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

 

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