Justices of the Supreme Court

The Justices are listed by year of appointment and in what way they served the court—as an Associate Justice or Chief Justice.

John Jay (Chief: 1789 - 1795)

John Rutledge (Associate: 1790 - 1791, Chief: 1795 - 1795)

William Cushing (Associate: 1790 - 1810)

James Wilson (Associate: 1789 - 1798)

John Blair (Associate: 1790 - 1795)

James Iredell (Associate: 1790 - 1799)

Thomas Johnson (Associate: 1792 - 1793)

William Paterson (Associate: 1793 - 1806)

Samuel Chase (Associate: 1796 - 1811)

Oliver Ellsworth (Chief: 1796 - 1800)

Bushrod Washington (Associate: 1799 - 1829)

Alfred Moore (Associate: 1800 - 1804)

John Marshall (Chief: 1801 - 1835)

William Johnson (Associate: 1804 - 1834)

Brockholst Livingston (Associate: 1807 - 1823)

Thomas Todd (Associate: 1807 - 1826)

Gabriel Duvall (Associate: 1811 - 1835)

Joseph Story (Associate: 1812 - 1845)

Smith Thompson (Associate: 1823 - 1843)

Robert Trimble (Associate: 1826 - 1828)

John McLean (Associate: 1830 - 1861)

Henry Baldwin (Associate: 1830 - 1844)

James M. Wayne (Associate: 1835 - 1867)

Roger B. Taney (Chief: 1836 - 1864)

Philip P. Barbour (Associate: 1836 - 1841)

John Catron (Associate: 1837 - 1865)

John McKinley (Associate: 1838 - 1852)

Peter V. Daniel (Associate: 1842 - 1860)

Samuel Nelson (Associate: 1845 - 1872)

Levi Woodbury (Associate: 1845 - 1851)

Robert C. Grier (Associate: 1846 - 1870)

Benjamin R. Curtis (Associate: 1851 - 1857)

John A. Campbell (Associate: 1853 - 1861)

Nathan Clifford (Associate: 1858 - 1881)

Noah Swayne (Associate: 1862 - 1881)

Samuel F. Miller (Associate: 1862 - 1890)

David Davis (Associate: 1862 - 1877)

Stephen J. Field (Associate: 1863 - 1897)

Salmon P. Chase (Chief: 1864 - 1873)

William Strong (Associate: 1870 - 1880)

Joseph P. Bradley (Associate: 1870 - 1892)

Ward Hunt (Associate: 1873 - 1882)

Morrison R. Waite (Chief: 1874 - 1888)

John M. Harlan (Associate: 1877 - 1911)

William B. Woods (Associate: 1881 - 1887)

Stanley Matthews (Associate: 1881 - 1889)

Horace Gray (Associate: 1882 - 1902)

Samuel Blatchford (Associate: 1882 - 1893)

Lucius Q.C. Lamar (Associate: 1888 - 1893)

Melville W. Fuller (Chief: 1888 - 1910)

David J. Brewer (Associate: 1890 - 1910)

Henry B. Brown (Associate: 1891 - 1906)

George Shiras, Jr. (Associate: 1892 - 1903)

Howell E. Jackson (Associate: 1893 - 1895)

Edward D. White (Associate: 1894 - 1910, Chief: 1910 - 1921)

Rufus Peckham (Associate: 1896 - 1909)

Joseph McKenna (Associate: 1898 - 1925)

Oliver W. Holmes, Jr. (Associate: 1902 - 1932)

William R. Day (Associate: 1903 - 1922)

William H. Moody (Associate: 1906 - 1910)

Horace H. Lurton (Associate: 1910 - 1914)

Charles E. Hughes (Associate: 1910 - 1916, Chief: 1930 - 1941)

Willis Van Devanter (Associate: 1911 - 1937)

Joseph R. Lamar (Associate: 1911 - 1916)

Mahlon Pitney (Associate: 1912 - 1922)

James C. McReynolds (Associate: 1914 - 1941)

Louis D. Brandeis (Associate: 1916 - 1939)

John H. Clarke (Associate: 1916 - 1922)

William Howard Taft (Chief: 1921 - 1930)

George Sutherland (Associate: 1922 - 1938)

Pierce Butler (Associate: 1923 - 1939)

Edward T. Sanford (Associate: 1923 - 1930)

Harlan Fiske Stone (Associate: 1925 - 1941, Chief: 1941 - 1946)

Owen J. Roberts (Associate: 1930 - 1945)

Benjamin N. Cardozo (Associate: 1932 - 1938)

Hugo L. Black (Associate: 1937 - 1971)

Stanley Reed (Associate: 1938 - 1957)

Felix Frankfurter (Associate: 1939 - 1962)

William O. Douglas (Associate: 1939 - 1975)

Frank Murphy (Associate: 1940 - 1949)

James F. Byrnes (Associate: 1941 - 1942)

Robert H. Jackson (Associate: 1941 - 1954)

Wiley B. Rutledge (Associate: 1943 - 1949)

Harold Burton (Associate: 1945 - 1958)

Fred M. Vinson (Chief: 1946 - 1953)

Tom C. Clark (Associate: 1949 - 1967)

Sherman Minton (Associate: 1949 - 1956)

Earl Warren (Chief: 1953 - 1969)

John M. Harlan (Associate: 1955 - 1971)

William J. Brennan (Associate: 1956 - 1990)

Charles E. Whittaker (Associate: 1957 - 1962)

Potter Stewart (Associate: 1959 - 1981)

Byron R. White (Associate: 1962 - 1993)

Arthur J. Goldberg (Associate: 1962 - 1965)

Abe Fortas (Associate: 1965 - 1969)

Thurgood Marshall (Associate: 1967 - 1991)

Warren E. Burger (Chief: 1969 - 1986)

Harry A. Blackmun (Associate: 1970 - 1994)

Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (Associate: 1972 - 1987)

William H. Rehnquist (Associate: 1972 - 1986, Chief: 1986 - ) John Paul Stevens (Associate: 1975 - )

Sandra Day O'Connor (Associate: 1981 - )

Antonin Scalia (Associate: 1986 - )

Anthony Kennedy (Associate: 1988 - )

David H. Souter (Associate: 1990 - )

Clarence Thomas (Associate: 1991 - )

Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Associate: 1993 - )

Stephen Gerald Breyer (Associate: 1994 - )