Clarence Thomas Accomplishments

Future Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was born on June 23, 1948. He grew up in the small African-American community of Pin Point, Georgia, with his older sister Emma Mae and younger brother Myers Lee. His father disappeared early on in his life, and the family divided even further when he was 9 years old. Clarence Thomas has been a judge for 25 years, and during that time he was quoted as saying, “Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.” This quote relates to Thomas because while he has been on the Supreme Court, he has used good judgment beyond his education. Justice Clarence Thomas has been known for being silent during the most public part of a Supreme Court, in an the oral argument. While the other members of the court often interrupt each other and the presenting lawyers in order to ask their questions, for the past five years Justice Thomas has remained completely silent. He had an interesting early life, but also had some issues in his childhood. Clarence Thomas’s life was influenced by his early life. His major accomplishments to American society including the Francis Boyer Award and being the second African American to serve on the Supreme Court, helped him earn his place in history as an important …show more content…
He served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (CNN). Thomas won Francis Boyer Award, which was once the highest honor conferred by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (biography.com). Clarence has made great judgements and is still well-known today. One of them was issued on firearms, which happened on June 27, 2016. Another one he had was issued on including contraceptives. He had many other great judgments. All of these were based on what he thought, not what the audience thought. That’s why he is such a good judge, because he never does what the crowd says unless he believes that