List of justices in the United States Supreme Court
The list of justices to the United States Supreme Court lists all the members of the Supreme Court since it was established in 1789.
Current members
| photo | Surname | Year of birth | Year of appointment | Appointed by the President |
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Clarence Thomas | 1948 | 1991 | George Bush |
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg | 1933 | 1993 | Bill Clinton |
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Stephen Breyer | 1938 | 1994 | Bill Clinton |
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John Roberts ( Chief Justice ) | 1955 | 2005 | George W. Bush |
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Samuel Alito | 1950 | 2006 | George W. Bush |
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Sonia Sotomayor | 1954 | 2009 | Barack Obama |
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Elena Kagan | 1960 | 2010 | Barack Obama |
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Neil Gorsuch | 1967 | 2017 | Donald Trump |
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Brett Kavanaugh | 1965 | 2018 | Donald Trump |
Previous occupation
Chief Justice
| photo | Surname | Year of birth / death | Term of office | Years | Appointed by the President |
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John Jay | 1745-1829 | 1789-1795 | 5 | George Washington |
| John Rutledge | 1739-1800 | 1795 | 0 | George Washington | |
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Oliver Ellsworth | 1745-1807 | 1796-1800 | 4th | George Washington |
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John Marshall | 1755-1835 | 1801-1835 | 34 | John Adams |
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Roger B. Taney | 1777-1864 | 1836-1864 | 28 | Andrew Jackson |
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Salmon P. Chase | 1808-1873 | 1864-1873 | 8th | Abraham Lincoln |
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Morrison R. Waite | 1816-1888 | 1874-1888 | 14th | Ulysses S. Grant |
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Melville W. Fuller | 1833-1910 | 1888-1910 | 21st | Grover Cleveland |
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Edward Douglass White | 1845-1921 | 1910-1921 | 10 | William Howard Taft |
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William Howard Taft | 1857-1930 | 1921-1930 | 8th | Warren G. Harding |
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Charles Evans Hughes | 1862-1948 | 1930-1941 | 11 | Herbert Hoover |
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Harlan Fiske Stone | 1872-1946 | 1941-1946 | 4th | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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Fred M. Vinson | 1890-1953 | 1946-1953 | 7th | Harry S. Truman |
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Earl Warren | 1891-1974 | 1953-1969 | 16 | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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Warren E. Burger | 1907-1995 | 1969-1986 | 17th | Richard Nixon |
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William H. Rehnquist | 1924-2005 | 1986-2005 | 19th | Ronald Reagan |
Associate Judge
| Surname | Year of birth / death |
Term of office | Years | Appointed by the President |
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| James Wilson | 1742-1798 | 1789-1798 | 8th | George Washington |
| John Rutledge | 1739-1800 | 1790-1791 | 1 | George Washington |
| William Cushing | 1732-1810 | 1790-1810 | 20th | George Washington |
| John Blair | 1732-1800 | 1789-1796 | 5 | George Washington |
| Robert H. Harrison | 1745-1790 | 1789-1790 | 0 | George Washington |
| James Iredell | 1750-1799 | 1790-1799 | 9 | George Washington |
| Thomas Johnson | 1732-1819 | 1791-1793 | 1 | George Washington |
| William Paterson | 1745-1806 | 1793-1806 | 13 | George Washington |
| Samuel Chase | 1741-1811 | 1796-1811 | 15th | George Washington |
| Bushrod Washington | 1762-1829 | 1798-1829 | 31 | John Adams |
| Alfred Moore | 1755-1810 | 1799-1804 | 4th | John Adams |
| William Johnson | 1771-1834 | 1804-1834 | 30th | Thomas Jefferson |
| Henry Brockholst Livingston | 1757-1823 | 1806-1823 | 16 | Thomas Jefferson |
| Thomas Todd | 1765-1826 | 1807-1826 | 18th | Thomas Jefferson |
| Gabriel Duvall | 1752-1844 | 1811-1835 | 23 | James Madison |
| Joseph Story | 1779-1845 | 1811-1845 | 33 | James Madison |
| Smith Thompson | 1768-1843 | 1823-1843 | 20th | James Monroe |
| Robert Trimble | 1776-1828 | 1826-1828 | 2 | John Quincy Adams |
| John McLean | 1785-1861 | 1829-1861 | 32 | Andrew Jackson |
| Henry Baldwin | 1780-1844 | 1830-1844 | 14th | Andrew Jackson |
| James Moore Wayne | 1790-1867 | 1835-1867 | 32 | Andrew Jackson |
| Philip Pendleton Barbour | 1783-1841 | 1836-1841 | 4th | Andrew Jackson |
| John Catron | 1786-1865 | 1837-1865 | 28 | Andrew Jackson |
| John McKinley | 1780-1852 | 1837-1852 | 14th | Martin Van Buren |
| Peter Vivian Daniel | 1784-1860 | 1841-1860 | 19th | Martin Van Buren |
| Samuel Nelson | 1792-1873 | 1845-1872 | 27 | John Tyler |
| Levi Woodbury | 1789-1851 | 1845-1851 | 5 | James K. Polk |
| Robert Cooper Grier | 1794-1870 | 1846-1870 | 23 | James K. Polk |
| Benjamin Robbins Curtis | 1809-1874 | 1851-1857 | 6th | Millard Fillmore |
| John Archibald Campbell | 1811-1889 | 1853-1861 | 6th | Franklin Pierce |
| Nathan Clifford | 1803-1881 | 1858-1881 | 23 | James Buchanan |
| Noah Haynes Swayne | 1804-1884 | 1862-1881 | 18th | Abraham Lincoln |
| Samuel Freeman Miller | 1816-1890 | 1862-1890 | 28 | Abraham Lincoln |
| David Davis | 1815-1886 | 1862-1877 | 14th | Abraham Lincoln |
| Stephen Johnson Field | 1816-1899 | 1863-1897 | 34 | Abraham Lincoln |
| William Strong | 1808-1895 | 1870-1880 | 10 | Ulysses S. Grant |
| Joseph P. Bradley | 1813-1892 | 1870-1892 | 22nd | Ulysses S. Grant |
| Ward Hunt | 1810-1886 | 1873-1882 | 9 | Ulysses S. Grant |
| John Marshall Harlan | 1833-1911 | 1877-1911 | 34 | Rutherford B. Hayes |
| William Burnham Woods | 1824-1887 | 1880-1887 | 7th | Rutherford B. Hayes |
| Stanley Matthews | 1824-1889 | 1881-1889 | 7th | James A. Garfield |
| Horace Gray | 1828-1902 | 1882-1902 | 20th | Chester A. Arthur |
| Samuel Blatchford | 1820-1893 | 1882-1893 | 11 | Chester A. Arthur |
| Lucius QC Lamar | 1825-1893 | 1888-1893 | 5 | Grover Cleveland |
| David Josiah Brewer | 1837-1910 | 1890-1910 | 20th | Benjamin Harrison |
| Henry Billings Brown | 1836-1913 | 1890-1906 | 16 | Benjamin Harrison |
| George Shiras Jr. | 1832-1924 | 1892-1903 | 10 | Benjamin Harrison |
| Howell Edmunds Jackson | 1832-1895 | 1893-1895 | 2 | Benjamin Harrison |
| Edward Douglass White | 1845-1921 | 1894-1910 | 16 | Grover Cleveland |
| Rufus Wheeler Peckham | 1838-1909 | 1895-1909 | 14th | Grover Cleveland |
| Joseph McKenna | 1843-1926 | 1898-1925 | 26th | William McKinley |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | 1841-1935 | 1902-1932 | 30th | Theodore Roosevelt |
| William R. Day | 1849-1923 | 1903-1922 | 19th | Theodore Roosevelt |
| William Henry Moody | 1853-1917 | 1906-1910 | 3 | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Horace Harmon Lurton | 1844-1914 | 1910-1914 | 4th | William Howard Taft |
| Charles Evans Hughes | 1862-1948 | 1910-1916 | 5 | William Howard Taft |
| Willis Van Devanter | 1859-1941 | 1911-1937 | 26th | William Howard Taft |
| Joseph Rucker Lamar | 1857-1916 | 1911-1916 | 4th | William Howard Taft |
| Mahlon Pitney | 1858-1924 | 1912-1922 | 10 | William Howard Taft |
| James C. McReynolds | 1862-1946 | 1914-1941 | 26th | Woodrow Wilson |
| Louis Brandeis | 1856-1941 | 1916-1939 | 22nd | Woodrow Wilson |
| John Hessin Clarke | 1857-1945 | 1916-1922 | 5 | Woodrow Wilson |
| George Sutherland | 1862-1942 | 1922-1938 | 15th | Warren G. Harding |
| Pierce Butler | 1866-1939 | 1922-1939 | 16 | Warren G. Harding |
| Edward Terry Sanford | 1865-1930 | 1923-1930 | 7th | Warren G. Harding |
| Harlan Fiske Stone | 1872-1946 | 1925-1941 | 16 | Calvin Coolidge |
| Owen Roberts | 1875-1955 | 1930-1945 | 15th | Herbert Hoover |
| Benjamin N. Cardozo | 1870-1938 | 1932-1938 | 6th | Herbert Hoover |
| Hugo Black | 1886-1971 | 1937-1971 | 34 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Stanley Forman Reed | 1884-1980 | 1938-1957 | 19th | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Felix Frankfurter | 1882-1965 | 1939-1962 | 23 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| William O. Douglas | 1898-1980 | 1939-1975 | 36 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Frank Murphy | 1890-1949 | 1940-1949 | 9 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| James F. Byrnes | 1882-1972 | 1941-1942 | 1 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Robert H. Jackson | 1892-1954 | 1941-1954 | 13 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Wiley Blount Rutledge | 1894-1949 | 1943-1949 | 6th | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Harold Hitz Burton | 1888-1964 | 1945-1958 | 13 | Harry S. Truman |
| Tom C. Clark | 1899-1977 | 1949-1967 | 18th | Harry S. Truman |
| Sherman Minton | 1890-1965 | 1949-1956 | 7th | Harry S. Truman |
| John Marshall Harlan II | 1899-1971 | 1955-1971 | 16 | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| William Joseph Brennan | 1906-1997 | 1956-1990 | 33 | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Charles Evans Whittaker | 1901-1973 | 1957-1962 | 5 | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Potter Stewart | 1915-1985 | 1958-1981 | 23 | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Byron White | 1917-2002 | 1962-1993 | 31 | John F. Kennedy |
| Arthur Goldberg | 1908-1990 | 1962-1965 | 3 | John F. Kennedy |
| Abe Fortas | 1910-1982 | 1965-1969 | 4th | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Thurgood Marshall | 1908-1993 | 1967-1991 | 24 | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Harry A. Blackmun | 1908-1999 | 1970-1994 | 24 | Richard Nixon |
| Lewis F. Powell | 1907-1998 | 1972-1987 | 15th | Richard Nixon |
| William H. Rehnquist | 1924-2005 | 1971-1986 | 14th | Richard Nixon |
| John Paul Stevens | 1920-2019 | 1975-2010 | 35 | Gerald Ford |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | 1930 | 1981-2006 | 24 | Ronald Reagan |
| Antonin Scalia | 1936-2016 | 1986-2016 | 29 | Ronald Reagan |
| Anthony Kennedy | 1936 | 1988-2018 | 30th | Ronald Reagan |
| David Souter | 1939 | 1990-2009 | 19th | George Bush |