Supreme Court Justices

Name Service Appointed by
John Jay* 1789–1795 Washington
James Wilson 1789–1798 Washington
John Blair 1789–1796 Washington
John Rutledge 1790–1791 Washington
William Cushing 1790–1810 Washington
James Iredell 1790–1799 Washington
Thomas Johnson 1791–1793 Washington
William Paterson 1793–1806 Washington
John Rutledge† 1795 Washington
Samuel Chase 1796–1811 Washington
Oliver Ellsworth 1796–1799 Washington
Bushrod Washington 1798–1829 J. Adams
Alfred Moore 1799–1804 J. Adams
John Marshall 1801–1835 J. Adams
William Johnson 1804–1834 Jefferson
Henry B. Livingston 1806–1823 Jefferson
Thomas Todd 1807–1826 Jefferson
Gabriel Duval 1811–1836 Madison
Joseph Story 1811–1845 Madison
Smith Thompson 1823–1843 Monroe
Robert Trimble 1826–1828 J. Q. Adams
John McLean 1829–1861 Jackson
Henry Baldwin 1830–1844 Jackson
James M. Wayne 1835–1867 Jackson
Roger B. Taney 1836–1864 Jackson
Philip P. Barbour 1836–1841 Jackson
John Catron 1837–1865 Van Buren
John McKinley 1837–1852 Van Buren
Peter V. Daniel 1841–1860 Van Buren
Samuel Nelson 1845–1872 Tyler
Levi Woodbury 1845–1851 Polk
Robert C. Grier 1846–1870 Polk
Benjamin R. Curtis 1851–1857 Fillmore
John A. Campbell 1853–1861 Pierce
Nathan Clifford 1858–1881 Buchanan
Noah H. Swayne 1862–1881 Lincoln
Samuel F. Miller 1862–1890 Lincoln
David Davis 1862–1877 Lincoln
Stephen J. Field 1863–1897 Lincoln
Salmon P. Chase 1864–1873 Lincoln
William Strong 1870–1880 Grant
Joseph P. Bradley 1870–1892 Grant
Ward Hunt 1873–1882 Grant
Morrison R. Waite 1874–1888 Grant
John M. Harlan 1877–1911 Hayes
William B. Woods 1880–1887 Hayes
Stanley Matthews 1881–1889 Garfield
Horace Gray 1882–1902 Arthur

Samuel Blatchford

A-27

 1882–1893 Arthur
Lucius Q. C. Lamar 1888–1893 Cleveland
Melville W. Fuller 1888–1910 Cleveland
David J. Brewer 1889–1910 B. Harrison
Henry B. Brown 1890–1906 B. Harrison
George Shiras 1892–1903 B. Harrison
Howell E. Jackson 1893–1895 B. Harrison
Edward D. White 1894–1910 Cleveland
Rufus W. Peckham 1896–1909 Cleveland
Joseph McKenna 1898–1925 McKinley
Oliver W. Holmes 1902–1932 T. Roosevelt
William R. Day 1903–1922 T. Roosevelt
William H. Moody 1906–1910 T. Roosevelt
Horace H. Lurton 1910–1914 Taft
Charles E. Hughes 1910–1916 Taft
Willis Van Devanter 1910–1937 Taft
Edward D. White 1910–1921 Taft
Joseph R. Lamar 1911–1916 Taft
Mahlon Pitney 1912–1922 Taft
James C. McReynolds 1914–1941 Wilson
Louis D. Brandeis 1916–1939 Wilson
John H. Clarke 1916–1922 Wilson
William H. Taft 1921–1930 Harding
George Sutherland 1922–1938 Harding
Pierce Butler 1923–1939 Harding
Edward T. Sanford 1923–1930 Harding
Harlan F. Stone 1925–1941 Coolidge
Charles E. Hughes 1930–1941 Hoover
Owen J. Roberts 1930–1945 Hoover
Benjamin N. Cardozo 1932–1938 Hoover
Hugo L. Black 1937–1971 F. Roosevelt
Stanley F. Reed 1938–1957 F. Roosevelt
Felix Frankfurter 1939–1962 F. Roosevelt
William O. Douglas 1939–1975 F. Roosevelt
Frank Murphy 1940–1949 F. Roosevelt
Harlan F. Stone 1941–1946 F. Roosevelt
James F. Byrnes 1941–1942 F. Roosevelt
Robert H. Jackson 1941–1954 F. Roosevelt
Wiley B. Rutledge 1943–1949 F. Roosevelt
Harold H. Burton 1945–1958 Truman
Frederick M. Vinson 1946–1953 Truman
Tom C. Clark 1949–1967 Truman
Sherman Minton 1949–1956 Truman
Earl Warren 1953–1969 Eisenhower
John Marshall Harlan 1955–1971 Eisenhower
William J. Brennan Jr. 1956–1990 Eisenhower
Charles E. Whittaker 1957–1962 Eisenhower
Potter Stewart 1958–1981 Eisenhower
Byron R. White 1962–1993 Kennedy
Arthur J. Goldberg 1962–1965 Kennedy
Abe Fortas 1965–1969 L. Johnson
Thurgood Marshall 1967–1991 L. Johnson
Warren E. Burger 1969–1986 Nixon
Harry A. Blackmun 1970–1994 Nixon
Lewis F. Powell Jr. 1972–1988 Nixon
William H. Rehnquist 1972–1986 Nixon
John Paul Stevens 1975– Ford
Sandra Day O’Connor 1981–2006 Reagan
William H. Rehnquist 1986–2005 Reagan
Antonin Scalia 1986–2016 Reagan
Anthony M. Kennedy 1988– Reagan
David H. Souter 1990–2009 G. H. W. Bush
Clarence Thomas 1991– G. H. W. Bush
Ruth Bader Ginsburg 1993– Clinton
Stephen Breyer 1994– Clinton
John G. Roberts Jr. 2005– G. W. Bush
Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. 2006– G. W. Bush
Sonia Sotomayor 2009– Obama
Elena Kagan 2010– Obama
SUPREME COURT JUSTICES