elena kagan is the youngest justice currently sitting on the supreme court.
elena kagan is the youngest justice currently sitting on the supreme court.
who is the youngest justices currently sitting on the supreme court?
elena kagan
of the justices currently sitting, the youngest at time of appointment was clarence thomas, who was 43 years old at the time of his confirmation in 1991. as of the beginning of the 2017–18 term, neil gorsuch is the youngest justice sitting, at 50 years of age. the oldest person to have served on the court was oliver wendell holmes, jr., who stepped down two months shy of his birthday. john paul stevens, second only to holmes, left the court in june 2010, two months after turning 90.
demographics of the supreme court of the united states
the federal supreme court numbers 19 deputy justices, who are also elected by the federal assembly. of the deputy justices currently sitting on the bench, three have italian, five french and 11 german as their native language. nine of the deputy justices are women. the deputy federal justices serve in a part-time capacity, otherwise they are professors, practicing lawyers or cantonal judges. as a general rule, they serve as replacements for justices who have recused themselves or have taken ill, or when the court’s docket has become overly full. in the proceedings on which they sit they have the same rights and obligations as the ordinary federal justices.
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