The Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas has been hospitalized for the past couple of days and is being treated for an infection, USA Today reported court officials saying, on Sunday. Clarence Thomas is 73 years old. 

He’d been admitted to Washington DC’s Sibley Memorial Hospital, after having flu-like symptoms. However, Thomas didn’t test positive for COVID and is expected to be released in a couple of days. 

Early life and education

Born in the Pinpoint community near Savannah, Georgia on June 23, 1948, Thomas attended the Conception Seminary from 1967 to 1968. He received an AB, cum laude, from the College of the Holy Cross in 1971. Thomas followed this up with a JD from Yale Law School in 1974. 

Career 

Clarence Thomas started off practising law in Missouri in 1974, serving as an Assistant Attorney General of Missouri from 1974 to 1977. 

He was then an attorney with the Monsanto Company for the next two years. Thomas then served as the Legislative Assistant to Senator John Danforth from 1979 to 1981. The next year he served as Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights in the US Department of Education. 

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From 1982 to 1990, Thomas was Chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The next year he served as Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. 

Thomas was nominated by George Bush, the 43rd president of the United States. He took his seat as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on October 23, 1991. 

Now, he’s one of the stalwarts of the conservative wing in the court and one of the longest-serving justices. In the last few years, Thomas has become more vocal, asking probing questions. 

Family and children 

Thomas married Virginia Lamp on May 30, 1987. He has a child named Jamal Adeen, from a previous marriage.