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3 unusual facts about associate justice


Don McNeill's Breakfast Club

It remained a fixture on the ABC radio network (formerly the NBC Blue Network; it became known as ABC in 1945), maintaining its popularity for years and counting among its fans Supreme Court Associate Justice William O. Douglas.

Philip Barbour High School

The school is named, as is the county it serves, for Philip Pendleton Barbour a former Speaker of the House and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Robert Williams Daniel

His great-grandfather Peter V. Daniel, was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and his great-great-grandfather, Edmund Randolph, was the seventh Governor of Virginia, the first Attorney General of the United States and later served as Secretary of State.


ABC nations

At the conference, the United States was represented by Frederick William Lehmann, a former United States Solicitor General, and Joseph Rucker Lamar, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Aloma Mariam Mukhtar

In her career, Mukhtar has been many firsts: she is the first female lawyer from Northern Nigeria, first female judge of the High Court in Kano State judiciary, the first female justice of the Court of Appeal of Nigeria, the first female justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and the first female Chief Justice of Nigeria.

Daniel S. Schanck Observatory

The Schanck Observatory was dedicated on 18 June 1866 with an address given by Joseph P. Bradley (1813–1892), a Rutgers College alumnus (A.B. 1836) and prominent attorney who four years later was installed as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States.

Democratic vice presidential nomination of 1944

Among the possible candidates were James F. Byrnes, Roosevelt's "assisting president," who initially was the prominent alternative, Associate Justice William O. Douglas, U.S. Senators Alben W. Barkley and Harry S. Truman as well as the Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn.

Efraín Rivera Pérez

Efraín Rivera Pérez (1951- 15 September 2013) born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico , was a former Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico.

General Welfare clause

There, the Court agreed with Associate Justice Joseph Story's construction in Story's 1833 Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States.

Moreover, the Supreme Court held the understanding of the General Welfare Clause contained in the Taxing and Spending Clause adheres to the construction given it by Associate Justice Joseph Story in his 1833 Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States.

Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr.

When Supreme Court Associate Justice Byron White retired in 1993, Merritt was considered a potential nominee, along with Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt and Stephen Breyer of the First Circuit, who was eventually nominated by President Bill Clinton and subsequently joined the Court.

Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research

Thanks to a contribution from the United Auto Workers “The Hand of God” was recast and donated to the city of Detroit in honor of Frank Murphy, Michigan Governor and US Supreme Court Associate Justice.

Gregorio Perfecto High School

On September 25, 1958 then mayor Arsenio H. Lacson approved Resolution No. 529 changing Ismar High School to Gregorio Perfecto High School in honor of the late Supreme Court Associate Justice Gregorio Perfecto, one of the signatories of the 1935 Constitution who used to represent Tondo in Congress.

Henry Brockholst Livingston

Henry Brockholst Livingston (November 25, 1757 – March 18, 1823) was an American Revolutionary War officer, a justice of the New York Court of Appeals and eventually an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Impeachment in the United States

Of these, 15 were federal judges: thirteen district court judges, one court of appeals judge (who also sat on the Commerce Court), and one Supreme Court Associate Justice.

Irene Cortes

These views on "residual powers", similar to those expressed by U.S. Associate Justice Robert H. Jackson in his concurring opinion in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579 (1952), remain the subject of academic debate.

Jackson Temple

Jackson Temple (August 11, 1827–December 25, 1902) was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California.

James M. Johnson

James M. Johnson is an Associate Justice of the Washington Supreme Court.

Juan N. Silva Meza

He served as an Associate Justice (ministro) of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation since 26 January 1995, having previously served extensively elsewhere in the judiciary, including the Federal Electoral Tribunal.

Liana Fiol Matta

Liana Fiol Matta (born 1946) in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico is a Puerto Rican jurist currently serving as an Associate Justice in the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico.

Luis Estrella Martínez

Attorney Luis Estrella-Martínez, born on November 17, 1971 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, has been nominated by Governor Luis Fortuño to become the youngest Associate Justice of the current Supreme Court of Puerto Rico.

Michael K. Young

Michael K. Young received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brigham Young University in 1973 and a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School in 1976, after which he clerked for Supreme Court Associate Justice William Rehnquist.

National Labor Relations Board v. Sands Manufacturing Co.

Associate Justice Owen Roberts wrote the decision for the majority, joined by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and Associate Justices James Clark McReynolds, Pierce Butler, and Harlan F. Stone.

Niagara Falls peace conference

At the conference, the United States was represented by Frederick William Lehmann, a former United States Solicitor General; and Joseph Rucker Lamar, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Princeton Law School

Sonia Sotomayor, then Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and later Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, received an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from Princeton University.

Seattle Public Schools

Chief Justice Roberts wrote that "the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race." Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy filed a concurrence that presented a more narrow interpretation, stating that schools may use "race conscious" means to achieve diversity in schools but that the schools at issue in this case did not use a sufficient narrow tailoring of their plans to sustain their goals.

Smith Thompson

Smith Thompson (January 17, 1768 – December 18, 1843) was a United States Secretary of the Navy from 1818 to 1823, and a United States Supreme Court Associate Justice from 1823 until his death in 1843.

Undue burden standard

In a 7-to-1 ruling, Associate Justice Stanley Forman Reed fashioned an "undue burden" test to decide the constitutionality of a Virginia law requiring separate but equal racial segregation in public transportation.

United States v. Carmack

In an opinion by Associate Justice Harold Hitz Burton, the unanimous Court reaffirmed the concept of eminent domain, recognizing the power of the government to seize land according to the Condemnation Act and Public Buildings Act.

Walter Desmond

He was appointed Judge in the Los Angeles Superior Court by Governor C.C. Young on August 3, 1927 and served until April 11, 1934, when he took an appointment from Governor Rolph as an Associate Justice for the California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division 3.


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A. Cecil Snyder

In 1953, Governor Luis Muñoz Marín, following a long-standing tradition of appointing the most senior Associate Justice as Chief Justice when a vacancy arose, appointed him Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, the first appointment that a Puerto Rican governor made to the court, addressing the nomination to "A. Cecilio Snyder".

C. J. Goodell

On January 2, 1945, Governor Earl Warren appointed Goodell an Associate Justice of the District Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, Division Two in place of Homer R. Spence who was elevated to the California Supreme Court on the same day.

Carlos Moreno

Carlos R. Moreno, U.S. jurist, associate justice of the Supreme Court of California

Charles McLean Andrews

He married Evangline Holcombe Walker; their daughter Ethel married John Marshall Harlan II, who became an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1954.

David O. Stewart

Stewart was law clerk to Associate Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. of the United States Supreme Court during October Term, 1979, after working as law clerk for two appellate judges, J. Skelly Wright and David L. Bazelon of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Francis Condon

He was reelected to the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses and served from November 4, 1930, until his resignation on January 10, 1935, having been appointed an Associate Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court in which capacity he served until January 7, 1958, when he was appointed Chief Justice.

Francisco Rebollo

Francisco Rebollo, a former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, served in that position from 1982 to 2008.

George Shiras

George Shiras, Jr.(1832–1924), Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

Harold Burton

Harold Hitz Burton (1888–1964), mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, member of the United States Senate and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

J.P. Stevens

John Paul Stevens (born 1920) American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Jaime Fuster

Liana Fiol Matta, Associate Justice of the Puerto Rico Supreme Court

Jeff Johnson

Jeffrey W. Johnson (born 1960), Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal

John F. Kennedy Supreme Court candidates

Robert F. Kennedy said "it would mean so much overseas that we had a Negro on the Supreme Court." However, Hastie was opposed by Chief Justice Earl Warren, who balked because "he's not a liberal and he'll be opposed to all measures we are interested in, and he would be completely unsatisfactory." Associate Justice William O. Douglas also objected to Hastie as the nominee.

Justice Allen

John Campbell Allen, an Associate Justice and Chief Justice of the colonial New Brunswick Supreme Court

Justice Bell

John C. Bell, Jr., an Associate Justice and Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court

Justice Black

Hugo Lafayette Black, an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1937 to 1971

Justice Douglas

Robert M. Douglas, an Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court

Samuel J. Douglas, an Associate Justice of the Florida Supreme Court from 1866 to 1868

Justice Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932

Justice Hughes

Frank Joseph Hughes, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada

Justice King

James Lawrence King, an Associate Justice of the Florida Supreme Court

Justice Lamar

Joseph Rucker Lamar, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

Justice Marshall

Roujet D. Marshall, an Associate Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court

Justice Moore

Alfred Moore, an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

Andrew G. T. Moore II, an Associate Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court

Justice Page

William W. Page, an Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court for four months

Henry Page, an Associate Justice of the Maryland Court of Appeals

E. M. Page, an Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court for less than a year

Justice Richardson

Frank K. Richardson (1914-1999), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California

Justice Roberts

Owen Roberts, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1930-1945)

Justice Russell

Charles S. Russell, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia

Justice Ryan

Michael D. Ryan, an Associate Justice on the Arizona Supreme Court

Justice Stewart

Potter Stewart, an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

Justice Walker

Richard Wilde Walker, Jr., an Associate Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court

Justice West

Jesse F. West, an Associate Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals

Justice White

Byron Raymond White (1917 - 2002), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

Hugh Lawson White, an Associate Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court

Justice Woods

William Burnham Woods, an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

Louis Sulzbacher

Louis Sulzbacher (May 10, 1842 – January 17, 1915) was the first continental American appointed as Associate Justice of the newly created Supreme Court of Puerto Rico in 1900.

Mark Gibbons

Mark Gibbons is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada.

Roberto A. Rivera-Soto

He was confirmed by the New Jersey Senate on June 10, 2004, and was sworn in as an Associate Justice by Justice Virginia Long on September 1, 2004 in a private ceremony.

RuSHA Trial

The judges in this case, heard before Military Tribunal I, were Lee B. Wyatt (presiding judge), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia; Daniel T. O'Connell of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, and Johnson T. Crawford from Oklahoma.

Samuel C. Bennett

He served as Nauvoo city alderman/associate justice from 1843 to 1845.

Sidney Runyan Thomas

Senior White House officials listed Judge Thomas among approximately 10 individuals considered to replace retiring U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens.

Sulzbacher

Louis Sulzbacher (1842–1915), Associate Justice of Supreme Court of Puerto Rico

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

Before the 1980s, Chief Justices Fred M. Vinson and Warren Burger, as well as Associate Justice Wiley Blount Rutledge, served on the D.C. Circuit before their elevations to the Supreme Court.

United States presidential inauguration

When George Washington was inaugurated, the oath was administered by Robert Livingston, Chancellor of New York State, in 1789, and by William Cushing, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, in 1793.

University of South Dakota School of Law

Steven L. Zinter (1975), Associate Justice on the South Dakota Supreme Court.

Virginie de Ternant

Together they had one son, Charles (July 23, 1851 – February 4, 1907), who would enjoy a distinguished political career as a state senator, United States Attorney, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana, Associate Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, and United States federal judge.

William Brennan

William J. Brennan, Jr. (1906–1997), former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court