Supreme Court Justice Position Start End Time Appointed by
1 John Jay Chief 19OCT1789 29JUN1795 5 years, 253 days (Resigned) George Washington
2 John Rutledge Associate 15FEB1790 04MAR1791 1 year, 17 days (Resigned) George Washington
3 William Cushing Associate 02FEB1790 13SEP1810 20 years, 223 days (Died) George Washington
4 James Wilson Associate 05OCT1789 21AUG1798 8 years, 320 days (Died) George Washington
5 John Blair Associate 02FEB1790 25OCT1795 5 years, 265 days (Resigned) George Washington
6 James Iredell Associate 12MAY1790 20OCT1799 9 years, 161 days (Died) George Washington
7 Thomas Johnson Associate 06AUG1792 16JAN1793 163 days (Resigned) George Washington
8 William Paterson Associate 11MAR1793 08SEP1806 13 years, 181 days (Died) George Washington
2 John Rutledge Chief 12AUG1795 28DEC1795 138 days (Resigned, nomination having been rejected) George Washington
9 Samuel Chase Associate 04FEB1796 19JUN1811 15 years, 135 days (Died) George Washington
10 Oliver Ellsworth Chief 08MAR1796 15DEC1800 4 years, 282 days (Resigned) George Washington
11 Bushrod Washington Associate 09NOV1798 26NOV1829 31 years, 17 days (Died) John Adams
12 Alfred Moore Associate 21APR1800 26JAN1804 3 years, 280 days (Resigned) John Adams
13 John Marshall Chief 04FEB1801 06JUL1835 34 years, 152 days (Died) John Adams
14 William Johnson Associate 07MAY1804 04AUG1834 30 years, 89 days (Died) Thomas Jefferson
15 Henry Brockholst Livingston Associate 20JAN1807 18MAR1823 16 years, 57 days (Died) Thomas Jefferson
16 Thomas Todd Associate 03MAR1807 07FEB1826 18 years, 341 days (Died) Thomas Jefferson
17 Gabriel Duvall Associate 23NOV1811 12JAN1835 23 years, 50 days (Resigned) James Madison
18 Joseph Story Associate 03FEB1812 10SEP1845 33 years, 219 days (Died) James Madison
19 Smith Thompson Associate 01SEP1823 18DEC1843 20 years, 108 days (Died) James Monroe
20 Robert Trimble Associate 16JUN1826 25AUG1828 2 years, 70 days (Died) John Quincy Adams
21 John McLean Associate 11JAN1830 04APR1861 31 years, 83 days (Died) Andrew Jackson
22 Henry Baldwin Associate 18JAN1830 21APR1844 14 years, 94 days (Died) Andrew Jackson
23 James Moore Wayne Associate 14JAN1835 05JUL1867 32 years, 172 days (Died) Andrew Jackson
24 Roger B. Taney Chief 28MAR1836 12OCT1864 28 years, 198 days (Died) Andrew Jackson
25 Philip Pendleton Barbour Associate 12MAY1836 25FEB1841 4 years, 289 days (Died) Andrew Jackson
26 John Catron Associate 01MAY1837 30MAY1865 28 years, 29 days (Died) Andrew Jackson
27 John McKinley Associate 09JAN1838 19JUL1852 14 years, 192 days (Died) Martin Van Buren
28 Peter Vivian Daniel Associate 10JAN1842 31MAY1860 18 years, 142 days (Died) Martin Van Buren
29 Samuel Nelson Associate 27FEB1845 28NOV1872 27 years, 275 days (Retired) John Tyler
30 Levi Woodbury Associate 23SEP1845 04SEP1851 5 years, 346 days (Died) James K. Polk
31 Robert Cooper Grier Associate 10AUG1846 31JAN1870 23 years, 174 days (Retired) James K. Polk
32 Benjamin Robbins Curtis Associate 10OCT1851 30SEP1857 5 years, 355 days (Resigned) Millard Fillmore
33 John Archibald Campbell Associate 11APR1853 30APR1861 8 years, 19 days (Resigned) Franklin Pierce
34 Nathan Clifford Associate 21JAN1858 25JUL1881 23 years, 185 days (Died) James Buchanan
35 Noah Haynes Swayne Associate 27JAN1862 24JAN1881 18 years, 363 days (Retired) Abraham Lincoln
36 Samuel Freeman Miller Associate 21JUL1862 13OCT1890 28 years, 84 days (Died) Abraham Lincoln
37 David Davis Associate 10DEC1862 04MAR1877 14 years, 84 days (Resigned) Abraham Lincoln
38 Stephen Johnson Field Associate 10MAY1863 01DEC1897 34 years, 205 days (Retired) Abraham Lincoln
39 Salmon P. Chase Chief 15DEC1864 07MAY1873 8 years, 143 days (Died) Abraham Lincoln
40 William Strong Associate 14MAR1870 14DEC1880 10 years, 275 days (Retired) Ulysses S. Grant
41 Joseph Philo Bradley Associate 23MAR1870 22JAN1892 21 years, 305 days (Died) Ulysses S. Grant
42 Ward Hunt Associate 09JAN1873 27JAN1882 9 years, 18 days (Retired) Ulysses S. Grant
43 Morrison Waite Chief 04MAR1874 23MAR1888 14 years, 19 days (Died) Ulysses S. Grant
44 John Marshall Harlan Associate 10DEC1877 14OCT1911 33 years, 308 days (Died) Rutherford B. Hayes
45 William Burnham Woods Associate 05JAN1881 14MAY1887 6 years, 129 days (Died) Rutherford B. Hayes
46 Stanley Matthews Associate 17MAY1881 22MAR1889 7 years, 309 days (Died) James Garfield
47 Horace Gray Associate 09JAN1882 15SEP1902 20 years, 249 days (Died) Chester A. Arthur
48 Samuel Blatchford Associate 03APR1882 07JUL1893 11 years, 95 days (Died) Chester A. Arthur
49 Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Associate 18JAN1888 23JAN1893 5 years, 5 days (Died) Grover Cleveland
50 Melville Fuller Chief 08OCT1888 04JUL1910 21 years, 269 days (Died) Grover Cleveland
51 David Josiah Brewer Associate 06JAN1890 28MAR1910 20 years, 81 days (Died) Benjamin Harrison
52 Henry Billings Brown Associate 05JAN1891 28MAY1906 16 years, 143 days (Retired) Benjamin Harrison
53 George Shiras, Jr. Associate 10OCT1892 23FEB1903 10 years, 136 days (Retired) Benjamin Harrison
54 Howell Edmunds Jackson Associate 04MAR1893 08AUG1895 2 years, 157 days (Died) Benjamin Harrison
55 Edward Douglass White Associate 12MAR1894 18DEC1910 16 years, 281 days (Continued as chief justice) Grover Cleveland
56 Rufus Wheeler Peckham Associate 06JAN1896 24OCT1909 13 years, 291 days (Died) Grover Cleveland
57 Joseph McKenna Associate 26JAN1898 05JAN1925 26 years, 345 days (Retired) William McKinley
58 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Associate 08DEC1902 12JAN1932 29 years, 35 days (Retired) Theodore Roosevelt
59 William R. Day Associate 02MAR1903 13NOV1922 19 years, 256 days (Retired) Theodore Roosevelt
60 William Henry Moody Associate 17DEC1906 20NOV1910 3 years, 338 days (Retired) Theodore Roosevelt
61 Horace Harmon Lurton Associate 03JAN1910 12JUL1914 4 years, 204 days (Died) William Howard Taft
62 Charles Evans Hughes Associate 10OCT1910 10JUN1916 5 years, 244 days (Resigned) William Howard Taft
55 Edward Douglass White Chief 19DEC1910 19MAY1921 10 years, 151 days (Died) William Howard Taft
63 Willis Van Devanter Associate 03JAN1911 02JUN1937 26 years, 150 days (Retired) William Howard Taft
64 Joseph Rucker Lamar Associate 03JAN1911 02JAN1916 4 years, 364 days (Died) William Howard Taft
65 Mahlon Pitney Associate 18MAR1912 31DEC1922 10 years, 288 days (Resigned) William Howard Taft
66 James Clark McReynolds Associate 12OCT1914 31JAN1941 26 years, 111 days (Retired) Woodrow Wilson
67 Louis Brandeis Associate 05JUN1916 13FEB1939 22 years, 253 days (Retired) Woodrow Wilson
68 John Hessin Clarke Associate 09OCT1916 18SEP1922 5 years, 344 days (Retired) Woodrow Wilson
69 William Howard Taft Chief 11JUL1921 03FEB1930 8 years, 207 days (Retired) Warren G. Harding
70 George Sutherland Associate 02OCT1922 17JAN1938 15 years, 107 days (Retired) Warren G. Harding
71 Pierce Butler Associate 02JAN1923 16NOV1939 16 years, 318 days (Died) Warren G. Harding
72 Edward Terry Sanford Associate 19FEB1923 08MAR1930 7 years, 17 days (Died) Warren G. Harding
73 Harlan F. Stone Associate 02MAR1925 02JUL1941 16 years, 122 days (Continued as chief justice) Calvin Coolidge
62 Charles Evans Hughes Chief 24FEB1930 30JUN1941 11 years, 126 days (Retired) Herbert Hoover
74 Owen Josephus Roberts Associate 02JUN1930 31JUL1945 15 years, 59 days (Resigned) Herbert Hoover
75 Benjamin N. Cardozo Associate 14MAR1932 09JUL1938 6 years, 117 days (Died) Herbert Hoover
76 Hugo Black Associate 19AUG1937 17SEP1971 34 years, 29 days (Retired) Franklin D. Roosevelt
77 Stanley Forman Reed Associate 31JAN1938 25FEB1957 19 years, 25 days (Retired) Franklin D. Roosevelt
78 Felix Frankfurter Associate 30JAN1939 28AUG1962 23 years, 210 days (Retired) Franklin D. Roosevelt
79 William O. Douglas Associate 17APR1939 12NOV1975 36 years, 211 days (Retired) Franklin D. Roosevelt
80 Frank Murphy Associate 05FEB1940 19JUL1949 9 years, 164 days (Died) Franklin D. Roosevelt
73 Harlan F. Stone Chief 03JUL1941 22APR1946 4 years, 293 days (Died) Franklin D. Roosevelt
81 James F. Byrnes Associate 08JUL1941 03OCT1942 1 year, 87 days (Resigned) Franklin D. Roosevelt
82 Robert H. Jackson Associate 11JUL1941 09OCT1954 13 years, 90 days (Died) Franklin D. Roosevelt
83 Wiley Blount Rutledge Associate 15FEB1943 10SEP1949 6 years, 207 days (Died) Franklin D. Roosevelt
84 Harold Hitz Burton Associate 01OCT1945 13OCT1958 13 years, 12 days (Retired) Harry S. Truman
85 Fred M. Vinson Chief 24JUN1946 08SEP1953 7 years, 76 days (Died) Harry S. Truman
86 Tom C. Clark Associate 24AUG1949 12JUN1967 17 years, 292 days (Retired) Harry S. Truman
87 Sherman Minton Associate 12OCT1949 15OCT1956 7 years, 3 days (Retired) Harry S. Truman
88 Earl Warren Chief 05OCT1953 23JUN1969 15 years, 261 days (Retired) Dwight D. Eisenhower
89 John Marshall Harlan II Associate 28MAR1955 23SEP1971 16 years, 179 days (Retired) Dwight D. Eisenhower
90 William J. Brennan Associate 16OCT1956 20JUL1990 33 years, 277 days (Retired) Dwight D. Eisenhower
91 Charles Evans Whittaker Associate 25MAR1957 31MAR1962 5 years, 6 days (Resigned) Dwight D. Eisenhower
92 Potter Stewart Associate 14OCT1958 03JUL1981 22 years, 262 days (Retired) Dwight D. Eisenhower
93 Byron White Associate 16APR1962 28JUN1993 31 years, 73 days (Retired) John F. Kennedy
94 Arthur Goldberg Associate 01OCT1962 25JUL1965 2 years, 300 days (Resigned) John F. Kennedy
95 Abe Fortas Associate 04OCT1965 14MAY1969 3 years, 222 days (Resigned) Lyndon B. Johnson
96 Thurgood Marshall Associate 02OCT1967 01OCT1991 23 years, 364 days (Retired) Lyndon B. Johnson
97 Warren E. Burger Chief 23JUN1969 26SEP1986 17 years, 95 days (Retired) Richard Nixon
98 Harry Blackmun Associate 09JUN1970 03AUG1994 24 years, 55 days (Retired) Richard Nixon
99 Lewis F. Powell Jr. Associate 07JAN1972 26JUN1987 15 years, 170 days (Retired) Richard Nixon
100 William Rehnquist Associate 07JAN1972 26SEP1986 14 years, 262 days (Continued as chief justice) Richard Nixon
101 John Paul Stevens Associate 19DEC1975 29JUN2010 34 years, 192 days (Retired) Gerald Ford
102 Sandra Day O'Connor Associate 25SEP1981 31JAN2006 24 years, 128 days (Retired) Ronald Reagan
100 William Rehnquist Chief 26SEP1986 03SEP2005 18 years, 342 days (Died) Ronald Reagan
103 Antonin Scalia Associate 26SEP1986 13FEB2016 29 years, 140 days (Died) Ronald Reagan
104 Anthony Kennedy Associate 18FEB1988 31JUL2018 30 years, 163 days (Retired) Ronald Reagan
105 David Souter Associate 09OCT1990 29JUN2009 18 years, 263 days (Retired) George H. W. Bush
106 Clarence Thomas Associate 23OCT1991 10OCT2018 26 years, 352 days Incumbent George H. W. Bush
107 Ruth Bader Ginsburg Associate 10AUG1993 10OCT2018 25 years, 61 days Incumbent Bill Clinton
108 Stephen Breyer Associate 03AUG1994 10OCT2018 24 years, 68 days Incumbent Bill Clinton
109 John Roberts Chief 29SEP2005 10OCT2018 13 years, 11 days Incumbent George W. Bush
110 Samuel Alito Associate 31JAN2006 10OCT2018 12 years, 252 days Incumbent George W. Bush
111 Sonia Sotomayor Associate 08AUG2009 10OCT2018 9 years, 63 days Incumbent Barack Obama
112 Elena Kagan Associate 07AUG2010 10OCT2018 8 years, 64 days Incumbent Barack Obama
113 Neil Gorsuch Associate 10APR2017 10OCT2018 1 year, 183 days Incumbent Donald Trump
114 Brett Kavanaugh Associate 06OCT2018 10OCT2018 4 days Incumbent Donald Trump