Supreme Court Justices and Getting Old[er]

From the blog of Ruth Anne Adams:

Last night we watched a lot of the coverage about President Bush's nominee John G. Roberts as associate justice to the Supreme Court. I commented that this fellow is really young. Then I realized he is 50 years old and that I am less than a decade younger than him. This is the closest any nominee has been to my age that I can recall.

Thinking back to law school, I remember the tumultuous appointments and the "Borking" of Judge Robert Bork while I was in school. I remember this mostly because we made fun of it in the annual "Law Revue--The Play not the Book". [This was the UW-Law School's answer to Saturday Night Live]. Even then, I was beginning my law career and I was a different generation from them. I was being taught by the Woodstock generation and older. Now it's my generation that's being appointed to the nation's highest court.

50 really is young, isn't it?