| 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 | 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 |
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