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Scalia Biography Honorable
Mention Conservative Scalia graduated first in his class and summa cum laude from Georgetown University in 1957. Scalia went on to study law at Harvard Law School. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1960, becoming a Sheldon Fellow of Harvard University. Scalia became Professor of Law at the University of Virginia in 1967. In 1971, he worked as general counsel for the Office of Telecommunications Policy, under President Richard Nixon. From 1972 to 1974, he was the chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States. He then served from 1974 to 1977 in the Ford administration as the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel. In 1982, President Ronald Reagan appointed Scalia to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Four years later, in 1986, Reagan nominated him as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. |
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