Anthony Kennedy served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1988 to 2018. Born in Sacramento, California, in 1936, he studied at Stanford University and Harvard Law School, practiced law in San Francisco and Sacramento and taught constitutional law at the McGeorge School of Law. President Gerald Ford appointed him to the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in 1975, and President Ronald Reagan nominated him to the Supreme Court in November 1987. He assumed senior status in 2018.
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was born in Sacramento, California, July 23, 1936. He married Mary
Kennedy, Anthony McLeod (Federal Judicial Center biography)
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Justice Kennedy delivered the opinion of the Court.
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Kennedy, J., delivered the opinion of the Court
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