No. The first US government, organized under the Articles of Confederation, lacked both Executive (President) and Judicial (Court) Branches. These were considered two of the weaknesses the Second Continental Congress authorized delegates to the Philadelphia Convention (now called the Constitutional Convention) to fix. They "fixed" the problem by creating the Constitution, the foundation of the second official United States government.
Reagon was the first president to appoint a woman to the supreme court
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The Supreme Court is established by the US Constitution. It is a basic part of the system of checks and balances on which the US government is founded. Washington did choose, with Senate approval, the men who formed the first US Supreme Court.
The president that was first to appoint a woman to the supreme court was JFK.
Congress (not the President) established the US Supreme Court with the Judiciary Act of 1789. President George Washington appointed the first justices to the Court in September 1789.
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The first African-American to serve on the US Supreme Court was Thurgood Marshall, who was appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
None. William Howard Taft served both as President and Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, but he was President first, from 1909-1913. President Warren G. Harding later nominated Taft as Chief Justice of the United States (Supreme Court), where he served from 1921-1930.Charles Evans Hughes resigned from the Supreme Court to run for President in 1916, but he was not Chief Justice and he was not elected President. He later returned to the supreme court as the Chief Justice.For more information, see Related Questions, below.
The US Supreme Court first convened in 1790, during George Washington's administration.
The first lady on the supreme court was Sandra Day Oconner
The first (and so far only) US President to have also served as a Justice of the Supreme Court was William Howard Taft, who was appointed Chief Justice by Warren Harding.