Last updated on: 2/1/2013 | Author: ProCon.org

Anthony M. Kennedy, LLB Biography

Title:
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
Position:
None Found to the question "Is the ACLU Good for America?"
Reasoning:

No position found as of Feb. 1, 2013

Involvement and Affiliations:
  • Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court, 1988-present
  • Board Member, Federal Judicial Center, 1987-1988
  • Chair, Committee on Pacific Territories, 1982-1990
  • Committee Member, Committee on Pacific Territories, 1979-1982
  • Committee Member, The Advisory Panel on Financial Disclosure Reports and Judicial Activities, 1979-1987
  • Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1975-1988
  • Admitted to US Tax Court bar, 1971
  • Professor of Constitutional Law, McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, 1965-1988
  • Partner, Evans, Jackson & Kennedy (Sacramento), 1967-1975
  • Sole Practitioner (Sacramento), 1963-1967
  • Admitted to California bar, 1962
  • Associate, Thelen, Marrin, John & Bridges (San Francisco), 1961-1963
  • Member, California Army National Guard, 1961
Education:
  • LLB, cum laude Harvard Law School, 1961
  • BA, Political Science, Stanford University, 1958
  • Attended London School of Economics, 1957-1958
Other:
  • Recipient, American Bar Association Medal, 2007
  • Member, Institute for Historical Reconciliation
  • Member, United Nations Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor
  • Served on a commission to draft a tax-limitation initiative known as Proposition 1 for President Ronald Reagan [then Governor of California] in the early 1970s
  • Married Mary Davis and had three children
  • Born in Sacramento, CA on July 23, 1936
Quoted in:
  1. Do Religious Displays on Public Property Violate the Constitution?