Antonin Scalia

Justice Antonin Scalia (born March 11, 1936) has been a U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice since 1986. He is widely considered the leading originalist voice on the Court and one of the most outspoken defenders of the plain meaning rule.

Legal career

He began his legal career at Jones, Day, Cockley and Reavis in Cleveland, Ohio, where he worked from 1961-1967. He became a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia in 1967. In 1971, he went into government service. He began as the general counsel, for the Office of Telecommunications Policy, under President Richard Nixon. His major accomplishment here was to formulate a policy for the growth of cable television. From 1972 to 1974, he was the chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States. He served from 1974 to 1977 in the Ford administration as the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department.

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Jones, Day, Cockley and Reavis - Cleveland, Ohio - 1961 - 1967 - University of Virginia - 1971 - Office of Telecommunications Policy - Richard Nixon - 1972 - 1974 - Administrative Conference of the United States - 1977 - Ford administration - Assistant Attorney General - Justice Department

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He returned to academia in 1977 to the University of Chicago Law School from 1977-1982, and a Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and Stanford University. He was chairman of the American Bar Association's Section of Administrative Law, 1981-1982, and its Conference of Section

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University of Chicago - Law School - 1977 - 1982 - Georgetown University Law Center - Stanford University - American Bar Association - 1981

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Chairmen, 1982-1983.

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1982 - 1983

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He was appointed Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1982. Then, in 1986, President Reagan nominated him as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Scalia was approved by the Senate in a vote of 98-0 and he took his seat on September 26, 1986. He is the first Italian-American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit - 1982 - President Reagan - Supreme Court of the United States - September 26 - 1986 - Italian-American

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