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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
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
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