Ethical, articulate, forceful, cynical, irreverent and sometimes scathing aptly describes Antonin Scalia. Esteemed to be the only son of S. Eugene and Catherine Scalia, born in Trenton, New Jersey and raised in Queens, New York, Antonin Scalia is the first American of Italian heritage to serve on the United States Supreme Court.

A graduated valedictorian of St Francis Xavier, a military prep school in Manhattan, New York, Scalia was soon to reach the pinnacle of his academic life as a student when he graduated from Georgetown University and Howard Law School where he received his LLB, summa cum laude and magna cum laude respectively. Now, with a law degree in his hands, Scalia set out to make his mark in America.

In 1961, Scalia's legal career began as an Associate at the law firm of Jones, Day, Cockley, and Reavis in Cleveland, Ohio. Since then, this devout Roman Catholic...