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Fri Apr-09-10 02:59 PM
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35. quite a few SCOTUS justices had no prior experience as judges

All were lawyers; many served as attorney general or assistant AG at the federal or state level. A few were academics. While I believe all of the current members of the court had prior judicial experience, some of the more recent examples of justices without prior service as a judge include Earl Warren, William Douglas, Lewis Powell, Abe Fortas and Byron White. (In an earlier post I mistakenly included Thurgood Marshall in this list; however Marshall did serve as an appellate judge FROM 1961 to 1965, when he left the bench to become Solicitor General, the post he was holding when, in 1967, he was nominated to the Supreme Court.)

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