Antonin_Scalia__Supreme_Court_Justice

Antonin Scalia: Supreme Court Justice Born on March 11, 1936 in Trenton, New Jersey, Antonin Scalia was the only child of Eugene and Catherine Scalia. His father was an Italian immigrant who worked as a professor and his mother, an Italian-American, taught school. Scalia attended public school in Queens, NY where he adopted the name “Nino” (Smith, 1993). He later enrolled in St. Francis Xavier, a military prep school where he graduated at the top of his class. Academic success followed him to Georgetown University where he completed his undergraduate degree in History and graduated as class valedictorian. Scalia went on to Harvard Law School and graduated magna cum laude in 1960. Later that year he met and married Maureen McCarthy, the couple has 9 children. Scalia has a very impressive professional resume; his legal career began in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1962. By 1967 he decided to change professions to and taught law at the University of Virginia for four years (http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/scalia.bio.html). Scalia made a good impression among his academic peers but his heart was set on active politics rather than academic law. His next career move was into the government services, where he started scalia, amtonin, law, justice, good, court, school, justices, 1996, wal-mart, supreme, schultz, samara, one, graduated, career, academic, university, taught, stores, smith, should, set, regan, rather, product, peers, opinion, office, nominated, nixon, million, march, legal, later, judy-philippine, interpretation, interpret, designs, design, counsel, constitution, class, case, bench, among, 1993, yet, years, year, xavier