retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court David Souter is a Republican. He was born in 1939 in Melrose, MA.