Did JFK appoint Thurgood Marshall? Was Thurgood Marshall a good leader?

Former U.S. President John F. Kennedy had nominated Thurgood Marshall to a seat on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in 1961.

Marshall was named Solicitor General in 1965, by President Johnson.

Was Thurgood Marshall a good leader?

Thurgood Marshall was a great leader who fought for human rights, and won countless cases.

He was an inspiration to many.

Who Was Thurgood Marshall?

Thurgood Marshall was a civil rights lawyer and jurist who became an “associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991.”

Marshall was a graduate of Lincoln University and the Howard University School of Law.

Marshall who worked at the NAACP at the time, also operated his private law firm in Baltimore.

Marshall made history when he became the Supreme Court’s first African-American justice, having fought consistently for civil rights and against racial discrimination.

When he was alive, Marshall won 29 of the 32 civil rights cases he argued before the Supreme Court.

Marshall was later appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to the Supreme Court in 1967.

He retired from the Supreme Court in 1991, and passed away in 1993.