WILLIAM BRENNAN

Associate Justice (1956 - 1990)

QUICK FACTS

APPOINTED BY

Dwight Eisenhower

PRECEDED BY

Sherman Minton

BIRTHPLACE

New Jersey

SWORN IN

October 16, 1956

SUCCEEDED BY

David Souter

LAW SCHOOL

Harvard

Credit: The Associated Press.

“The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs.”

— Justice William Brennan