Twanna M. Powell Lecture Series - 5/5/2005
Antonin Scalia
Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice, was born in Trenton, New Jersey, March 11, 1936. He married Maureen McCarthy and has nine children-Ann Forrest, Eugene, John Francis, Catherine Elisabeth, Mary Clare, Paul David, Matthew, Christopher James, and Margaret Jane. He received his A.B. from Georgetown University and the University of Fribourg, Switzerland (1957), his LL.B. from Harvard Law School (1960), and was a Sheldon Fellow of Harvard University (1960-61). He was in private practice in Cleveland, Ohio (1961-67), a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia (1967-71) and the University of Chicago (1977-82), and a Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University and Stanford University. He was Chairman of the American Bar Association's Section of Administrative Law (1981-82) and its Conference of Section Chairmen (1982-83). He served the federal government as General Counsel of the Office of Telecommunications Policy (1971-72), Chairman of the Administrative Conference (1972-74), and Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel (1974-77). He was appointed Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1982. President Reagan nominated him to the Supreme Court and he took his seat September 26, 1986.