Associate Justice Clarence Thomas was born in the Pin Point community of Georgia (near Savannah). He received his A.B., cum laude, from Holy Cross College and his J.D. from Yale Law School. President George H.W. Bush nominated him as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he took his seat on October 23, 1991, replacing Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall (the first African-American to be appointed to the Supreme Court).
For more information, check out the biographies of current Justices here.
Also, check out his biography on The Oyez Project here.
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