Antonin Gregory Scalia (March 11, 1936 – February 13, 2016) was a Late Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from 1986 until his death. Born in Trenton, New Jersey, to Italian immigrant parents—his father a professor of Romance languages at Brooklyn College and his mother a pianist—Scalia was raised in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens, New York. He attended St. Francis Xavier High School in Manhattan, earned an A.B. in history from Georgetown University in 1957, studied abroad at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, and obtained his LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1960, graduating magna cum laude as president of the Harvard Law Review. Fluent in Italian due to his heritage, he clerked for Judge Henry Friendly on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and practiced corporate law at Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1961 to 1967. In 1960, he married Maureen McCarthy, with whom he had nine children. Scalia taught administrative law at the University of Virginia School of Law (1967–1974) and the University of Chicago Law School (1977–1982), served as general counsel of the Office of Telecommunications Policy under President Richard Nixon in 1971, and as Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel under President Gerald Ford (1974–1977). Appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 1982 by President Ronald Reagan, he became the first Italian-American Supreme Court Justice in 1986. A leading conservative voice, Scalia authored over 500 opinions, championing originalism and textualism. He died at a ranch in Shafter, Texas, and was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2018; George Mason University's law school was renamed the Antonin Scalia Law School in his honor.