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Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George H. W. Bush to succeed Thurgood Marshall and has served since 1991.
Apr 2, 2014 · Clarence Thomas is the second African American justice to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. He was controversially appointed in 1991 and leans conservative.
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Aug 13, 2024 · Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948, Pin Point, near Savannah, Georgia, U.S.) is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1991, the second African American to serve on the Court. Appointed to replace Thurgood Marshall (1908–93), the Court’s first African American member, Thomas gave the Court a decisive ...
Feb 9, 2010 · President George Bush nominated Clarence Thomas, a 43-year-old African American judge known for his conservative beliefs, to fill the seat. Thomas had been chairman of the Equal Employment...
Apr 3, 2022 · Who appointed Clarence Thomas? President George H.W. Bush nominated Thomas to the court in 1991.
At the time of his nomination, Thomas was a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; President Bush had appointed him to that position in March 1990. The nomination proceedings were contentious from the start, especially over the issue of abortion.
President George Bush appointed Thomas to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1990. On July 1, 1991, President Bush nominated Thomas to the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Supreme court justice, appeals court judge, federal official. Clarence Thomas was sworn in as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in November of 1991, following what was perhaps the greatest furor over such an appointment in modern history.
May 8, 2021 · Less than a year after Thomas was appointed to the appeals court, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall—the nation's first Black Supreme Court justice—announced his retirement. Bush, impressed with Thomas' conservative positions, nominated him to fill the position.
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Justice Clarence Thomas joined the U.S. Supreme Court on October 23, 1991, replacing Justice Thurgood Marshall. He is the longest-serving current Justice by a wide margin, and he is the only current Justice who took his seat before 2000. Thomas was born in Georgia on June 23, 1948.