John Roberts

Quick Facts

Full Name	John Roberts
Occupation	Supreme Court Justice
Date Of Birth	Jan 27, 1955(1955-01-27)
Age	69
Birthplace	Buffalo
Country	United States
Birth City	New York State
Horoscope	Aquarius

John Roberts Biography

John Roberts is one of the most popular and richest Supreme Court Justice who was born on January 27, 1955 in Buffalo, New York State, United States. 17th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was nominated by George W. Bush in 2005.

He had a position in the Attorney General’s office during the Ronald Reagan administration.

John Glover Roberts Jr. (born January 27, 1955) is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as Chief Justice of the United States. Roberts has authored the majority opinion in several landmark cases, including Shelby County v. Holder, National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, King v. Burwell, and Department of Commerce v. New York. He has been described as having a conservative judicial philosophy in his jurisprudence but has shown a willingness to work with the Supreme Court’s liberal bloc, and since the retirement of Anthony Kennedy in 2018 has come to be regarded as a key swing vote on the Court.

After graduating from La Lumiere, Roberts became the first student in the school’s history to be admitted to Harvard University. Due to his academic excellence in high school, Roberts entered Harvard with sophomore (second- year) standing. He majored in history, and one of his first papers, “Marxism and Bolshevism: Theory and Practice,” won Harvard’s William Scott Ferguson Prize for most outstanding essay by a sophomore history major. Roberts spent three years as an undergraduate at Harvard, returning to Indiana each summer to earn money working on the floor of the steel plant his father managed. In his senior year, his paper “The Utopian Conservative: A Study of Continuity and Change in the Thought of Daniel Webster” won Harvard’s 1976 Bowdoin Prize for the “English Language” category. He graduated from Harvard in 1976 with an A.B. summa cum laude and membership in Phi Beta Kappa, having written a senior honors thesis entitled “Old and New Liberalism: The British Liberal Party’s Approach to the Social Problem, 1906–1914.”

He married Jane Sullivan in 1996. The couple would adopted two children, Jack and Josie.

John Roberts Net Worth

John Roberts is one of the richest Supreme Court Justice from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, John Roberts 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a wrestling champion and captain of the football team in high school.

He succeeded the 16th Chief Justice William Rehnquist.

John Glover Roberts Jr. was born on January 27, 1955, in Buffalo, New York, the son of Rosemary (née Podrasky; 1929–2019) and John Glover “Jack” Roberts Sr. (1928–2008). His father had Irish and Welsh ancestry and his mother was of Slovak descent. He has an elder sister, Kathy, and two younger sisters, Peggy and Barbara. Roberts spent his early childhood years in Hamburg, New York, where his father worked as an electrical engineer for the Bethlehem Steel Corporation at its large factory in Lackawanna. In 1965, when Roberts was ten years old, his family moved to Long Beach, Indiana, so his father could take a job as the plant manager for a new Bethlehem Steel plant in nearby Burns Harbor.

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Who is John Roberts Dating?

According to our records, John Roberts married to Jane Sullivan Roberts. As of December 1, 2023, John Roberts’s is not dating anyone.

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During the late 1990s, while working for Hogan & Hartson, Roberts served as a member of the steering committee of the Washington, D.C., chapter of the conservative Federalist Society.

Facts & Trivia

John Ranked on the list of most popular Supreme Court Justice. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. John Roberts celebrates birthday on January 27 of every year.

Roberts left the Office of the Solicitor General in 1993 following Bush’s defeat by Bill Clinton in the 1992 U.S. presidential election, and returned to Hogan & Hartson as a partner. He became the head of the firm’s appellate practice, and also became an adjunct professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center. During this time, Roberts argued 39 cases before the Supreme Court, prevailing in 25 of them. He represented 19 states in United States v. Microsoft. Those cases include:

What is John Roberts most known for?

The Roberts Court embraced legal interpretations that pushed U.S. constitutional law in conservative directions on abortion, affirmative action, campaign finance, federalism, gun rights, and religious liberty. He joined 5–4 conservative majorities in Gonzales v.

Why is John Roberts important?

Roberts’ notable opinions include the Affordable Care Act cases King v. Burwell and National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius and the plurality opinion in the racial classification in school admissions case Parents Involved v. Seattle.

How did John Roberts get to be chief justice?

On September 29, 2005, then-Judge Roberts was confirmed by the U.S. Senate and, after remarks by President George W. Bush , was sworn-in as the 17th Chief Justice of the United States by Associate Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, in the East Room of the White House.

Who appointed Roberts as chief justice?

On September 5, 2005, President George W. Bush announced that he would nominate Judge John Roberts for the position of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, to succeed William H. Rehnquist, who had died two days earlier.

What is Roberts ideology?

Although Roberts is identified as having a conservative judicial philosophy, Roberts is seen as having a more moderate conservative orientation, particularly when Bush v. Gore is compared to Roberts’s vote for the ACA: his vote in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius to uphold the Patient Protection …