Antonin Scalia is the first Italian-American justice to be appointed at the US Supreme Court .
The 20th century saw the first appointment of justices who were Jewish ( Louis Brandeis , 1916 ) , African-American ( Thurgood Marshall , 1967 ) , female ( Sandra Day O'Connor , 1981 ) , and Italian-American ( Antonin Scalia , 1986 ) .
Demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States