Clarence Thomas
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Clarence Thomas is a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was born June 23, 1948. Thomas has been a Justice since 1991. He is the only African-American currently on the court. He is also the second African American to ever serve on the court. The only other African American was Thurgood Marshall. Clarence Thomas was born in Pin Point, Georgia, a small community outside Savannah. His father left his family when he was only a year old, leaving his mother Leola Anderson, to take care of the family.
He had a hard time getting approved so that he could become a Supreme Court justice. One of his former employees, Anita Hill, claimed that he made sexual jokes and harassed her. Thomas said he was unfairly treated.
