Chief Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1789-2009(may beincomplete!) JohnJay 1789-95JohnRutledge 1795OliverEllsworth 1796-1800JohnMarshall 1801-35RogerB. Taney 1836-64SalmonP. Chase 1864-73MorrisonR. Waite 1874-88MelvilleW. Fuller 1888-1910EdwardDouglass White 1910-21WilliamH. Taft 1921-30CharlesEvans Hughes 1930-41HarlanF. Stone 1941-46FredM. Vinson 1946-53EarlWarren 1953-69WarrenE. Burger 1969-86WilliamH. Rehnquist 1986-2005JohnRoberts 2005- Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
1795 Jun 29:JohnJay, resigned. 1800 Sep 30:OliverEllsworth, resigned. 1835 Jul 6:JohnMarshall, died in office. 1864 Oct 12:RogerB. Taney, died in office. 1873 May 7:SalmonP. Chase, died in office. 1910 Jul 4:MelvilleW. Fuller, died in office. 1921 May 19:EdwardDouglass White, died in office. 1930 Feb 3:WilliamH. Taft, resigned. 1946 Apr 22:HarlanF. Stone, died in office. 1953 Sep 8:FredM. Vinson, died in office. 1986 Sep 26:WarrenE. Burger, took senior status. 2005 Sep 3:WilliamH. Rehnquist, died in office.Associate Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1789-2017(may be incomplete!) WilliamCushing 1789-1810JohnRutledge 1789-91JamesWilson 1789-98JohnBlair 1789-95JamesIredell 1790-99ThomasJohnson 1791-93WilliamPaterson 1793-1806SamuelChase 1796-1811BushrodWashington 1798-1829AlfredMoore 1799-1804WilliamJohnson 1804-34BrockholstLivingston 1806-23ThomasTodd 1807-26GabrielDuvall 1811-35JosephStory 1811-45SmithThompson 1823-43RobertTrimble 1826-28JohnMcLean 1829-61HenryBaldwin 1830-44JamesM. Wayne 1835-67PhilipPendleton Barbour 1836-41JohnCatron 1837-65JohnMcKinley 1837-52PeterVivian Daniel 1841-60SamuelNelson 1845-72LeviWoodbury 1845-51RobertCooper Grier 1846-70BenjaminR. Curtis 1851-57JohnA. Campbell 1853-61NathanClifford 1858-81DavidDavis 1862-77NoahH. Swayne 1862-81SamuelFreeman Miller 1862-90StephenJ. Field 1863-97WilliamStrong 1870-80JosephP. Bradley 1870-92WardHunt 1872-82JohnMarshall Harlan 1877-1911WilliamBurnham Woods 1880-87StanleyMatthews 1881-89HoraceGray 1881-1902SamuelM. Blatchford 1882-93LuciusQ. C. Lamar 1888-93DavidJosiah Brewer 1889-1910HenryB. Brown 1890-1906GeorgeShiras, Jr. 1892-1903HowellEdmunds Jackson 1893-95EdwardDouglass White 1894-1910RufusW. Peckham 1895-1909JosephMcKenna 1898-1925OliverWendell Holmes, Jr. 1902-32WilliamRufus Day 1903-22WilliamH. Moody 1906-10HoraceHarmon Lurton 1909-14CharlesEvans Hughes 1910-16WillisVan Devanter 1910-37JosephR. Lamar 1911-16MahlonPitney 1912-22JamesC. McReynolds 1914-41LouisD. Brandeis 1916-39JohnH. Clarke 1916-22GeorgeSutherland 1922-38PierceButler 1922-39EdwardT. Sanford 1923-30HarlanF. Stone 1925-41OwenJ. Roberts 1930-45BenjaminN. Cardozo 1932-38HugoL. Black 1937-71StanleyF. Reed 1938-57WilliamO. Douglas 1939-75FelixFrankfurter 1939-62FrankMurphy 1940-49JamesF. Byrnes 1941-42RobertH. Jackson 1941-54WileyB. Rutledge 1943-49HaroldH. Burton 1945-58TomC. Clark 1949-67ShermanMinton 1949-56JohnMarshall Harlan 1955-71WilliamJ. Brennan, Jr. 1956-90CharlesEvans Whittaker 1957-62PotterStewart 1958-81ArthurJ. Goldberg 1962-65ByronR. White 1962-93AbeFortas 1965-69ThurgoodMarshall 1967-91HarryA. Blackmun 1970-94LewisF. Powell, Jr. 1972-87WilliamH. Rehnquist 1972-86JohnPaul Stevens 1975-2010SandraDay O'Connor 1981-2006AntoninScalia 1986-2016AnthonyM. Kennedy 1988-DavidH. Souter 1990-2009ClarenceThomas 1991-RuthBader Ginsburg 1993-StephenG. Breyer 1994-SamuelA. Alito, Jr. 2006-SoniaSotomayor 2009- Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
1795 Oct 25:JohnBlair, resigned. 1798 Aug 28:JamesWilson, died in office. 1804 Jan 26:AlfredMoore, resigned. 1806 Sep 9:WilliamPaterson, died in office. 1811 Jun 19:SamuelChase, died in office. 1829 Nov 26:BushrodWashington, died in office. 1841 Feb 25:PhilipPendleton Barbour, died in office. 1843 Dec 18:SmithThompson, died in office. 1844 Apr 21:HenryBaldwin, died in office. 1845 Sep 10:JosephStory, died in office. 1851 Sep 4:LeviWoodbury, died in office. 1852 Jul 19:JohnMcKinley, died in office. 1861 Apr 4:JohnMcLean, died in office. 1865 May 30:JohnCatron, died in office. 1867 Jul 5:JamesM. Wayne, died in office. 1870 Jan 31:RobertCooper Grier, retired. 1880 Dec 14:WilliamStrong, retired. 1881 Jan 24:NoahH. Swayne, retired. 1881 Jul 25:NathanClifford, died in office. 1887 May 14:WilliamBurnham Woods, died in office. 1889 Mar 22:StanleyMatthews, died in office. 1890 Oct 13:SamuelFreeman Miller, died in office. 1892 Jan 22:JosephP. Bradley, died in office. 1893 Jan 23:LuciusQ. C. Lamar, died in office. 1893 Jul 7:SamuelM. Blatchford, died in office. 1895 Aug 8:HowellEdmunds Jackson, died in office. 1902 Sep 15:HoraceGray, died in office. 1903 Feb 23:GeorgeShiras, Jr., retired. 1906 May 28:HenryB. Brown, resigned. 1909 Oct 24:RufusW. Peckham, died in office. 1910 Mar 28:DavidJosiah Brewer, died in office. 1910 Nov 19:WilliamH. Moody, resigned. 1914 Jul 12:HoraceHarmon Lurton, died in office. 1916 Jun 10:CharlesEvans Hughes, resigned. 1925 Jan 5:JosephMcKenna, retired. 1930 Mar 8:EdwardT. Sanford, died in office. 1932 Jan 12:OliverWendell Holmes, Jr., retired. 1937 Jun 2:WillisVan Devanter, took senior status. 1938 Jan 17:GeorgeSutherland, took senior status. 1939 Feb 13:LouisD. Brandeis, took senior status. 1939 Nov 16:PierceButler, died in office. 1941 Jan 31:JamesC. McReynolds, took senior status. 1942 Oct 3:JamesF. Byrnes, resigned. 1949 Jul 19:FrankMurphy, died in office. 1949 Sep 10:WileyB. Rutledge, died in office. 1954 Oct 9:RobertH. Jackson, died in office. 1956 Oct 15:ShermanMinton, took senior status. 1958 Oct 13:HaroldH. Burton, took senior status. 1967 Jun 12:TomC. Clark, took senior status. 1971 Sep 17:HugoL. Black, took senior status. 1981 Jul 3:PotterStewart, took senior status. 1990 Jul 20:WilliamJ. Brennan, Jr., took senior status. 1991 Oct 1:ThurgoodMarshall, took senior status. 1994 Aug 3:HarryA. Blackmun, took senior status. 2009 Jun 30:DavidH. Souter, took senior status. 2010 Jun 30:JohnPaul Stevens, took senior status. 2016 Feb 13:AntoninScalia, died in office. | |