June 5: Louis D. Brandeis of Boston sworn–in as (the first Jewish) Justice of the Supreme Court.
He grew up Louisville, KY… Harvard Law School… Boston law practice… appointed by President Woodrow Wilson …confirmed after turbulent Congressional hearings….serves 23 years….
A leader of the American Zionist movement,
A kibbutz (in Israel, of course) – Ein HaShofet (Spring of the Judge) – is named after him….along with a certain university in Waltham, MA.