- Sandra Day O'Connor
Born in 1930, O'Connor, grew up on an 198,000-acre cattle ranch in Arizona. By the time she was 8, she could mend fences, drive a truck and ride horses with the cowboys on the ranch. In 1952, she graduated from Stanford Law School in California. But law firms would not hire a woman lawyer, so she turned to public service. "In my lifetime, I have seen attitudes about women change dramatically," she told TFK. "Today, almost all occupations are open to women. - John Marshall
John Marshall was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, on the 24th of September, 1755. He was the oldest of a family of fifteen children, and was the son of Colonel Thomas Marshall , a planter of moderate fortune. During the Revolution, Colonel Marshall commanded a regiment of Virginia troops, and won considerable distinction at the battles of the Great Bridge, Germantown, Brandywine, and Monmouth. - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg (born March 15 1933, Brooklyn, New York) is an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to joining the Court, she was a professor at Rutgers University School of Law, Newark School of Law and Columbia Law School, a litigator for the American Civil Liberties Union, and a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. During much of her life, she has been active in the women's rights movement, … - William O. Douglas
William Orville Douglas was a United States Supreme Court Associate Justice. With a term lasting thirty-six years and seven months, he remains the longest-serving justice in the history of the Court. - Felix Frankfurter
Felix Frankfurter was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. - Linda Greenhouse
Linda Greenhouse is the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for "The New York Times", covering the United States Supreme Court. She has covered the Court since 1978, with the exception of two years during the mid-1980s during which she covered the Congress. She has also been a regular guest on the PBS program "Washington Week" since 1980. - Potter Stewart
Potter Stewart (January 23 1915 - December 7 1985) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. - Erwin Chemerinsky
Prof. Erwin Chemerinsky of the Duke University Law School shares that hope. He told us, “I believe that the existence of the prison in Guantanamo and the treatment of the detainees there violates international law. However, if the base at Guantanamo should be closed, it is essential that something worse not replace it. For example, it would be much worse if the prisoners are then transferred to prisons in foreign countries beyond American courts' jurisdiction.” - Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig (born June 3, 1961) is an American academic. He is currently professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trade ... - Warren E. Burger
Warren Earl Burger (September 17 1907 - June 25 1995) was Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986. Under his leadership, the United States Supreme Court delivered major decisions on abortion, capital punishment, religious establishment, and school desegregation. He worked hard for the adoption of modern management techniques in the nation's judicial system. - James Wilson
James Wilson (September 14, 1742 - August 21, 1798), was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, twice elected to the Continental Congress, a major force in the drafting of the nation's Constitution, a leading legal theoretician and one of the six original justices appointed by George Washington to the United States Supreme Court in 1789. - Janice Rogers Brown
Janice Rogers Brown (born May 11, 1949 in Greenville, Alabama) is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She previously was an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court, holding that post from May 2, 1996 until her appointment to the D.C. Circuit. President George W. Bush nominated her to her current position in 2003. - Robert H. Jackson
Robert Houghwout Jackson (February 13, 1892-October 9, 1954) was United States Attorney General (1940-1941) and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1941-1954). He was also the chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials. - Orin Kerr
Orin S. Kerr is an associate professor of law at The George Washington University Law School and a leading scholar in the subjects of computer crime law and internet surveillance. He is currently visiting as an associate professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He is one of the contributors to the weblog (blog), The Volokh Conspiracy. In March 2006, he began his own legal blog, OrinKerr.com. He suspended posting to his blog in September 2006. - Frank Murphy
William Francis (Frank) Murphy (April 13, 1890 - July 19, 1949) was a politician and jurist from Michigan. He served as Mayor of Detroit, Governor of Michigan, the last Governor-General of the Philippines and the first High Commissioner of the Philippines, United States Attorney General, and United States Supreme Court Justice. - Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis (born March 27, 1927, New York City) is a prominent liberal intellectual, writing for "The New York Times" op-ed page and "The New York Review of Books", among other publications. He was previously a columnist for the "Times" (1969-2001). Before that he was London bureau chief (1965-1972), Washington, D.C. bureau (1955-64), and deskman (1948-1952) all for the "Times". - John Mitchell
John Mitchell (February 4, 1870 - September 9, 1919) was a United States labor leader and president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1898 to 1908. John Mitchell was born in 1870 in Braidwood, Illinois, a second generation Irish immigrant. He became an orphan when he was only six years old, and began working at that age to support his family. He worked in the coal mines his whole life. - Al Gore
Former Vice President Al Gore is Vice Chairman of Metropolitan West Financial, LLC, and a member of the firm's executive leadership team. He serves as a Senior Advisor to Google, Inc. In March 2003, he was elected to the Board of Directors of Apple Computers, Inc. Mr. Gore is a Visiting Professor at two universities in Tennessee, Middle Tennessee State University and Fisk University, and at UCLA. - William Johnson
William Johnson (December 17 or December 27, 1771 - August 11, 1834) was a state legislator and judge in South Carolina, and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1804 to his death in 1834. - Charles Fried
Charles Fried is a prominent conservative American jurist and lawyer. He served as United States Solicitor General from 1985 to 1989. He is currently a professor at Harvard Law School. Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1935, Fried became a United States citizen in 1948. After studying at the Lawrenceville School and receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University in 1956, he attended Oxford University, … - William Randolph
William Randolph (1650 - April 11, 1711) was a colonist and land owner who played an important role in the history and politics of what became the U.S. state of Virginia. He was born in Warwickshire, England, to Richard Randolph (1627-1671) and Elizabeth Ryland (1625-1670). Randolph was also the nephew of English poet Thomas Randolph. He moved to Virginia in 1674 and married Mary Isham later that year. - William Paterson
William Paterson (December 24 1745 - September 9, 1806) was a New Jersey statesman, a signer of the United States Constitution, and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, who served as the 2nd Governor of New Jersey, from 1790 to 1793. William Paterson was born on December 24 1745, in County Antrim, in Northern Ireland, moved to what is the United States at age 2, and entered the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) at age 14. After graduating, … - Ralph Abernathy
Ralph David Abernathy was an American civil rights leader. Abernathy was born the son of a farmer in Linden, Alabama. After serving in the army during World War II, he enrolled at Alabama State University, in Montgomery, Alabama, graduating with a degree in mathematics in 1950. His involvement in political activism began in college while he was a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, … - Matthew Cooper
Matthew Cooper was a reporter for "Time" who, along with "New York Times" reporter Judith Miller was held in contempt of court and threatened with imprisonment for refusing to testify before the Grand Jury regarding the Valerie Plame CIA leak investigation. - Floyd Abrams
Floyd Abrams is a member of the Firm's Executive Committee and its litigation practice group. Floyd has a national trial and appellate practice and extensive experience in high-visibility matters, often involving First Amendment, intellectual property, insurance, public policy and regulatory issues. - Kenny Richey
Kenneth (‘Kenny’) T. Richey is a UK-US dual citizen, born to a Scottish mother and American father, who was raised in Scotland but moved to Ohio to join his father in late 1982. He has been on death row for 20 years in Ohio, USA, after being convicted in 1987 of murdering two year-old Cynthia Collins by arson in 1986. - Edward Douglass White
Edward Douglass White, Jr. (November 3 1845 - May 19 1921), American politician and jurist, was a United States senator, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court and the ninth Chief Justice of the United States. He was best known for formulating the "Rule of Reason" standard of antitrust law. - Willis van Devanter
Willis Van Devanter (April 17, 1859 - February 8, 1941) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, January 3, 1911 to June 2, 1937. Born in Marion, Indiana, he graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1881. After three years private practice in Marion, he moved to the Wyoming Territory where he served as city attorney of Cheyenne, Wyoming, a member of the territorial legislature, as chief judge of the territorial court. - Michael Ratner
Michael Ratner (born 1943, Cleveland, Ohio) is an attorney, adjunct professor of law at Columbia University Law School, and president of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), a non-profit human rights litigation organization based in New York, New York. He was co-counsel in representing the Guantanamo Bay detainees in the United States Supreme Court, where his clients won a major victory in June, 2004 that gave them the right to test the legality of their detentions. - Eben Moglen
Eben Moglen is a professor of law and legal history at Columbia University, and is the founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center, whose client list includes numerous pro bono clients, such as the Free Software Foundation. - Evan Wolfson
Evan Wolfson (b. February 4, 1957) is an American civil rights attorney and advocate. He is the founder and executive director of Freedom to Marry, a national non-profit organization that advocates legalization of same-sex marriage. Wolfson authored... - Thomas Johnson
Thomas Johnson (1732-1819) was an American jurist with a distinguished political career. He was the first elected Governor of Maryland, a delegate to the Continental Congress and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. - Lee Bollinger
Lee C. Bollinger is an American lawyer and educator who is currently serving as the 19th president of Columbia University. Formerly the president of the University of Michigan, he is a noted legal scholar of the First Amendment and freedom of speech. He was at the center of two notable United States Supreme Court cases regarding the use of affirmative action in admissions processes. - Stephen Johnson Field
Stephen Johnson Field (November 4, 1816 - April 9, 1899) was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from May 20, 1863, to December 1, 1897. Prior to this, he was the 5th Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court. Born in Haddam, Connecticut, he was the sixth of the nine children of David Dudley Field I, a Congregationalist minister, and his wife Submit Dickinson. - Horace Gray
Horace Gray (March 24, 1828 - September 15, 1902) was an American jurist who ultimately served on the United States Supreme Court. - John Browning
John Browning (born 23 May 1933; died 26 January 2003), was an American pianist known for his reserved, elegant style and sophisticated interpretations of Bach and Scarlatti, and for his collaboration with the American composer Samuel Barber. Browning was born to musical parents in Denver in 1933. Having studied piano from age 5, he appeared as a soloist with the Denver Symphony at 10. In 1945 his family moved to Los Angeles. He spent two years at Occidental College there. - Sarah Weddington
Sarah Ragle Weddington (born February 5, 1945 in Abilene, Texas) is a Texas attorney and lecturer who gained world-wide fame when she and Linda Coffee represented "Jane Roe" (real name Norma McCorvey) in the landmark "Roe v. Wade" case in the United States Supreme Court. - Martha Minow
Martha Minow is the Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Her stated research interests include inequality, human rights, transitional societies, the relationship between law and social change, and the relationship between religion and pluralism. A graduate of the University of Michigan (1975), where the majored in history, the Harvard Graduate School of Education (1976), and Yale Law School (1979), … - Samuel Freeman Miller
Samuel Freeman Miller (April 5, 1816 - October 13, 1890), was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1862-1890. Born in Richmond, Kentucky, Miller was the son of a farmer. He received a medical degree in 1838 from Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky. While practicing medicine for a decade, he studied the law on his own and was admitted to the bar in 1847. He was for emancipation and supported the Whigs in Kentucky before moving to Iowa, … - Yaser Esam Hamdi
Yaser Esam Hamdi is a former American citizen who was captured in Afghanistan in 2001. It is claimed by the U.S. government that he was fighting against U.S. and Afghan Northern Alliance forces with the Taliban. He was named by the Bush administration as an "illegal enemy combatant", and detained for almost three years without receiving any charges. He was initially detained at Camp X-Ray at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, …
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