Corrections & Clarifications: A previous version of this story provided the incorrect birth year for Justice Scalia. He was born in 1936.
Key dates in the life of Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia.
March 11, 1936: Born in Trenton, N.J.
1957: Graduated from Georgetown University.
1960: Graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. Married Maureen McCarthy, with whom he had nine children: Ann Forrest, Eugene, John Francis, Catherine Elisabeth, Mary Clare, Paul David, Matthew, Christopher James, and Margaret Jane.
1961-1967: Practiced law at Jones, Day, Cockley and Reavis in Cleveland, Ohio.
1967-1971: Joined the faculty of the University of Virginia Law School.
1971-1972: Served as General Counsel of the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy.
1972-1974: Served as chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States.
1974-1977: Served as Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice.
1977-1982: Taught at the University of Chicago Law School. He also served as a visiting professor at the law schools of Georgetown and Stanford universities from 1980-1981.
1982: Appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
1986: Nominated by Reagan to the Supreme Court. His confirmation that year made him the first Italian American justice.
Sources: U.S. Supreme Court biographies, Findlaw.com and The Supreme Court Historical Society.
