Timeline of the Justices
Chief Justices
John Jay, 1789-1795
John Rutledge, 1795
Oliver Ellsworth, 1796-1800
John Marshall, 1801-1835
Roger Brooke Taney, 1836-1864
Salmon Portland Chase, 1864-1873
Morrison R. Waite, 1874-1888
Melville Weston Fuller, 1888-1910
Edward Douglas White, 1910-1921
William Howard Taft, 1921-1930
Charles Evans Hughes, 1930-1941
Harlan Fiske Stone, 1941-1946
Fred M. Vinson, 1946-1953
Earl Warren, 1953-1969
Warren E. Burger, 1969-1986
William H. Rehnquist, 1986-2005
Associate Justices
James Wilson, 1789-1798
John Blair, Jr., 1790-1796
Thomas Johnson, 1792-1793
Samuel Chase, 1796-1811
Alfred Moore, 1800-1804
H. Brockholst Livingston, 1807-1823
Gabriel Duvall, 1811-1835
Smith Thompson, 1823-1843
John McLean, 1829-1861
James M. Wayne, 1835-1867
John Catron, 1837-1865
Peter V. Daniel, 1842-1860
Levi Woodbury, 1845-1851
Benjamin R. Curtis, 1851-1857
Nathan Clifford, 1858-1881
Samuel F. Miller, 1862-1890
Stephen J. Field, 1863-1897
Joseph P. Bradley, 1870-1892
John Marshall Harlan, 1877-1911
Stanley Matthews, 1881-1889
Samuel Blatchford, 1882-1893
David J. Brewer, 1890-1910
George Shiras, Jr., 1892-1903
Rufus W. Peckham, 1896-1909
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1902-1932
William H. Moody, 1906-1910
Willis Van Devanter, 1911-1937
Mahlon Pitney, 1912-1922
Louis D. Brandeis, 1916-1939
George Sutherland, 1922-1938
Edward T. Sanford, 1923-1930
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, 1932-1938
Stanley F. Reed, 1938-1957
William O. Douglas, 1939-1975
James F. Byrnes, 1941-1942
Wiley B. Rutledge, 1943-1949
Tom C. Clark, 1949-1967
John Marshall Harlan II, 1955-1971
Charles E. Whittaker, 1957-1962
Byron R. White, 1962-1993
Abe Fortas, 1965-1969
Harry A. Blackmun, 1970-1994
Sandra Day O'Connor, 1981-2006
John Paul Stevens, 1975-2010
William Cushing, 1790-1810
James Iredell, 1790-1799
William Paterson, 1793-1806
Bushrod Washington, 1799-1829
William Johnson, 1804-1834
Thomas Todd, 1807-1826
Joseph Story, 1812-1845
Robert Trimble, 1826-1828
Henry Baldwin, 1830-1844
Philip P. Barbour, 1836-1841
John McKinley, 1838-1852
Samuel Nelson, 1845-1872
Robert C. Grier, 1846-1870
John A. Campbell, 1853-1861
Noah H. Swayne, 1862-1881
David Davis, 1862-1877
William Strong, 1870-1880
Ward Hunt, 1873-1882
William B. Woods, 1881-1887
Horace Gray, 1882-1902
Lucius Q. C. Lamar, 1888-1893
Henry B. Brown, 1891-1906
Howell E. Jackson, 1893-1895
Joseph McKenna, 1898-1925
William R. Day, 1903-1922
Horace H. Lurton, 1910-1914
Joseph Rucker Lamar, 1911-1916
James Clark McReynolds, 1914-1941
John H. Clarke, 1916-1922
Pierce Butler, 1923-1939
Owen J. Roberts, 1930-1945
Hugo Black, 1937-1971
Felix Frankfurter, 1939-1962
Frank W. Murphy, 1940-1949
Robert H. Jackson, 1941-1954
Harold H. Burton, 1945-1958
Sherman Minton, 1949-1956
William J. Brennan, Jr., 1956-1990
Potter Stewart, 1958-1981
Arthur J. Goldberg, 1962-1965
Thurgood Marshall, 1967-1991
Lewis F. Powell, Jr., 1972-1987
David H. Souter, 1990-2009
All portraits courtesy of the Supreme Court of the United States
