LA BIOGRAFIA

Antonin Scalia was born in Trenton, New Jersey in 1936 to mother Catherine, born in the United States, and father S. Eugenee, born in Italy. When Scalia was five years old, his family moved to Queens, New York. Scalia attended high school at Xavier, a Catholic military academy in Manhattan. He graduated summa cum laude with an A.B. from Georgetown University in 1957. While at Georgetown, he also studied at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He went on to study law at Harvard Law School, and graduated in 1960. Later that year, on September 10th, he married his wife Maureen McCarthy, and together they have nine children. After graduating from law school, Scalia went into private law practice in Ohio. Shortly thereafter, he began teaching at the University of Virginia, where he remained for the next four years. Scalia then went on to participate in the Nixon administration in the Office of Telecommunication Policy and the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Council. In 1977, Scalia left government work to return to teaching, this time at the University of Chicago, and briefly at Stanford and Georgetown. He also served for a year as chairman of the American Bar Association’s Section of Administrative Law. He returned to public service in 1982 when President Reagan appointed him to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. In 1986, President Reagan appointed Scalia to fill a newly opened associate justice position on the Supreme Court. Scalia took his oath of office on September 26, 1986, and is the first Italian-American Supreme Court Justice. Since then, Scalia has remained part of the Court’s right wing and maintains the view that the Constitution should be strictly and rigidly interpreted.