Associate Justice Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr. was born in Trenton, New Jersey. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Yale Law School. President George W. Bush nominated him as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he took his seat on January 31, 2006, replacing Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman 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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