Today in Supreme Court History: November 13, 1856

11/13/1856: Justice Louis Brandeis's birthday.

Justice Louis Brandeis

Comments

[bernard11]

Are Brandeis and John Marshall the only Justices for whom a college or university was named?

I can't think of another offhand.

[Alpheus W Drinkwater]

One of the undergraduate colleges at UC San Diego is named Thurgood Marshall College. I guess that is about the same level as the Scalia School of Law at GMU.

[David Nieporent]

John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

[Sarcastr0]

The Administrative Office of the Federal Courts is housed in the lovely Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building.

[David Nieporent]

I mean, I guess it's interesting trivia, but I don't think it has much to do with the spirit of the question; I'm going to bet that if you include all federal buildings, you're going to sweep in a lot more. The Southern District of New York is in the Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse. Wikipedia lists past or present U.S. Courthouses named after Hugo Black, SDO'C, Byron White, Warren Burger, Charles Evans Whittaker, Robert Jackson, Potter Stewart, John Rutledge, Lewis Powell, and William O. Douglas, and those are just the ones I saw with a quick skim.