The first associate Supreme Court justices took office in 1789 at an annual salary of $3,500. The longest period without a raise was between 1819 and 1855, when the salary for associate justices stood frozen at $4,500 before rising to $6,000.It wasnât until 1984 that the position broke the six-figure mark.urprisingly, there are no written qualifications to become a Supreme Court justice or associate justice. Individuals of all ages, educational attainment and career backgrounds can be considered. Justices donât have to be lawyers, judges -- or even U.S. citizens.
You are here. Mount Rushmore National Memorial is open year-round with only the Sculptor's Studio closed from October - April. Visitors in the winter will find far less crowds with the Memorial seeing only 5% roughly of the visitors coming through the gates during December - March that would come through in July or August.
Borglum did not live to see it completed; he died in March 1941. Lincoln Borglum finished the work after his fatherâs sudden death, but the official dedication of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial did not come until 1991, 67 years after Doane Robinson first had the idea.