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The President of the United States nominates individuals to serve on the Supreme Court. The nomination must then be confirmed by the Senate before the individual can be appointed as a Supreme Court Justice.
Willima Howard Taft was the only President to also serve as a Supreme Court Justice.
Willima Howard Taft was the only President to also serve as a Supreme Court Justice.
US Supreme Court justices are nominated by the President of the United States. Justices who are confirmed by the Senate serve for life, unless impeached.
Former President William Howard Taft (1909-1913) is the only President to serve on the Supreme Court. President Warren G. Harding appointed Taft Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1921; he presided over the Court until a few months before his death in 1930.
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No, that was William Taft.
The president that was first to appoint a woman to the supreme court was JFK.
William Howard Taft is the only person to serve as president and one the Supreme Court.
Justice Elena Kagan, whom President Barack Obama appointed in 2011, is the fourth woman to serve on the US Supreme Court.
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The justices of the Supreme Court are appointed for life by the President.