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Antonin Scalia
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Antonin Scalia, 2006.
Antonin Scalia was born in Trenton, New Jersey, to a family of Italian heritage; he was the first Supreme Court of the United States justice of Italian ancestry.1
His father was a Sicilian immigrant who worked as a professor of Romance languages at Brooklyn College, while his mother was an Italian American elementary school teacher. Raised in a Roman Catholic household, Scalia attended high school in New York City before pursuing his higher education at Georgetown University and Harvard Law School.2