- Born
- Birth nameDavid Hackett Souter
- Nickname
- The Stealth Nominee
- David H. Souter was born on September 17, 1939 in Melrose, Massachusetts, USA.
- He became a member of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1990.
- Like Justice
- "The first lesson, simple as it is, is that whatever court we're in, whatever we are doing, at the end of our task some human being is going to be affected. Some human life is going to be changed by what we do. And so we had better use every power of our minds and our hearts and our beings to get those rulings right." Statement after confirmation, 1990.
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