Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - Chairs of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Clarence Thomas (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Chairs of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Clarence Thomas, Human resource management in public administration, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Paul Igasaki, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., Lowell W. Perry, Clifford Alexander, Jr., Cari M. Dominguez, William H. Brown, III, ISFnet, Tony Gallegos, Race and ethnicity, Naomi C. Earp. Excerpt: Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Succeeding Thurgood Marshall, Thomas is the second African American to serve on the Court. Thomas grew up in Georgia and was educated at the College of the Holy Cross and at Yale Law School. In 1974, he was appointed an Assistant Attorney General in Missouri and subsequently practiced law there in the private sector. In 1979, he became a legislative assistant to Missouri Senator John Danforth and in 1981 was appointed Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education. In 1982, President Ronald Reagan appointed Thomas Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and he served in that position until 1990, when President George H. W. Bush nominated him for a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. On July 1, 1991, after one year and four months of service on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, Thomas was nominated by Bush to fill Marshall's seat on the United States Supreme Court. Thomas's confirmation hearings were bitter and intensely fought, centering on an accusation that he had made unwelcome sexual comments to attorney Anita Hill, a subordinate at the Department of Education and subsequently at the EEOC. The U.S. Senate ultimately confirmed Thomas by a vote of 52-48. Since joining the Court, Thomas has taken a textualist approach to judging, seeking to uphold what he sees as the original meanin...