Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas was born on June 23, 1948 in Pin Point, Georgia. He was the first child of family of three children, his father had abandonded him and his family at a young age. Clarence grew up in poverty, the Pin Point community was a very poor community they lacked a sewage system and paved roads. Dispite his hard childhood Clarence was able to recieve a good education due to his Grandfather, Myers Anderson. Clarence graduated with great grades, and went on to try to become a preist, he enrolled in Holy Cross, he participated in the formation of the Black Student Union. Clarence graduated ninth in his class with and English honors degree, Clarence went on to study at Yale Law School, he specialized in tax and anti-trust law. Former president George H. W. Bush appointed Clarence the the U.S. Court of Appeals for the district of Columbia in 1990. After Thurgood Marshall retired Bush elevated Clarence to the Supreme Court. Clarence's nomination met strong opposition from minority groups who opposed his conservative view on the civil war. Clarence is a conservative Republican, he has voted frequently with other conservatives.
Ruth bader ginsburg
Ruth Ginsburg was born March 15, 1933, in Brooklyn New York. The Brooklyn neighborhood in which Ruth lived consisted of mostly poor working class Jewish, Italian, and Irish immigrants. Ruth graduated sixth in her class, Ruth then attended Cornell University after graduating high school, she graduated first in her class at Cornell. After returning from Fort Sill, in Lawton, Oklahoma where her husband Martin was stationed to serve in the Army, they returned to Harvard. Ruth worked very hard and received amazing grades, she earned a position with the law review. After her husband recovered from testicular cancer and graduated, Ruth transfered from Harvard to Columbia Law School, she made law review and became the first women to achieve law review at two major schools. After a year at Columbia Ruth graduated at the top of her class, Ruth worked for a few years as a research associate at Columbia before joining the faculty at Rutgers University Law School in 1963. In 1972, Ruth became the first women hired with tenure at Columbia Law School, she also became the first director of the ACLU's Women Rights Project that same year. Ruth began appearing before the Supreme Court to argue a total of six cases for women's rights. Former President Bill Clinton chose Ruth as his first appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court, Ruth leans more toward the liberal side of the Courts political spectrum, though at times she has voted with her conservative colleagues.