He has been a law professor and scholar at the Universities of Chicago and Virginia. -In the early 1970s. he joined the executive branch of Government and quickly rose to become the Assistant Attorney General. and legal counsel to the Attorney General and the President This. of course. is the chief legal position in the Government. It was the same post occupied by Chief Justice Rehnquist. Judge Scalia also had a distinguished career in private practice in Ohio. But the academic and professional qualifications are only a part of the dimensions of this man. He is a family man. with nine children. He is a first generation ItalianAmerican. his father having immigrated to this country from Sicily. He has also a distinguished service on the Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia for the past 5 years. In that short time. he has authored more than 80 majority opinions.
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