{"id":2135,"date":"2026-01-28T00:30:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:50:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:50:54","slug":"louis-brandeis-became-the-first-jew-to-be-appointed-to-the-supreme-court-in-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2135","title":{"rendered":"Louis Brandeis Became the First Jew to be Appointed to the Supreme Court in 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 154px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/images\/brandeis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"170\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louis Brandeis<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Louis Brandeis became the first Jew to be appointed to the Supreme Court in 1916<\/strong>. An Associate Justice, he served from 1916 to 1939. Before he became a Supreme Court Justice, he often took law cases for causes that were important to him. Many times\u00a0he took no pay for these cases. He was called the \u201cPeople\u2019s Lawyer.\u201d Children can learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/jsource\/biography\/Brandeis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Louis Brandeis<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Brandeis became the first Jew to be appointed to the Supreme Court in 1916. An Associate Justice, he served from 1916 to 1939. Before he became a Supreme Court Justice, he often took law cases for causes that were important to him. Many times\u00a0he took no pay for these cases. He was called the <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2135' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5198,5196,5188,5195,5197],"class_list":["post-2135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5198","tag-first-jew-to-be-appointed-to-the-supreme-court","tag-january-28","tag-louis-brandeis","tag-peoples-lawyer","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26703,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions\/26703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}