Nothing's more American than immigration -- the country was built on that premise. In the wake of Independence Day, Legal Newsline looks at 10 immigrants whose success stories include becoming a state Supreme Court justice.


George Washington Campbell may have an American name, but he was born in Scotland in 1769. He came to the United States in 1772, graduated from what became Princeton University and began a career that included a spot on the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1809-1811. He later served as Secretary of the Treasury for eight months in 1814.














Margaret Marshall has been the chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court since 1999 and has been on the court since 1996. She was born in South Africa in 1944, came to America in 1964 and earned her law degree from Yale University.














Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Seamus McCaffery left Northern Ireland when he was 5 years old and later served in Vietnam as a member of the U.S. Marine Corps. He was also a police officer in Philadelphia for 20 years and was elected to his spot on the Supreme Court in 2007.













Jorge Labarga was born in Cuba in 1952, then, as a state judge in Florida, became known as the judge who refused to order a new Presidential vote in 2000, giving Florida's electoral votes to George W. Bush. Gov. Charlie Crist appointed Labarga to the state Supreme Court in 2009.















Raoul Cantero was also a foreign-born justice on the Florida Supreme Court, having been born in Spain in 1960. Then-Gov. Jeb Bush appointed him to the spot in 2002, though Cantero retired in 2008 to return to his family's hometown of Miami.















Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice Marian Opala was born in Poland in 1921 and joined his country's army in 1939 during Germany's invasion. After the Germans took Poland, he made his way to Turkey and joined the British Army and, in 1944, was captured by Germans. His prisoner of war camp was liberated by the U.S., and Opala came to Oklahoma City in 1947 and became an American citizen in 1953.













Thomas Weadock came to America as an infant after being born in Ireland in 1850. He earned his law degree from the University of Michigan and was eventually elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1890. In 1933, he was appointed to the Michigan Supreme Court and passed away five years later.












Thomas Wilson was born in Ireland in 1827 and came to the U.S. 12 years later. His parents settled in Pennsylvania, but Wilson moved to Minnesota to practice law, joining the state Supreme Court in 1864. After five years on the court, he left and later became a state legislator.















Rosemary Barkett is this list's third member of the Florida Supreme Court. She took her spot in 1985 and was made the state's first female chief justice in 1992. Born in Mexico, she moved to Miami at age 6 and later became a nun, teacher and lawyer. She has served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit since her appointment by President Bill Clinton in 1993.














Charles Fried became a U.S. Citizen in 1948, 13 years after being born in Czechoslovakia. He holds degrees from Princeton University and Oxford University, as well as a law degree from Columbia University. He was Solicitor General under President Ronald Reagan from 1985-1989 and joined the Massachusetts Supreme Court in 1995, serving for four years.