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Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. Biography 11/1/2005
- Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. was born in April 1950 in Trenton, New Jersey. His father emigrated from Italy as a small child. His parents were both public school teachers. His father is deceased but his mother will soon celebrate her 91st birthday.
- Judge Alito and his wife, Martha, whom he met when she was a law librarian, have two children, Philip, a college student, and Laura, a high school student.
- He received his bachelor’s degree from Princeton University Phi Beta Kappa (1972) and his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as an editor on the Yale Law Journal, in 1975.
- Alito clerked for Judge Leonard Garth of the Third Circuit.
- From 1977-1980, Alito served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the appellate division, where he argued cases before the circuit court to which he was later appointed.
- From 1981-1985, Alito served as Assistant to the Solicitor General in the Reagan administration.
- Judge Alito has argued 12 Supreme Court cases and at least two dozen court of appeals cases, and handled at least 50 others.
- From 1985-1987, Alito served in the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel as Deputy Assistant Attorney General, where he provided constitutional advice for the Executive Branch.
- From 1987-1989, Alito served as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, after unanimous confirmation by the U.S. Senate. He prosecuted white collar and environmental crimes, drug trafficking, organized crime and violations of civil rights.
- In 1990, President George H. W. Bush nominated Judge Alito to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. The Senate unanimously confirmed him.
- Judge Alito has participated in thousands of appeals and authored hundreds of opinions on the 3rd Circuit.
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