Clarence Thomas
23 June 1948
Clarence Thomas is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, appointed in 1991 and serving as one of the longest-tenured members of the Court. His career spans law, public service, and judicial decision-making, with a jurisprudential focus often associated with textualism and originalism. Thomas was born in 1948 in Pin Point, Georgia, a small Gullah-speaking community near Savannah. Raised primarily by his grandparents after early childhood instability, he attended segregated schools in his youth during the final decades of Jim Crow in the American South. He later enro
