Samuel Anthony Alito is an American lawyer and judge who now serves on the Supreme Court of the United States as an associate justice. President George W. Bush nominated him on October 31, 2005, and he has served on the Supreme Court since January 31, 2006. He is the Supreme Court’s second Italian-American judge, after Antonin Scalia, and the eleventh Roman Catholic. Scroll down to know more about Samuel Alito wife, salary, parents, education and more.

Samuel Alito wiki, parents, nationality and law school

Alito was born in Trenton, New Jersey, to Italian immigrant Samuel A. Alito Sr. and Italian-American Rose Fradusco. His grandparents were from the southern Italian towns of Roccella Ionica and Palazzo San Gervasio. Alito father graduated from Rutgers University with a master’s degree and worked as a high school teacher before becoming the first Director of the New Jersey Office of Legislative Services, a job he held from 1952 until 1984. Alito mother worked as a teacher. Both are no longer alive.

Samuel Alito grew up in the Trenton suburb of Hamilton Township, New Jersey. He graduated from Steinert High School in 1968 as class valedictorian, and from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1972 with Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude, completing a senior thesis titled “An Introduction to the Italian Constitutional Court” under the supervision of Walter F. Murphy. 

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Alito went on to Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal and graduated with a Juris Doctorate in 1975.

How did he start his professional career as a lawyer?

Samuel Alito clerked for Third Circuit appeals judge Leonard I. Garth lived in Newark, New Jersey in 1976 and 1977 after graduating from law school. He apply for a clerkship with Supreme Court Justice Byron White but was not hire.  Alito served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 1977 until 1981. There, he worked under Assistant U.S. Attorney Maryanne Trump Barry, who subsequently became a federal circuit judge and was the chief of the appeals section. He prosecuted many cases involving drug trafficking and organized crime as an Assistant United States Attorney in New Jersey. 

Alito served as the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 1987 to 1990. When he arrived, the office had already started prosecuting 20 prisoners accused of being Anthony Accetturo mob associates. After fewer than two days of jury deliberations, the two-year trial, which was then the longest federal criminal trial in history, ended with the acquittal of all 20 defendants in August 1988.  Michael Chert off was quickly hire as Alito chief deputy. In 1989, Alito prosecuted a member of the Japanese Red Army for planning a terrorist bombing in Manhattan.

How did Samuel Alito get start as an Adjunct Professor?

From 1999 to 2004, Samuel was an adjunct professor at Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark, where he taught constitutional law and an unique course on terrorism and civil liberties. He received the Saint Thomas More Medal from the school in 1995 “in appreciation of his excellent contributions to the field of law.”  He delivered the commencement address at Seton Hall Law’s commencement ceremony on May 25, 2007, and was award an honorary law degree by the institution.

Alito is a member of the Federalist Society, an organization of conservative and libertarian lawyers and law students who are interest in legal theory. Alito taught Current Issues in Constitutional Interpretation in the fall of 2011 and a course in the Master of Laws in Judicial Studies program in the summer of 2012 as a visiting lecturer at Duke University School of Law.

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How much is American lawyer Samuel Alito net worth? Is he a millionaire? Salary

Alito judicial nomination was recommend to President George H. W. Bush by Third Circuit Judges Leonard I. Garth, for whom Alito clerked, and Maryanne Trump Barry, for whom Alito worked as an assistant US Attorney. Bush nominated Alito to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on February 20, 1990, to fill a vacancy left by John Joseph Gibbons. 

At the time of his nomination, Alito was rate “Well Qualified” by the American Bar Association. On April 27, 1990, he was unanimously confirm by the Senate and receive his commission three days later. His chambers were in Newark, New Jersey, as a Third Circuit judge. His estimate net worth is not update. 

Who is his wife? Does the couple have children?

Alito has been marry to Martha-Ann Alito, a former law librarian who met Alito during his many excursions to the library as a law clerk and has family origins in Oklahoma, since 1985. Philip and Laura, their two grown children, are their pride and joy. Before his Supreme Court nomination, Alito lived with his family in West Caldwell, New Jersey. Alito socialized with Judge Edward R. Becker and Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter, who was a classmate of his. Since then, Alito has relocated to Washington, D.C.

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