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COLLEGE HOSTS SUPREME COURT JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS |
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November 16, 2011
 GROVE CITY, Pa. – Grove City College hosted a conversation with Hon. Clarence Thomas, associate justice, United States Supreme Court, and Hon. Alice Batchelder, chief judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, at the 2011-12 J. Howard Pew Memorial Lecture on Nov. 15, in Crawford Auditorium of Crawford Hall on campus.
Prior to the lecture, Thomas spoke with students in a Constitutional History class, Founders’ Constitution class and informally at the Breen Student Union. While visiting, Thomas also met with College faculty and toured campus.
Nominated by President George H. W. Bush as an associate justice, Thomas took his seat in Oct. 1991 as the second African American to serve on the United States Supreme Court, replacing Hon. Thurgood Marshall, the Court’s first African American member.
Prior to being appointed, Thomas served as a judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and as chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission.
During the presidencies of Bush and Ronald Reagan, Thomas was the assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Education. He worked previously as an assistant attorney general of Missouri, an attorney with the Monsanto Company and legislative assistant to Republican Sen. John C. Danforth of Missouri.
Batchelder was appointed by President Bush to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Dec. 1991 and began her term in Jan. 1992. She became chief judge of the Sixth Circuit in 2009.
From1985 until her appointment to the Sixth Circuit, Batchelder served as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Ohio, appointed to that post by President Reagan. She served as a United States bankruptcy judge for the Northern District of Ohio from 1983 until 1985. Prior to her judicial service, she was with the law firm of Williams and Batchelder in Medina, Ohio.
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