Best Known For Antonin Scalia is best known as an Associate
Justice for the U.S. Supreme Court, appointed in 1986 by Ronald
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice member born on March 11, 1936 in
Trenton, New Jersey. He was a practicing lawyer in the 1960s,
and then worked in public service in the '70s with roles in
President Nixon’s general counsel and as the Assistant Attorney
General. In the '80s he became a part of President Ronald
Reagan’s Court of Appeals. In 1986 the President confirmed him
as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Antonin Gregory
Scalia is the only child of Salvadore Eugene and Catherine
Panaro Scalia. His father emigrated from Sicily as a teenager
and came through Ellis Island. The older Scalia got a college
education and became a professor of romance languages at
Brooklyn College. Antonin Scalia's mother was first generation
Italian-American who worked as an ele