Thurgood Marshall

Judge Thurgood Marshall

Personal

Birthday:

7/2/1908

Birthplace:

Baltimore, MD

Date of Death:

1/24/1993

Place of Death:

Washington, DC

Race or Ethnicity:

African American

Gender:

Male

Prior Employment:

Private practice, Baltimore, Maryland, 1933-1937
NAACP, Baltimore [Maryland] Regional Office, 1934-1940; counsel,1934-1936; special assistant counsel, 1936-1938; special counsel, 1938-1940
Director/counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, 1940-1961
Solicitor general of the United States, 1965-1967

Nominated to U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, September 23, 1961; no Senate vote

Education

Name of School:

Lincoln University, Pennsylvania

Degree:

A.B.

Degree Year:

1930

Name of School - Second:

Howard University School of Law

Consistent with providing the professional leadership necessary to advocate and defend the rights of all, but particularly of African-Americans and other minorities, it is the Law School's mission to: Educate and enable students to develop their highest capabilities and skills as lawyers; Engage as an institution in the active pursuit of solutions to domestic and international legal, social, economic and political problems that are of particular concern to minority groups; and Imbue its students with dedication to excellence and commitment to the solutions to those problems.

Degree - Second:

LL.B.

Degree Year - Second:

1933

Judicial Career

Court Name:

U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Court Name:

Second Circuit Court of Appeals

President Nominating:

John F. Kennedy

Party Affiliation of President:

Democratic

Commission Date:

9/14/1962

Termination Date:

8/23/1965

Termination Reason:

Resignation

Court Name - Second:

Supreme Court of the United States

Court Name - Second:

Supreme Court of the United States

Commission Date - Second:

8/30/1967

Retirement from Active Service - Second:

10/1/1991

Termination Date - Second:

1/24/1993

Termination Reason - Second:

Death

Bankruptcy and Magistrate Services:

Allotment as Circuit Justice:
Seventh Circuit, October 9, 1967-January 6, 1972
Second Circuit, September 24, 1971-September 30, 1991