US Supreme Court Justices List
The Supreme Court of the United States, also known as the High Court, or by its acronym SCOTUS, is the highest judicial body in the United States. Its membership consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and eight Associate Justices who are nominated by the President of the United States and appointed after confirmation by the United States Senate. Justices of the Supreme Court have life tenure and receive a salary which is currently set at $223,500 per year for the Chief Justice and at $213,900 per year for each Associate Justice. As of 2010, there have been 111 justices who have served on the Court. John Marshall, a Federalist, was appointed by John Adams in 1801, and is the longest serving chief justice, having served a term of 34 years.The Supreme Court was created in 1789 by Article III of the United States Constitution, which stipulates that the "judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court". Congress organized the Court that year with the passage of the Judiciary Act of 1789. It specified the Court's original and appellate jurisdiction, created thirteen judicial districts, and fixed the number of justices at six (one Chief Justice and five Associate Justices).Since the passage of the Judiciary Act, Congress has occasionally altered the size of the Supreme Court, historically in response to the country's own expansion in size. Membership was decreased in 1801 to five, then increased to seven members in 1807, to nine in 1837, and to ten in 1863. It was then reduced to seven in 1866. In 1869, Congress set the Court's size to nine members, where it has remained since. While the justices of the Supreme Court are appointed for life, some choose to leave the Court before their death: a total of 54 have retired or resigned. The average age of newly-appointed justices is about 53 years old. Historically, the average length of service on the Court has been less than 15 years; however, since 1970 the average length of service has increased to about 26 years.
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U.S. Supreme Court Justices
No. Judge
Active
Term as
State Born/Died Service Chief Justice Retirement Appointed by
Reason for
Termination
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
5
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
James Wilson
John Jay†
William Cushing
John Blair, Jr.
John Rutledge
James Iredell
Thomas Johnson*
William Paterson
John Rutledge*†
Samuel Chase
Oliver Ellsworth†
Bushrod Washington
Alfred Moore
John Marshall†
William Johnson
Henry Brockholst Livingston
Thomas Todd
Gabriel Duvall
Joseph Story
Smith Thompson*
Robert Trimble
John McLean
Henry Baldwin
James Moore Wayne
Roger B. Taney†
PA
NY
MA
VA
SC
NC
MD
NJ
SC
MD
CT
VA
NC
VA
SC
NY
KY
MD
MA
NY
KY
OH
PA
GA
MD
1742–1798
1745–1829
1732–1810
1732–1800
1739–1800
1751–1799
1732–1819
1745–1806
1739–1800
1741–1811
1745–1807
1762–1829
1755–1810
1755–1835
1771–1834
1757–1823
1765–1826
1752–1844
1779–1845
1768–1843
1776–1828
1785–1861
1780–1844
1790–1867
1777–1864
1789–1798
1789–1795
1790–1810
1790–1795
1790–1791
1790–1799
1792–1793
1793–1806
1795
1796–1811
1796–1800
1798–1829
1800–1804
1801–1835
1804–1834
1807–1823
1807–1826
1811–1835
1812–1845
1823–1843
1826–1828
1830–1861
1830–1844
1835–1867
1836–1864
1
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1789–1795
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1795
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1796–1800
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1801–1835
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—
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56Monroe De
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—
—
—
—
—
—
1836–1864
—
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Adams, J.
Adams, J.
Adams, J.
Jefferson
Jefferson
Jefferson
Madison
Madison
Monroe
Adams, J. Q.
Jackson
Jackson
Jackson
Jackson
Death
Resignation
Death
Resignation
Resignation
Death
Resignation
Death
Rejection
Death
Resignation
Death
Resignation
Death
Death
Death
Death
Resignation
Death
Death
Death
Death
Death
Death
Death
U.S. Supreme Court Justices
No. Judge
Active
Term as
State Born/Died Service Chief Justice Retirement Appointed by
Reason for
Termination
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
Philip Pendleton Barbour
John Catron
John McKinley
Peter Vivian Daniel
Samuel Nelson
Levi Woodbury*
Robert Cooper Grier
Benjamin Robbins Curtis*
John Archibald Campbell
Nathan Clifford
Noah Haynes Swayne
Samuel Freeman Miller
David Davis*
Stephen Johnson Field
Salmon P. Chase†
William Strong
Joseph P. Bradley
Ward Hunt
Morrison Waite†
John Marshall Harlan
William Burnham Woods
Stanley Matthews
Horace Gray
Samuel Blatchford
Lucius Quintus
49
Cincinnatus Lamar
50 Melville Fuller†
VA
TN
AL
VA
NY
NH
PA
MA
AL
ME
OH
IA
IL
CA
OH
PA
NJ
NY
OH
KY
AL
OH
MA
NY
1783–1841
1786–1865
1780–1852
1784–1860
1792–1873
1789–1851
1794–1870
1809–1874
1811–1889
1803–1881
1804–1884
1816–1890
1815–1886
1816–1899
1808–1873
1808–1895
1813–1892
1810–1886
1816–1888
1833–1911
1824–1887
1824–1889
1828–1902
1820–1893
1836–1841
1837–1865
1837–1852
1842–1860
1845–1872
1845–1851
1846–1870
1851–1857
1853–1861
1858–1881
1862–1881
1862–1890
1862–1877
1863–1897
1864–1873
1870–1880
1870–1892
1873–1882
1874–1888
1877–1911
1881–1887
1881–1889
1882–1902
1882–1893
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—
—
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—
—
—
—
—
1864–1873
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—
1874–1888
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—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
Jackson
Jackson
Van Buren
Van Buren
Tyler
Polk
Polk
Fillmore
Pierce
Buchanan
Lincoln
Lincoln
Lincoln
Lincoln
Lincoln
Grant
Grant
Grant
Grant
Hayes
Hayes
Garfield
Arthur
Arthur
Death
Death
Death
Death
Retirement
Death
Retirement
Resignation
Resignation
Death
Retirement
Death
Resignation
Retirement
Death
Retirement
Death
Retirement
Death
Death
Death
Death
Death
Death
MS
1825–1893
1888–1893
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—
Cleveland
Death
IL
1833–1910
1888–1910
1888–1910
—
Cleveland
Death
2
U.S. Supreme Court Justices
No. Judge
Active
Term as
State Born/Died Service Chief Justice Retirement Appointed by
Reason for
Termination
51
52
53
54
David Josiah Brewer
Henry Billings Brown
George Shiras, Jr.
Howell Edmunds Jackson
KS
MI
PA
TN
1837–1910
1836–1913
1832–1924
1832–1895
1890–1910
1891–1906
1892–1903
1893–1895
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—
—
—
—
—
—
—
55 Edward Douglass White†
LA
1845–1921
1894–1921
1910–1921
—
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
NY
CA
MA
OH
MA
TN
NY
WY
GA
NJ
TN
MA
OH
OH
UT
MN
TN
1838–1909
1843–1926
1841–1935
1849–1923
1853–1917
1844–1914
1862–1948
1859–1941
1857–1916
1858–1924
1862–1946
1856–1941
1857–1945
1857–1930
1862–1942
1866–1939
1865–1930
1896–1909
1898–1925
1902–1932
1903–1922
1906–1910
1910–1914
1910–1916
1911–1937
1911–1916
1912–1922
1914–1941
1916–1939
1916–1922
1921–1930
1922–1938
1923–1939
1923–1930
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1921 (acting)
1930 (acting)
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—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
1921–1930
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
1937–1941
—
—
1941–1946
1939–1941
—
—
1938–1942
—
—
73 Harlan F. Stone†
NY
1872–1946
1925–1946
1941–1946
—
62 Charles Evans Hughes†
74 Owen Roberts
NY
PA
1862–1948
1875–1955
1930–1941
1930–1945
1930–1941
—
—
—
Rufus Wheeler Peckham
Joseph McKenna
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
William R. Day
William Henry Moody
Horace Harmon Lurton
Charles Evans Hughes
Willis Van Devanter
Joseph Rucker Lamar
Mahlon Pitney
James Clark McReynolds
Louis Brandeis
John Hessin Clarke
William Howard Taft†
George Sutherland
Pierce Butler
Edward Terry Sanford
3
Harrison, B.
Harrison, B.
Harrison, B.
Harrison, B.
Cleveland (associate)
Taft (chief)
Cleveland
McKinley
Roosevelt, T.
Roosevelt, T.
Roosevelt, T.
Taft
Taft
Taft
Taft
Taft
Wilson
Wilson
Wilson
Harding
Harding
Harding
Harding
Coolidge (associate)
Roosevelt, F. (chief)
Hoover
Hoover
Death
Retirement
Retirement
Death
Death
Death
Retirement
Retirement
Retirement
Retirement
Death
Resignation
Retirement
Death
Resignation
Retirement
Retirement
Resignation
Resignation
Retirement
Death
Death
Death
Retirement
Resignation
U.S. Supreme Court Justices
No. Judge
Active
Term as
State Born/Died Service Chief Justice Retirement Appointed by
Reason for
Termination
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Hugo Black
Stanley Forman Reed
Felix Frankfurter
William O. Douglas
Frank Murphy
James F. Byrnes
Robert H. Jackson
Wiley Blount Rutledge
Harold Hitz Burton
Fred M. Vinson†
Tom C. Clark
Sherman Minton
Earl Warren*†
John Marshall Harlan II
William J. Brennan, Jr.*
Charles Evans Whittaker
Potter Stewart*
Byron White
Arthur Goldberg
Abe Fortas
Thurgood Marshall
Warren E. Burger†
Harry Blackmun
Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
100 William Rehnquist†
NY
AL
KY
MA
WA
MI
SC
NY
IA
OH
KY
TX
IN
CA
NY
NJ
MO
OH
CO
IL
TN
NY
VA
MN
VA
1870–1938
1886–1971
1884–1980
1882–1965
1898–1980
1890–1949
1879–1972
1892–1954
1894–1949
1888–1964
1890–1953
1899–1977
1890–1965
1891–1974
1899–1971
1906–1997
1901–1973
1915–1985
1917–2002
1908–1990
1910–1982
1908–1993
1907–1995
1908–1999
1907–1998
1932–1938
1937–1971
1938–1957
1939–1962
1939–1975
1940–1949
1941–1942
1941–1954
1943–1949
1945–1958
1946–1953
1949–1967
1949–1956
1953–1969
1955–1971
1956–1990
1957–1962
1958–1981
1962–1993
1962–1965
1965–1969
1967–1991
1969–1986
1970–1994
1972–1987
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1946 (acting)
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—
1946–1953
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—
1953–1969
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—
—
—
—
—
—
—
1969–1986
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—
1971–1971
1957–1980
1962–1965
1975–1980
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—
—
—
1958–1964
—
1967–1977
1956–1965
1969–1974
1971–1971
1990–1997
1962–1965
1981–1985
1993–2002
—
—
1991–1993
1986–1995
1994–1999
1987–1998
AZ/VA 1924–2005
1972–2005
1986–2005
—
4
Hoover
Roosevelt, F.
Roosevelt, F.
Roosevelt, F.
Roosevelt, F.
Roosevelt, F.
Roosevelt, F.
Roosevelt, F.
Roosevelt, F.
Truman
Truman
Truman
Truman
Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Kennedy
Johnson, L.
Johnson, L.
Nixon
Nixon
Nixon
Nixon (associate)
Reagan (chief)
Death
Retirement
Retirement
Retirement
Retirement
Death
Resignation
Death
Death
Retirement
Death
Retirement
Retirement
Retirement
Retirement
Retirement
Resignation
Retirement
Retirement
Resignation
Resignation
Retirement
Retirement
Retirement
Retirement
Death
U.S. Supreme Court Justices
No. Judge
Active
Term as
State Born/Died Service Chief Justice Retirement Appointed by
Reason for
Termination
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
John Paul Stevens
Sandra Day O'Connor
Antonin Scalia
Anthony Kennedy
David Hackett Souter
Clarence Thomas
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Stephen Breyer
John G. Roberts†
Samuel Alito
Sonia Sotomayor
IL
AZ
VA
CA
NH
GA
NY
MA
MD
NJ
NY
1920–present
1930–present
1936–present
1936–present
1939–present
1948–present
1933–present
1938–present
1955–present
1950–present
1954–present
1975–2010 2005 (acting) 2010–present Ford
1981–2006
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2006–present Reagan
1986–present
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—
Reagan
1988–present
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—
Reagan
1990–2009
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2009–present Bush, G. H. W.
1991–present
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—
Bush, G. H. W.
1993–present
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—
Clinton
1994–present
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—
Clinton
2005–present 2005–present
—
Bush, G. W.
2006–present
—
—
Bush, G. W.
2009–present
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—
Obama
Retirement
Retirement
Currently serving
Currently serving
Retirement
Currently serving
Currently serving
Currently serving
Currently serving
Currently serving
Currently serving
Notes:
Edwin Stanton died before taking office.
John Rutledge and Charles Evans Hughes each resigned from the Court and were later reappointed as Chief Justice. Therefore, they are
listed twice.
† denotes Chief Justices, * denotes justices who received a recess appointment, denotes currently-serving justices,
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No. Judge
Active
Term as
State Born/Died Service Chief Justice Retirement Appointed by
Reason for
Termination
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
5
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
James Wilson
John Jay†
William Cushing
John Blair, Jr.
John Rutledge
James Iredell
Thomas Johnson*
William Paterson
John Rutledge*†
Samuel Chase
Oliver Ellsworth†
Bushrod Washington
Alfred Moore
John Marshall†
William Johnson
Henry Brockholst Livingston
Thomas Todd
Gabriel Duvall
Joseph Story
Smith Thompson*
Robert Trimble
John McLean
Henry Baldwin
James Moore Wayne
Roger B. Taney†
PA
NY
MA
VA
SC
NC
MD
NJ
SC
MD
CT
VA
NC
VA
SC
NY
KY
MD
MA
NY
KY
OH
PA
GA
MD
1742–1798
1745–1829
1732–1810
1732–1800
1739–1800
1751–1799
1732–1819
1745–1806
1739–1800
1741–1811
1745–1807
1762–1829
1755–1810
1755–1835
1771–1834
1757–1823
1765–1826
1752–1844
1779–1845
1768–1843
1776–1828
1785–1861
1780–1844
1790–1867
1777–1864
1789–1798
1789–1795
1790–1810
1790–1795
1790–1791
1790–1799
1792–1793
1793–1806
1795
1796–1811
1796–1800
1798–1829
1800–1804
1801–1835
1804–1834
1807–1823
1807–1826
1811–1835
1812–1845
1823–1843
1826–1828
1830–1861
1830–1844
1835–1867
1836–1864
1
—
—
1789–1795
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—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
1795
—
—
—
1796–1800
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—
1801–1835
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—
—
—
—
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—
56Monroe De
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—
—
—
—
—
—
—
1836–1864
—
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Adams, J.
Adams, J.
Adams, J.
Jefferson
Jefferson
Jefferson
Madison
Madison
Monroe
Adams, J. Q.
Jackson
Jackson
Jackson
Jackson
Death
Resignation
Death
Resignation
Resignation
Death
Resignation
Death
Rejection
Death
Resignation
Death
Resignation
Death
Death
Death
Death
Resignation
Death
Death
Death
Death
Death
Death
Death
U.S. Supreme Court Justices
No. Judge
Active
Term as
State Born/Died Service Chief Justice Retirement Appointed by
Reason for
Termination
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
Philip Pendleton Barbour
John Catron
John McKinley
Peter Vivian Daniel
Samuel Nelson
Levi Woodbury*
Robert Cooper Grier
Benjamin Robbins Curtis*
John Archibald Campbell
Nathan Clifford
Noah Haynes Swayne
Samuel Freeman Miller
David Davis*
Stephen Johnson Field
Salmon P. Chase†
William Strong
Joseph P. Bradley
Ward Hunt
Morrison Waite†
John Marshall Harlan
William Burnham Woods
Stanley Matthews
Horace Gray
Samuel Blatchford
Lucius Quintus
49
Cincinnatus Lamar
50 Melville Fuller†
VA
TN
AL
VA
NY
NH
PA
MA
AL
ME
OH
IA
IL
CA
OH
PA
NJ
NY
OH
KY
AL
OH
MA
NY
1783–1841
1786–1865
1780–1852
1784–1860
1792–1873
1789–1851
1794–1870
1809–1874
1811–1889
1803–1881
1804–1884
1816–1890
1815–1886
1816–1899
1808–1873
1808–1895
1813–1892
1810–1886
1816–1888
1833–1911
1824–1887
1824–1889
1828–1902
1820–1893
1836–1841
1837–1865
1837–1852
1842–1860
1845–1872
1845–1851
1846–1870
1851–1857
1853–1861
1858–1881
1862–1881
1862–1890
1862–1877
1863–1897
1864–1873
1870–1880
1870–1892
1873–1882
1874–1888
1877–1911
1881–1887
1881–1889
1882–1902
1882–1893
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—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
1864–1873
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—
—
1874–1888
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—
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—
—
—
—
Jackson
Jackson
Van Buren
Van Buren
Tyler
Polk
Polk
Fillmore
Pierce
Buchanan
Lincoln
Lincoln
Lincoln
Lincoln
Lincoln
Grant
Grant
Grant
Grant
Hayes
Hayes
Garfield
Arthur
Arthur
Death
Death
Death
Death
Retirement
Death
Retirement
Resignation
Resignation
Death
Retirement
Death
Resignation
Retirement
Death
Retirement
Death
Retirement
Death
Death
Death
Death
Death
Death
MS
1825–1893
1888–1893
—
—
Cleveland
Death
IL
1833–1910
1888–1910
1888–1910
—
Cleveland
Death
2
U.S. Supreme Court Justices
No. Judge
Active
Term as
State Born/Died Service Chief Justice Retirement Appointed by
Reason for
Termination
51
52
53
54
David Josiah Brewer
Henry Billings Brown
George Shiras, Jr.
Howell Edmunds Jackson
KS
MI
PA
TN
1837–1910
1836–1913
1832–1924
1832–1895
1890–1910
1891–1906
1892–1903
1893–1895
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
55 Edward Douglass White†
LA
1845–1921
1894–1921
1910–1921
—
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
NY
CA
MA
OH
MA
TN
NY
WY
GA
NJ
TN
MA
OH
OH
UT
MN
TN
1838–1909
1843–1926
1841–1935
1849–1923
1853–1917
1844–1914
1862–1948
1859–1941
1857–1916
1858–1924
1862–1946
1856–1941
1857–1945
1857–1930
1862–1942
1866–1939
1865–1930
1896–1909
1898–1925
1902–1932
1903–1922
1906–1910
1910–1914
1910–1916
1911–1937
1911–1916
1912–1922
1914–1941
1916–1939
1916–1922
1921–1930
1922–1938
1923–1939
1923–1930
—
1921 (acting)
1930 (acting)
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
1921–1930
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
1937–1941
—
—
1941–1946
1939–1941
—
—
1938–1942
—
—
73 Harlan F. Stone†
NY
1872–1946
1925–1946
1941–1946
—
62 Charles Evans Hughes†
74 Owen Roberts
NY
PA
1862–1948
1875–1955
1930–1941
1930–1945
1930–1941
—
—
—
Rufus Wheeler Peckham
Joseph McKenna
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
William R. Day
William Henry Moody
Horace Harmon Lurton
Charles Evans Hughes
Willis Van Devanter
Joseph Rucker Lamar
Mahlon Pitney
James Clark McReynolds
Louis Brandeis
John Hessin Clarke
William Howard Taft†
George Sutherland
Pierce Butler
Edward Terry Sanford
3
Harrison, B.
Harrison, B.
Harrison, B.
Harrison, B.
Cleveland (associate)
Taft (chief)
Cleveland
McKinley
Roosevelt, T.
Roosevelt, T.
Roosevelt, T.
Taft
Taft
Taft
Taft
Taft
Wilson
Wilson
Wilson
Harding
Harding
Harding
Harding
Coolidge (associate)
Roosevelt, F. (chief)
Hoover
Hoover
Death
Retirement
Retirement
Death
Death
Death
Retirement
Retirement
Retirement
Retirement
Death
Resignation
Retirement
Death
Resignation
Retirement
Retirement
Resignation
Resignation
Retirement
Death
Death
Death
Retirement
Resignation
U.S. Supreme Court Justices
No. Judge
Active
Term as
State Born/Died Service Chief Justice Retirement Appointed by
Reason for
Termination
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Hugo Black
Stanley Forman Reed
Felix Frankfurter
William O. Douglas
Frank Murphy
James F. Byrnes
Robert H. Jackson
Wiley Blount Rutledge
Harold Hitz Burton
Fred M. Vinson†
Tom C. Clark
Sherman Minton
Earl Warren*†
John Marshall Harlan II
William J. Brennan, Jr.*
Charles Evans Whittaker
Potter Stewart*
Byron White
Arthur Goldberg
Abe Fortas
Thurgood Marshall
Warren E. Burger†
Harry Blackmun
Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
100 William Rehnquist†
NY
AL
KY
MA
WA
MI
SC
NY
IA
OH
KY
TX
IN
CA
NY
NJ
MO
OH
CO
IL
TN
NY
VA
MN
VA
1870–1938
1886–1971
1884–1980
1882–1965
1898–1980
1890–1949
1879–1972
1892–1954
1894–1949
1888–1964
1890–1953
1899–1977
1890–1965
1891–1974
1899–1971
1906–1997
1901–1973
1915–1985
1917–2002
1908–1990
1910–1982
1908–1993
1907–1995
1908–1999
1907–1998
1932–1938
1937–1971
1938–1957
1939–1962
1939–1975
1940–1949
1941–1942
1941–1954
1943–1949
1945–1958
1946–1953
1949–1967
1949–1956
1953–1969
1955–1971
1956–1990
1957–1962
1958–1981
1962–1993
1962–1965
1965–1969
1967–1991
1969–1986
1970–1994
1972–1987
—
1946 (acting)
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
1946–1953
—
—
1953–1969
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
1969–1986
—
—
—
1971–1971
1957–1980
1962–1965
1975–1980
—
—
—
—
1958–1964
—
1967–1977
1956–1965
1969–1974
1971–1971
1990–1997
1962–1965
1981–1985
1993–2002
—
—
1991–1993
1986–1995
1994–1999
1987–1998
AZ/VA 1924–2005
1972–2005
1986–2005
—
4
Hoover
Roosevelt, F.
Roosevelt, F.
Roosevelt, F.
Roosevelt, F.
Roosevelt, F.
Roosevelt, F.
Roosevelt, F.
Roosevelt, F.
Truman
Truman
Truman
Truman
Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Kennedy
Johnson, L.
Johnson, L.
Nixon
Nixon
Nixon
Nixon (associate)
Reagan (chief)
Death
Retirement
Retirement
Retirement
Retirement
Death
Resignation
Death
Death
Retirement
Death
Retirement
Retirement
Retirement
Retirement
Retirement
Resignation
Retirement
Retirement
Resignation
Resignation
Retirement
Retirement
Retirement
Retirement
Death
U.S. Supreme Court Justices
No. Judge
Active
Term as
State Born/Died Service Chief Justice Retirement Appointed by
Reason for
Termination
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
John Paul Stevens
Sandra Day O'Connor
Antonin Scalia
Anthony Kennedy
David Hackett Souter
Clarence Thomas
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Stephen Breyer
John G. Roberts†
Samuel Alito
Sonia Sotomayor
IL
AZ
VA
CA
NH
GA
NY
MA
MD
NJ
NY
1920–present
1930–present
1936–present
1936–present
1939–present
1948–present
1933–present
1938–present
1955–present
1950–present
1954–present
1975–2010 2005 (acting) 2010–present Ford
1981–2006
—
2006–present Reagan
1986–present
—
—
Reagan
1988–present
—
—
Reagan
1990–2009
—
2009–present Bush, G. H. W.
1991–present
—
—
Bush, G. H. W.
1993–present
—
—
Clinton
1994–present
—
—
Clinton
2005–present 2005–present
—
Bush, G. W.
2006–present
—
—
Bush, G. W.
2009–present
—
—
Obama
Retirement
Retirement
Currently serving
Currently serving
Retirement
Currently serving
Currently serving
Currently serving
Currently serving
Currently serving
Currently serving
Notes:
Edwin Stanton died before taking office.
John Rutledge and Charles Evans Hughes each resigned from the Court and were later reappointed as Chief Justice. Therefore, they are
listed twice.
† denotes Chief Justices, * denotes justices who received a recess appointment, denotes currently-serving justices,
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