Samuel Alito Parents: Who Are Samuel Alito Parents?
Olivia Shea
Updated on January 01, 2026
Samuel Alito Parents: Who Are Samuel Alito Parents?: Samuel Alito, officially known as Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. was born on April 1, 1950, in Trenton, New Jersey.
He’s an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America.
Alito attended Yale Law School and after graduating, he served as the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey.
Later, he also served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit before joining the Supreme Court.
Alito was nominated by President George W. Bush on October 31, 2005, and has served since January 31, 2006.
He’s the 110th justice and has been called “one of the most conservative justices on the Court.
Alito is the second Italian American justice to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court after Antonin Scalia and also the eleventh Catholic.
He has called himself a “practical originalist” and applies originalism flexibly, reliably arriving at conservative outcomes
Samuel Alito Parents: Who Are Samuel Alito Parents?
Samuel Alito was born in Trenton, New Jersey, United States to his parents; Samuel A. Alito Sr (father) and Rose Fradusco Alito (mother).
Both parents are deceased. His mother worked as a schoolteacher while his father earned a master’s degree at Rutgers University and was a high school teacher.
Later his father became the first Director of the New Jersey Office of Legislative Services, a state government position he held from 1952 to 1984.