US Supreme Court Justices List

8/9/2019 US Supreme Court Justices List

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U.S. Supreme Court Justices

Active Term as Reason for

No. Judge State Born/Died Service Chief Justice Retirement Appointed by Termination

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1 James Wilson PA 17421798 17891798 Washington Death

2 John Jay NY 17451829 17891795 17891795 Washington Resignation

3 William Cushing MA 17321810 17901810 Washington Death

4 John Blair, Jr. VA 17321800 17901795 Washington Resignation

5 John Rutledge SC 17391800 17901791 Washington Resignation

6 James Iredell NC

17511799 17901799 Washington Death7 Thomas Johnson* MD 17321819 17921793 Washington Resignation

8 William Paterson NJ 17451806 17931806 Washington Death

5 John Rutledge* SC 17391800 1795 1795 Washington Rejection

9 Samuel Chase MD 17411811 17961811 Washington Death

10 Oliver Ellsworth CT 17451807 17961800 17961800 Washington Resignation

11 Bushrod Washington VA 17621829 17981829 Adams, J. Death

12 Alfred Moore NC 17551810 18001804 Adams, J. Resignation

13 John Marshall VA 17551835 18011835 18011835 Adams, J. Death

14 William Johnson SC 17711834 18041834 Jefferson Death

15 Henry Brockholst Livingston NY 17571823 18071823 Jefferson Death

16 Thomas Todd KY 17651826 18071826 Jefferson Death

17 Gabriel Duvall MD 17521844 18111835 Madison Resignation

18 Joseph Story MA 17791845 18121845 Madison Death

19 Smith Thompson* NY 17681843 18231843 56MonroeDe Monroe Death

20 Robert Trimble KY 17761828 18261828 Adams, J. Q. Death

21 John McLean OH 17851861 18301861 Jackson Death

22 Henry Baldwin PA 17801844 18301844 Jackson Death

23 James Moore Wayne GA 17901867 18351867 Jackson Death

24 Roger B. Taney MD 17771864 18361864 18361864 Jackson Death


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25 Philip Pendleton Barbour VA 17831841 18361841 Jackson Death

26 John Catron TN 17861865 18371865 Jackson Death

27 John McKinley AL 17801852 18371852 Van Buren Death

28 Peter Vivian Daniel VA 17841860 18421860 Van Buren Death

29 Samuel Nelson NY 17921873 18451872 Tyler Retirement

30 Levi Woodbury* NH 17891851 18451851 Polk Death

31 Robert Cooper Grier PA

17941870 18461870 Polk Retirement32 Benjamin Robbins Curtis* MA 18091874 18511857 Fillmore Resignation

33 John Archibald Campbell AL 18111889 18531861 Pierce Resignation

34 Nathan Clifford ME 18031881 18581881 Buchanan Death

35 Noah Haynes Swayne OH 18041884 18621881 Lincoln Retirement

36 Samuel Freeman Miller IA 18161890 18621890 Lincoln Death

37 David Davis* IL 18151886 18621877 Lincoln Resignation

38 Stephen Johnson Field CA 18161899 18631897 Lincoln Retirement

39 Salmon P. Chase OH 18081873 18641873 18641873 Lincoln Death

40 William Strong PA 18081895 18701880 Grant Retirement

41 Joseph P. Bradley NJ 18131892 18701892 Grant Death

42 Ward Hunt NY 18101886 18731882 Grant Retirement

43 Morrison Waite OH 18161888 18741888 18741888 Grant Death

44 John Marshall Harlan KY 18331911 18771911 Hayes Death45 William Burnham Woods AL 18241887 18811887 Hayes Death

46 Stanley Matthews OH 18241889 18811889 Garfield Death

47 Horace Gray MA 18281902 18821902 Arthur Death

48 Samuel Blatchford NY 18201893 18821893 Arthur Death

49Lucius QuintusCincinnatus Lamar

MS 18251893 18881893 Cleveland Death

50 Melville Fuller IL 18331910 18881910 18881910 Cleveland Death


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51 David Josiah Brewer KS 18371910 18901910 Harrison, B. Death

52 Henry Billings Brown MI 18361913 18911906 Harrison, B. Retirement

53 George Shiras, Jr. PA 18321924 18921903 Harrison, B. Retirement

54 Howell Edmunds Jackson TN 18321895 18931895 Harrison, B. Death

55 Edward Douglass White LA 18451921 18941921 19101921 Cleveland (associate)Taft (chief)

Death

56 Rufus Wheeler Peckham NY

18381909 18961909 Cleveland Death57 Joseph McKenna CA 18431926 18981925 1921 (acting) McKinley Retirement

58 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. MA 18411935 19021932 1930 (acting) Roosevelt, T. Retirement

59 William R. Day OH 18491923 19031922 Roosevelt, T. Retirement

60 William Henry Moody MA 18531917 19061910 Roosevelt, T. Retirement

61 Horace Harmon Lurton TN 18441914 19101914 Taft Death

62 Charles Evans Hughes NY 18621948 19101916 Taft Resignation

63 Willis Van Devanter WY 18591941 19111937 19371941 Taft Retirement

64 Joseph Rucker Lamar GA 18571916 19111916 Taft Death

65 Mahlon Pitney NJ 18581924 19121922 Taft Resignation

66 James Clark McReynolds TN 18621946 19141941 19411946 Wilson Retirement

67 Louis Brandeis MA 18561941 19161939 19391941 Wilson Retirement

68 John Hessin Clarke OH 18571945 19161922 Wilson Resignation

69 William Howard Taft OH

18571930 19211930 19211930 Harding Resignation70 George Sutherland UT 18621942 19221938 19381942 Harding Retirement

71 Pierce Butler MN 18661939 19231939 Harding Death

72 Edward Terry Sanford TN 18651930 19231930 Harding Death

73 Harlan F. Stone NY 18721946 19251946 19411946 Coolidge (associate)Roosevelt, F. (chief)

Death

62 Charles Evans Hughes NY 18621948 19301941 19301941 Hoover Retirement

74 Owen Roberts PA 18751955 19301945 Hoover Resignation


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75 Benjamin N. Cardozo NY 18701938 19321938 Hoover Death

76 Hugo Black AL 18861971 19371971 1946 (acting) 19711971 Roosevelt, F. Retirement

77 Stanley Forman Reed KY 18841980 19381957 19571980 Roosevelt, F. Retirement

78 Felix Frankfurter MA 18821965 19391962 19621965 Roosevelt, F. Retirement

79 William O. Douglas WA 18981980 19391975 19751980 Roosevelt, F. Retirement

80 Frank Murphy MI 18901949 19401949 Roosevelt, F. Death

81 James F. Byrnes SC

18791972 19411942 Roosevelt, F. Resignation82 Robert H. Jackson NY 18921954 19411954 Roosevelt, F. Death

83 Wiley Blount Rutledge IA 18941949 19431949 Roosevelt, F. Death

84 Harold Hitz Burton OH 18881964 19451958 19581964 Truman Retirement

85 Fred M. Vinson KY 18901953 19461953 19461953 Truman Death

86 Tom C. Clark TX 18991977 19491967 19671977 Truman Retirement

87 Sherman Minton IN 18901965 19491956 19561965 Truman Retirement

88 Earl Warren* CA 18911974 19531969 19531969 19691974 Eisenhower Retirement

89 John Marshall Harlan II NY 18991971 19551971 19711971 Eisenhower Retirement

90 William J. Brennan, Jr.* NJ 19061997 19561990 19901997 Eisenhower Retirement

91 Charles Evans Whittaker MO 19011973 19571962 19621965 Eisenhower Resignation

92 Potter Stewart* OH 19151985 19581981 19811985 Eisenhower Retirement

93 Byron White CO 19172002 19621993 19932002 Kennedy Retirement

94 Arthur Goldberg IL 19081990 19621965 Kennedy Resignation95 Abe Fortas TN 19101982 19651969 Johnson, L. Resignation

96 Thurgood Marshall NY 19081993 19671991 19911993 Johnson, L. Retirement

97 Warren E. Burger VA 19071995 19691986 19691986 19861995 Nixon Retirement

98 Harry Blackmun MN 19081999 19701994 19941999 Nixon Retirement

99 Lewis F. Powell, Jr. VA 19071998 19721987 19871998 Nixon Retirement

100 William Rehnquist AZ/VA 19242005 19722005 19862005 Nixon (associate)

Reagan (chief) Death


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101 John Paul Stevens IL 1920present 19752010 2005 (acting) 2010present Ford Retirement

102 Sandra Day O'Connor AZ 1930present 19812006 2006present Reagan Retirement

103 Antonin Scalia VA 1936present 1986present Reagan Currently serving

104 Anthony Kennedy CA 1936present 1988present Reagan Currently serving

105 David Hackett Souter NH 1939present 19902009 2009present Bush, G. H. W. Retirement

106 Clarence Thomas GA 1948present 1991present Bush, G. H. W. Currently serving

107 Ruth Bader Ginsburg NY

1933present 1993present Clinton Currently serving108 Stephen Breyer MA 1938present 1994present Clinton Currently serving

109 John G. Roberts MD 1955present 2005present 2005present Bush, G. W. Currently serving

110 Samuel Alito NJ 1950present 2006present Bush, G. W. Currently serving

111 Sonia Sotomayor NY 1954present 2009present Obama 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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