United States Supreme Court Justices
One hundred and twelve Justices have served on the United States Supreme Court, including seventeen Chief Justices. For biographies of Supreme Court Justices, visit the Supreme Court Historical Society.
| John Jay 1789-1795, Chief Justice |
John Rutledge 1795, Chief Justice 1789-1791, Associate Justice |
James Wilson 1789-1798, Associate Justice |
| William Cushing 1790-1810, Associate Justice |
John Blair, Jr. 1790-1796, Associate Justice |
James Iredell 1790-1799, Associate Justice |
| Thomas Johnson 1792-1793, Associate Justice |
William Paterson 1793-1806, Associate Justice |
Samuel Chase 1796-1811, Associate Justice |
| Oliver Ellsworth 1796-1800, Chief Justice |
Bushrod Washington 1799-1829, Associate Justice |
Alfred Moore 1800-1804, Associate Justice |
| John Marshall 1801-1835, Chief Justice |
William Johnson 1804-1834, Associate Justice |
H. Brockholst Livingston 1807-1823, Associate Justice |
| Thomas Todd 1807-1826, Associate Justice |
Gabriel Duvall 1811-1835, Associate Justice |
Joseph Story 1812-1845, Associate Justice |
| Smith Thompson 1823-1843, Associate Justice |
Robert Trimble 1826-1826, Associate Justice |
John McLean 1830-1861, Associate Justice |
| Henry Baldwin 1830-1844, Associate Justice |
James M. Wayne 1835-1867, Associate Justice |
Roger Brooke Taney 1836-186, Chief Justice |
| Philip P. Barbour 1836-1841, Associate Justice |
John Catron 1837-186, Associate Justice |
John McKinley 1838-1852, Associate Justice |
| Peter V. Daniel 1842-186, Associate Justice |
Samuel Nelson 1845-1872, Associate Justice |
Levi Woodbury 1845-1851, Associate Justice |
| Robert C. Grier 1846-1870, Associate Justice |
Benjamin R. Curtis 1851-1857, Associate Justice |
John A. Campbell 1853-1861, Associate Justice |
| Nathan Clifford 1858-1881, Associate Justice |
Noah H. Swayne 1862-1881, Associate Justice |
Samuel F. Miller 1862-1890, Associate Justice |
| David Davis 1862-1877, Associate Justice |
Stephen J. Field 1863-1897, Associate Justice |
Salmon Portland Chase 1864-1873, Chief Justice |
| William Strong 1870-1880, Associate Justice |
Joseph P. Bradley 1870-1892, Associate Justice |
Ward Hung
1873-1882, Associate Justice
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| Morrison R. Waite 1874-1888, Chief Justice |
John Marshall Harlan 1877-1911, Associate Justice |
William E. Woods 1881-1887, Associate Justice |
| Stanley Matthews 1881-1889, Associate Justice |
Horace Gray 1882-1902, Associate Justice |
Samuel Blatchford 1882-1893, Associate Justice |
| Lucius Q.C. Lamar 1888-1893, Associate Justice |
Melville Weston Fuller 1888-1910, Chief Justice |
David J. Brewer 1890-1910, Associate Justice |
| Henry B. Brown 1891-1906, Associate Justice |
George Shiras, Jr. 1892-1903, Associate Justice |
Howell E. Jackson 1893-1895, Associate Justice |
| Edward Douglas White 1910-1921, Chief Justice 1894-1910, Associate Justice |
Rufus W. Peckham
1896-1909, Associate Justice
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Joseph McKenna 1898-1925, Associate Justice |
| Oliver Wendall Holmes, Jr. 1902-1932, Associate Justice |
William R. Day 1903-1922, Associate Justice |
William H. Moody 1906-1910, Associate Justice |
| Horace H. Lurton 1910-1914, Associate Justice |
Charles Evans Hughes 1930-1941, Chief Justice 1910-1916, Associate Justice |
Willis Van Devanter 1911-1937, Associate Justice |
| Joseph Rucker Lamar 1911-1916, Associate Justice |
Mahlon Pitney 1912-1922, Associate Justice |
James Clark McReynolds 1914-1941, Associate Justice |
| Louis D. Brandeis 1916-1939, Associate Justice |
John H. Clarke 1916-1922, Associate Justice |
William Howard Taft 1921-1930, Chief Justice |
| George Sutherland 1922-1938, Associate Justice |
Pierce Butler 1923-1932, Associate Justice |
Edward T. Sanford 1923-1930, Associate Justice |
| Harlan Fiske Stone 1941-1946, Chief Justice 1925-1941, Associate Justice |
Owen J. Roberts 1930-1945, Associate Justice |
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo 1932-1938, Associate Justice |
| Hugo Black 1937-1971, Associate Justice |
Stanley F. Reed 1938-1957, Associate Justice |
Felix Frankfurter 1939-1962, Associate Justice |
| William O. Douglas 1939-1975, Associate Justice |
Frank W. Murphy 1940-1949, Associate Justice |
James F. Byrnes 1941-1942, Associate Justice |
| Robert H. Jackson 1941-1954, Associate Justice |
Wiley B. Rutledge 1943-1949, Associate Justice |
Harold H. Burton 1945-1958, Associate Justice |
| Fred M. Vinson 1946-1953, Chief Justice |
Tom C. Clark 1949-1967, Associate Justice |
Sherman Minton 1949-1956, Associate Justice |
| Earl Warren 1953-1969, Chief Justice |
John Marshall Harlan II 1955-1971, Associate Justice |
William J. Brennan Jr. 1956-1990, Associate Justice |
| Charles E. Whittacker 1957-1962, Associate Justice |
Potter Stewart 1958-1981, Associate Justice |
Byron R. White 1962-1993, Associate Justice |
| Arthur J. Goldberg 1962-1965, Associate Justice |
Abe Fortas 1965-1969, Associate Justice |
Thurgood Marshall 1967-1991, Associate Justice |
| Warren E. Burger 1969-1986, Chief Justice |
Harry A. Blackmun 1970-1994, Associate Justice |
Lewis F. Powell, Jr. 1972-1987, Associate Justice |
| William H. Rehnquist 1986-2005, Chief Justice 1972-1986, Associate Justice |
John Paul Stevens 1975-2010, Associate Justice |
Sandra Day O'Connor 1981-2005, Associate Justice |
| Antonin Scalia 1986-2016, Associate Justice |
Anthony M. Kennedy 1988-present, Associate Justice |
David H. Souter 1990-2009, Associate Justice |
| Clarence Thomas 1991-present, Associate Justice |
Ruth Bader Ginsburg 1993-present, Associate Justice |
Stephen G. Breyer 1994-present, Associate Justice |
| John G. Roberts, Jr. 2005-present, Chief Justice |
Samuel A. Alito, Jr. 2006-present, Associate Justice |
Sonia Sotomayor 2009-present, Associate Justice |
| Elena Kagan 2010-present, Associate Justice |
Neil M. Gorsuch 2017-present, Associate Justice |
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