Clarence Thomas

He first tied the nuptial knot with college sweetheart, Kathy Grace Ambush. Together, they were blessed with a child. However, the unison did not last long and the two separated in 1984.

In 1987, he remarried Virginia Lamp, a lobbyist and aide to Republican Congressman Dick Armey

Despite being as a Roman Catholic, he presently attends the Episcopal Church.

Clarence Thomas was the second of the three children born to MC Thomas and Leola Williams. While his father was a farm worker, his mother was a domestic worker.

Young Thomas was only two when his father abandoned the family. The poor earning of his mother coupled with the impoverished state of the family left him with little option but to live with his grandparents.

Influenced by his grandfather, he realized since young the importance of hard work and labour. Upon the insistence of his grandfather, he joined school. He became the only black student in high school in Savannah.

At the age of 16, he turned to priesthood, thus becoming the first black student to attend St. John Vianney's Minor Seminary. Later on, he attended the Conception Seminary College as well.

The turning point in his chosen vocation came after the assassination of martin Luther King Jr. He thought that the church failed to contain and control racism. He then enrolled himself at the College of the Holy Cross

Gaining admission at the Missouri bar in 1974, he served as the Assistant Attorney General of Missouri to John Danforth until 1977. He was the only black at the office. Initially, he held the profile of working in the criminal appeals division but later on moved to the revenue and taxation department.

Upon Danforth’s election to the US Senate, he became an attorney with the Monsanto Company in St. Louis, Missouri. However, he did not continue in the profile for long and returned to Washington DC to serve as a Legislative Assistant to Danforth. For two years, from 1979 to 1981, he controlled energy issues for the Senate Commerce Committee.

In 1981, he was signed up by the Reagan administration. He started off by working as an Assistant Secretary of Education for the Office for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education from 1981 to 1982.

In 1982, he chaired the seat of the Chairman of the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC"), which he held until 1990. During his term as the chairman, he brought about numerous changes, promoting doctrine of self-reliance and acts of individual discrimination.

Meanwhile, in 1989, President George H.W. Bush gave his fist first judgeship by giving him the seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He received his commission on March 6, 1990.

He is the second African-American to serve as the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States after Thurgood Marshall.