The United States
Supreme Court Justices

The following are the justices who have served on the United States Supreme Court.

Chief Justices

Name	State App't From	Appointed by President	Judicial Oath Taken	Date Service Terminated
John Jay	New York	George Washington	19 October 1789	29 June 1795
John Rutledge	South Carolina	George Washington	12 August 1795	15 December 1795
Oliver Ellsworth	Connecticut	George Washington	8 March 1796	15 December 1800
John Marshall	Virginia	John Adams	4 February 1796	6 July 1835
Roger Brooke Taney	Maryland	Andrew Jackson	28 March 1836	12 October 1864
Salmon Portland Chase	Ohio	Abraham Lincoln	15 December 1864	7 May 1873
Morrison Remick Waite	Ohio	Ulysses Simpson Grant	4 March 1874	23 March 1888
Melville Weston Fuller	Illinois	Grover Cleveland	8 October 1888	4 July 1910
Edward Douglass White	Louisiana	William Howard Taft	19 December 1910	19 May 1921
William Howard Taft	Connecticut	Warren Gamaliel Harding	11 July 1921	3 February 1930
Charles Evans Hughes	New York	Herbert Clark Hoover	24 February 1930	30 June 1941
Harlan Fiske Stone	New York	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	3 July 1941	22 April 1946
Fred Moore Vinson	Kentucky	Harry S. Truman	24 June 1946	8 September 1953
Earl Warren	California	Dwight David Eisenhower	5 October 1953	23 June 1969
Warren Earl Burger	Virginia	Richard Milhous Nixon	23 June 1969	26 September 1986
William H. Rehnguist	Virginia	Ronald Wilson Reagan	26 September 1986	3 September 2005
John G. Roberts	Maryland	George W. Bush	29 September 2005

Associate Justices

Name	State App't From	Appointed by President	Judicial Oath Taken	Date Service Terminated
John Rutledge	South Carolina	George Washington	15 February 1790	5 March 1791
William Cushing	Massachusetts	George Washington	2 February 1790	13 September 1810
James Wilson	Pennsylvania	George Washington	5 October 1789	21 August 1798
John Blair	Virginia	George Washington	2 February 1790	25 October 1795
James Iredell	North Carolina	George Washington	12 May 1790	20 October 1799
Thomas Johnson	Maryland	George Washington	6 August 1792	16 January 1793
William Paterson	New Jersey	George Washington	11 March 1793	9 September 1806
Samuel Chase	Maryland	George Washington	4 February 1796	19 June 1811
Bushrod Washington	Virginia	John Adams	4 February 1799	26 November 1829
Alfred Moore	North Carolina	John Adams	21 April 1800	26 January 1804
William Johnson	South Carolina	Thomas Jefferson	7 May 1804	4 August 1834
Henry Brockholst Livingston	New York	Thomas Jefferson	20 January 1807	18 March 1823
Thomas Todd	Kentucky	Thomas Jefferson	4 May 1807	7 February 1826
Gabrial Duvall	Maryland	James Madison	23 November 1811	14 January 1835
Joseph Story	Massachusetts	James Madison	3 February 1812	10 September 1845
Smith Thompson	New York	James Monroe	1 September 1823	18 December 1843
Robert Trimble	Kentucky	John Quincy Adams	16 June 1826	25 August 1828
John McLean	Ohio	Andrew Jackson	11 January 1830	4 April 1861
Henry Baldwin	Pennsylvania	Andrew Jackson	18 January 1836	21 April 1844
James Moore Wayne	Georgia	Andrew Jackson	14 January 1835	5 July 1867
Philip Pendleton Barbour	Virginia	Andrew Jackson	12 May 1836	25 February 1841
John Catron	Tennessee	Martin Van Buren	1 May 1837	30 May 1865
John McKinley	Alabama	Martin Van Buren	9 January 1839	19 July 1852
Peter Vivian Daniel	Virginia	Martin Van Buren	10 January 1842	31 May 1860
Samuel Nelson	New York	John Tyler	27 February 1845	28 November 1872
Levi Woodbury	New Hampshire	James Knox Polk	23 September 1845	4 September 1851
Robert Cooper Grier	Pennsylvania	James Knox Polk	10 August 1846	31 January 1870
Benjamin Robbins Curtis	Massachusetts	Millard Fillmore	10 October 1851	30 September 1857
John Archibald Campbell	Alabama	Franklin Pierce	11 April 1853	30 April 1861
Nathan Clifford	Maine	James Buchanan	21 January 1858	25 July 1881
Noah Haynes Swayne	Ohio	Abraham Lincoln	27 January 1862	24 January 1881
Samuel Freeman Miller	Iowa	Abraham Lincoln	21 July 1862	13 October 1890
David Davis	Illinois	Abraham Lincoln	10 December 1862	4 March 1877
Stephen Johnson Field	California	Abraham Lincoln	20 May 1863	1 December 1897
William Strong	Pennsylvania	Ulysses Simpson Grant	14 March 1870	14 December 1880
Joseph P. Bradley	New Jersey	Ulysses Simpson Grant	23 March 1870	22 January 1892
Ward Hurt	New York	Ulysses Simpson Grant	9 January 1873	27 January 1882
John Marshall Harlan	Kentucky	Rutherford Birchard Hayes	10 December 1877	14 October 1911
William Burnham Woods	Georgia	Rutherford Birchard Hayes	5 January 1881	14 May 1887
Stanley Matthews	Ohio	James Abram Garfield	17 May 1881	22 March 1889
Horace Gray	Massachusetts	Chester Alan Arthur	8 January 1882	15 September 1902
Samuel Blatchford	New York	Chester Alan Arthur	3 April 1882	7 July 1893
Lucius Quintus C. Lamar	Mississippi	Grover Cleveland	18 January 1888	23 January 1893
David Josiah Brewer	Kansas	Benjamin Harrison	6 January 1890	28 March 1910
Henry Billings Brown	Michigan	Benjamin Harrison	5 January 1891	28 May 1906
George Shiras, Jr.	Pennsylvania	Benjamin Harrison	10 October 1892	23 February 1903
Howell Edmunds Jackson	Tennessee	Benjamin Harrison	4 March 1893	8 August 1895
Edward Douglass White	Louisiana	Grover Cleveland	12 March 1894	18 December 1910
Rufus Wheeler Peckham	New York	Grover Cleveland	6 January 1896	24 October 1909
Joseph McKenna	California	William McKinley	26 January 1898	5 January 1925
Oliver Wendell Holmes	Massachusetts	Theodore Roosevelt	8 December 1902	12 January 1932
William Rufus Day	Ohio	Theodore Roosevelt	2 March 1903	13 November 1922
William Henry Moody	Massachusetts	Theodore Roosevelt	17 December 1906	20 November 1910
Horace Harmon Lurton	Tennessee	William Howard Taft	3 January 1910	12 July 1914
Charles Evans Hughes	New York	William Howard Taft	10 October 1910	10 June 1916
Willis Van Devanter	Wyoming	William Howard Taft	3 January 1911	2 June 1937
Joseph Rucker Lamar	Georgia	William Howard Taft	3 January 1911	2 January 1916
Mahlon Pitney	New Jersey	William Howard Taft	18 March 1912	31 December 1922
James Clark McReynolds	Tennessee	Woodrow Wilson	12 October 1914	31 January 1941
Louis Dembitz Brandeis	Massachusetts	Woodrow Wilson	5 June 1916	13 February 1939
John Hessin Clarke	Ohio	Woodrow Wilson	9 October 1916	18 September 1922
George Sutherland	Utah	Warren Gamaliel Harding	2 October 1922	17 January 1938
Pierce Butler	Minnesota	Warren Gamaliel Harding	2 January 1923	16 November 1939
Edward Terry Sanford	Tennessee	Warren Gamaliel Harding	19 February 1923	8 March 1930
Harlan Fiske Stone	New York	Calvin Coolidge	2 March 1925	2 July 1941
Owen Joseohus Roberts	Pennsylvania	Herbert Clark Hoover	2 June 1930	31 July 1945
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo	New York	Herbert Clark Hoover	14 March 1932	9 July 1938
Hugo Lafayette Black	Alabama	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	19 August 1937	17 September 1971
Stanley Forman Reed	Kentucky	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	31 January 1938	25 February 1957
Felix Frankfurter	Massachusetts	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	30 January 1939	28 August 1962
William Orville Douglas	Connecticut	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	17 April 1939	12 November 1975
Frank Murphy	Michigan	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	5 February 1940	19 July 1949
James Francis Byrnes	South Carolina	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	8 July 1941	3 October 1942
Robert Houghwout Jackson	New York	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	11 July 1941	9 October 1954
Wiley Blount Ruthledge	Iowa	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	15 February 1943	10 September 1949
Harold Hitz Burton	Ohio	Harry S. Truman	1 October 1945	13 October 1958
Tom Cambell Clark	Texas	Harry S. Truman	24 August 1949	12 June 1967
Sherman Minton	Indiana	Harry S. Truman	12 October 1949	15 October 1956
John Marshall Harlan	New York	Dwight David Eisenhower	28 March 1955	23 September 1971
William J. Brennan, Jr.	New Jersey	Dwight David Eisenhower	16 October 1956	20 July 1990
Charles Evans Whittaker	Missouri	Dwight David Eisenhower	25 March 1957	31 March 1962
Potter Stewart	Ohio	Dwight David Eisenhower	14 October 1958	3 July 1981
Byron Raymond White	Colorado	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	16 April 1962	28 June 1993
Arthur Joseph Goldberg	Illinois	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	1 October 1962	25 July 1965
Abe Fortas	Tennessee	Lyndon Baines Johnson	4 October 1965	14 May 1969
Thurgood Marshall	New York	Lyndon Baines Johnson	2 October 1967	1 October 1991
Harry A. Blackmun	Minnesota	Richard Milhous Nixon	9 June 1970	3 August 1994
Lewis F. Powell, Jr.	Virginia	Richard Milhous Nixon	7 January 1972	June 26 1987
William H. Rehnquist	Arizona	Richard Milhous Nixon	7 January 1972	26 September 1986
John Paul Stevens	Illinois	Gerald Rudolph Ford	19 December 1975
Sandra Day O'Connor	Arizona	Ronald Wilson Reagan	25 September 1981	31 January 2006
Antonin Scalia	Virginia	Ronald Wilson Reagan	26 September 1986
Anthony M. Kennedy	California	Ronald Wilson Reagan	18 February 1988
David H. Souter	New Hampshire	George Herbert Walker Bush	9 October 1990
Clarence Thomas	Georgia	George Herbert Walker Bush	23 October 1991
Ruth Bader Ginsburg	New York	William Jefferson Clinton	10 August 1993
Stephen G. Breyer	Massachusetts	William Jefferson Clinton	3 August 1994
Samuel A.Alito, Jr.	New Jersey	George W. Bush	31 January 2006