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Kennedy, Anthony McLeod, 1936–, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1988–), b. Sacramento, Calif. He graduated from Stanford Univ. (1958) and Harvard Law School (1961). For many years (1965–88) he taught at the McGeorge School of Law at the Univ. of the Pacific. He was named to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in 1975. In 1988, after the highly contested and unsuccessful nominations of Robert Bork Bork, Robert Heron, 1927–, American jurist, b. Pittsburgh. He received his law degree from the Univ. of Chicago in 1953, and served as professor of law at Yale Univ. (1962–73, 1977–81), U.S. Solicitor General (1973–77; see Watergate affair .
..... Click the link for more information. and Douglas Ginsburg, President Reagan Reagan, Ronald Wilson (rā`gən), 1911–2004, 40th president of the United States (1981–89), b. Tampico, Ill.
..... Click the link for more information. nominated Kennedy to the U.S. Supreme Court, replacing Lewis F. Powell Powell, Lewis Franklin, Jr., 1907–98, American lawyer, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1971–87), b. Suffolk, Va. He studied law at Washington and Lee Univ. and was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1931.
..... Click the link for more information. . On the court, Kennedy has demonstrated a fairly conservative voting pattern, but by the mid-1990s he had come to be regarded as part of a centrist bloc with Sandra Day O'Connor O'Connor, Sandra Day, 1930–, U.S. lawyer and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1981–2006), b. El Paso, Tex. Graduating from Stanford law school (1952), she returned to practice in her home state of Arizona.
..... Click the link for more information. and David Souter Souter, David Hackett, 1939–, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1990–), b. Melrose, Mass. A graduate of the Harvard Law School, he served as New Hampshire's attorney general (1976–78), and on the state's superior court (1978–83)
..... Click the link for more information. . He also has come to be noted for being a conservative who advocates considering to foreign and international law and legal decisions when deciding U.S. constitutional issues.