Justice Clarence Thomas was born in Pin Point, Georgia, on June 23, 1948.
No, you do not have to be born in the US to be eligible to serve as a Supreme Court Justice. The Constitution only requires that a Justice be a citizen of the United States.
* Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy was born in Sacramento. * Associate Justice Stephen Breyer was born in San Francisco.
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.
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.
Yes. There is no Constitutional requirement that Supreme Court justices be native born, as there is for US President. In the early days of the Court, a number of justices were born in other countries.
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.