Jamal Adeen Thomas parents Clarence Thomas and Kathy Grace Ambush are no more together. The duo have been separated in 1981 and divorced in 1984.
Father Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas who worked for the Supreme Court of the United States as an Associate justice is an American jurist. To serve on the court he is the second African American.
Clarance is also known as the longest-serving member of the court since Anthony Kennedy retired in 2018. He has been the oldest sitting justice since Stephen Breyer retired in 2022.
Thomas was born on 23 June 1948 in Pin Point, Georgia, U.S. He was upraised in a poor Gullah community near Savannah by his grandfather.
For his education, before transferring to St. John Vianney's Minor Seminary on the Isle of Hope he attended the predominantly black St. Pius X High School for two years. He has also joined Conception Seminary College in Missouri.
Jamal enrolled at the Holy Cross which was located in Worcester, Massachusetts as a sophomore transfer student. He helped found the Black Student Union while he was in this college. Then, he proceeded to Yale Law School to acquire his law degree.
After his graduation, on 13 September 1974, he was appointed to the Missouri Bar as an assistant attorney general and later did private practice there.
He became a legislative assistant in 1979 to John Danforth who is the U.S. Senator and in 1981 he was made Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Education for Civil Rights. The next year he was appointed by President Ronald Reagan as Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
In 1990 he was entitled to the District of Columbia Circuit by President George H.W. Bush at the United States Court of Appeals. In that role, he worked for 19 months. Later on, he come back to work for the US government and rose through the ranks to the exalted position that he occupies now.
Mother Kathy Grace Ambush
Jamal Adeen Thomas mother Kathy Grace Ambush was born in Worcester, Massachusetts on 6 June 1950. Kathy was raised by her parents with her four siblings.
Kathy was born to parents Shigao Gladys Sato and Nelson William Ambush. In 2012 her father passed away who was a renowned dental technician based in Worchester, MA. Sadely, her mom also died in 1984.
Ambush certified in Worcester from Marian Central Catholic High School. Afterward, she graduated from Lincoln University with a degree in Business Administration.
Currently, she is doing volunteer work at Global Internet Entrepreneur. Before this, she served at The Immigration Learning Center, Incorporate. She was also the director at Milton Academy of the Massachusetts Advanced Studies Program. Additionally, she also worked as Community Relations Manager at BankBoston.
According to CelebSuburb, she is married to Douglas Allen Smith. Both the couple resides in Richmond, Virginia.
Clarence And Kathy Divorced A Long Time Ago
Clarence and Kathy are no longer together as they were separated almost four decades ago. The pair met after a mutual friend introduced them in 1969.
In the late 70s and early 80s, Thomas went through a financial problem which often lead him to drink. Slowly, his drinking habit became a problem in his marriage which lead to the end. Along with this Thomas was having extramarital affairs with Lillian McEwen. Later on, the affair was confirmed when she mention it in her memoir.
During her time at the Catholic School, she met Clarance and dated for more than one year before their wedding. Their marriage was held a day after Clarence completed high school in 1971. Except for Clarence's father, his mother, grandmother, and Aunt Tina were present at their wedding.
Even though they concluded their divorce in 1984, Kathy and Clarence's union lasted for only one decade. The couple got separated in 1981 when Jamal was nearly 11 years old and led their individual lives for the ensuing three years until the courts declared them divorced officially.
After the divorce, Clarence got custody of his son Jamal Adeen Thomas.
Both of them have moved on. Thomas married his second wife Virginia Lamp Thomas in 1987 when Jamal was just 18. On the other hand, Kathy is the wife of Douglas Allen Smith.
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