
Clarence Thomas is the longest-serving U.S. supreme court justice. He is famous for asking questions during oral arguments.
President George H.W. Bush nominated him as an associate justice in 1991. He was on June 23, 1948, and grew up in Savannah, Georgia. He is the second child of three children.
Clarence was admitted to the Missouri bar on September 13,1974.
Clarence was accused of sexual harassment by Anita Hill in 1991. In 1976, he became an attorney at Monsanto chemical company.
Thomas was a judge at the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1990 to 1991.
Clarence Thomas’s parents
Clarence’s parents were M.C. Thomas and Leola Williams. His father was a farmworker and his mother was a domestic worker.
Thomas’s father left home when he was two years old. Leola sometimes relied on charity to take care of them.
Thomas and his younger brother went to stay with their grandparents when their house caught fire.
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