Anthony M. Kennedy (Retired), Associate
Justice,
was born in Sacramento, California, July 23, 1936. He married Mary Davis and
has three children. He received his B.A. from Stanford University and the
London School of Economics, and his LL.B. from Harvard Law School. He was in
private practice in San Francisco, California from 1961–1963, as well as in
Sacramento, California from 1963–1975. From 1965 to 1988, he was a Professor of
Constitutional Law at the McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific. He
has served in numerous positions during his career, including a member of the
California Army National Guard in 1961, the board of the Federal Judicial
Center from 1987–1988, and two committees of the Judicial Conference of the
United States: the Advisory Panel on Financial Disclosure Reports and Judicial
Activities, subsequently renamed the Advisory Committee on Codes of Conduct,
from 1979–1987, and the Committee on Pacific Territories from 1979–1990, which
he chaired from 1982–1990. He was appointed to the United States Court of
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in 1975. President Reagan nominated him as an
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and he took his seat February 18, 1988.
Justice Kennedy retired from the Supreme Court on July 31, 2018.