Several Supreme Court justices throughout history have had no earlier experience as a judge.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

The judge said. "The emperor has hurt no one that I know of."

VOA: special.2009.12.14

He can no more judge the wishes of the great mass of our people by the words of these middlemen than he can measure the ocean's silent depths by the foam upon its waves."

VOA: special.2010.06.24