⚖️ Judicial Branch
Supreme Court Justices
Every one of the 116 people to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court since it first convened in 1789, appointed for life under Article III of the Constitution.
The Current Court (9)
Chief Justice
John Roberts
Since 2005–present · Appointed by George W. Bush
Clarence Thomas
Since 1991–present · Appointed by George H. W. Bush
Samuel Alito
Since 2006–present · Appointed by George W. Bush
Sonia Sotomayor
Since 2009–present · Appointed by Barack Obama
Elena Kagan
Since 2010–present · Appointed by Barack Obama
Neil Gorsuch
Since 2017–present · Appointed by Donald Trump
Brett Kavanaugh
Since 2018–present · Appointed by Donald Trump
Amy Coney Barrett
Since 2020–present · Appointed by Donald Trump
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Since 2022–present · Appointed by Joe Biden
Historical Justices (107)
Stephen Breyer
1994–2022Ruth Bader Ginsburg
1993–2020David Souter
1990–2009Anthony Kennedy
1988–2018Antonin Scalia
1986–2016Sandra Day O'Connor
1981–2006John Paul Stevens
1975–2010William RehnquistChief Justice
1972–2005Lewis F. Powell Jr.
1972–1987Harry Blackmun
1970–1994Warren E. BurgerChief Justice
1969–1986Thurgood Marshall
1967–1991Abe Fortas
1965–1969Arthur Goldberg
1962–1965Byron White
1962–1993Potter Stewart
1958–1981Charles Evans Whittaker
1957–1962William J. Brennan Jr.
1956–1990John Marshall Harlan II
1955–1971Earl WarrenChief Justice
1953–1969Sherman Minton
1949–1956Tom C. Clark
1949–1967Fred M. VinsonChief Justice
1946–1953Harold H. Burton
1945–1958Wiley Rutledge
1943–1949Robert H. Jackson
1941–1954James F. Byrnes
1941–1942Frank Murphy
1940–1949William O. Douglas
1939–1975Felix Frankfurter
1939–1962Stanley Forman Reed
1938–1957Hugo Black
1937–1971Benjamin N. Cardozo
1932–1938Owen Roberts
1930–1945Harlan F. StoneChief Justice
1925–1946Edward Terry Sanford
1923–1930Pierce Butler
1923–1939George Sutherland
1922–1938William Howard TaftChief Justice
1921–1930John Hessin Clarke
1916–1922Louis Brandeis
1916–1939James Clark McReynolds
1914–1941Mahlon Pitney
1912–1922Joseph Rucker Lamar
1911–1916Willis Van Devanter
1911–1937Charles Evans HughesChief Justice
1910–1941Horace Harmon Lurton
1910–1914William Henry Moody
1906–1910William R. Day
1903–1922Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
1902–1932Joseph McKenna
1898–1925Rufus W. Peckham
1896–1909Edward Douglass WhiteChief Justice
1894–1921Howell E. Jackson
1893–1895George Shiras Jr.
1892–1903Henry Billings Brown
1891–1906David J. Brewer
1890–1910Melville FullerChief Justice
1888–1910Lucius Q. C. Lamar
1888–1893Samuel Blatchford
1882–1893Horace Gray
1882–1902Stanley Matthews
1881–1889William Burnham Woods
1881–1887John Marshall Harlan
1877–1911Morrison WaiteChief Justice
1874–1888Ward Hunt
1873–1882Joseph P. Bradley
1870–1892William Strong
1870–1880Salmon P. ChaseChief Justice
1864–1873Stephen Johnson Field
1863–1897David Davis
1862–1877Samuel Freeman Miller
1862–1890Noah Haynes Swayne
1862–1881Nathan Clifford
1858–1881John Archibald Campbell
1853–1861Benjamin Robbins Curtis
1851–1857Robert Cooper Grier
1846–1870Levi Woodbury
1845–1851Samuel Nelson
1845–1872Peter V. Daniel
1842–1860John McKinley
1838–1852John Catron
1837–1865Philip P. Barbour
1836–1841Roger B. TaneyChief Justice
1836–1864James M. Wayne
1835–1867Henry Baldwin
1830–1844John McLean
1829–1861Robert Trimble
1826–1828Smith Thompson
1823–1843Joseph Story
1812–1845Gabriel Duvall
1811–1835Thomas Todd
1807–1826Henry Brockholst Livingston
1807–1823William Johnson
1804–1834John MarshallChief Justice
1801–1835Alfred Moore
1800–1804Bushrod Washington
1798–1829Oliver EllsworthChief Justice
1796–1800Samuel Chase
1796–1811William Paterson
1793–1806Thomas Johnson
1791–1793James Iredell
1790–1799John Blair Jr.
1790–1795James Wilson
1789–1798William Cushing
1790–1810John RutledgeChief Justice
1790–1795John JayChief Justice
1789–1795