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• An Associate Justice on the US Supreme Court

Personal History

Family

• Born April 28, 1960

Education

• 1981 Princeton, B.A. summa cum laude History
• 1983 Worcester College, Oxford, MPhil Politics
• 1986 Harvard Law School, JD magna cum laude

Career

• 1987 Law clerk for Judge Abner J. Mikva, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
• 1988 Law clerk for Justice Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court
• 1988 - 1991 Associate at Williams & Connolly
• 1991 Assistant Professor at University of Chicago Law School
• 1993 Special Counsel Senate Judiciary Committee (Worked on Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Supreme Court confirmation hearings
• 1995 Granted tenure as Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
• 1995 - 1996 Associate White House Counsel for President Bill Clinton
• 1997 - 1999 Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy
• 1999 Nominated to U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
  • Nominated by President Bill Clinton, June 17, 1999
  • Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch scheduled no hearing
  • Her nomination lapsed once the Senate term ended
• 1999 - 2001 Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School
• 2001 - 2003 Full Professor at Harvard Law School
• 2003 - 2009 Dean of Harvard Law School
• 2005 - 2008 Member of the Research Advisory Council of the Goldman Sachs Global Markets Institute
• 2009 - 2010 US Solicitor General
• 2010 - present United States Supreme Court
  • Nominated by President Barack Obama, May 10, 2010
  • Confirmed on August 5, 2010 (63-37)
  • Sworn in on August 7, 2010
  • Replaced John Paul Stevens

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Supreme Court

• Nominated by Barack Obama
• Began serving/took oath August 7, 2010

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