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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 Douglass 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
Timeline of the Justices – Associate Justices
1789-1800
James Wilson, 1789-1798
William Cushing, 1790-1810
John Blair, Jr., 1790-1796
James Iredell, 1790-1799
Thomas Johnson, 1792-1793
William Paterson, 1793-1806
Samuel Chase, 1796-1811
Bushrod Washington, 1799-1829
Alfred Moore, 1800-1804
1804-1835
William Johnson, 1804-1834
H. Brockholst Livingston, 1807-1823
Thomas Todd, 1807-1826
Gabriel Duvall, 1811-1835
Joseph Story, 1812-1845
Smith Thompson, 1823-1843
Robert Trimble, 1826-1828
John McLean, 1829-1861
Henry Baldwin, 1830-1844
James M. Wayne, 1835-1867
1836-1858
Philip P. Barbour, 1836-1841
John Catron, 1837-1865
John McKinley, 1838-1852
Peter V. Daniel, 1842-1860
Samuel Nelson, 1845-1872
Levi Woodbury, 1845-1851
Robert C. Grier, 1846-1870
Benjamin R. Curtis, 1851-1857
John A. Campbell, 1853-1861
Nathan Clifford, 1858-1881
1862-1881
Noah H. Swayne, 1862-1881
Samuel F. Miller, 1862-1890
David Davis, 1862-1877
Stephen J. Field, 1863-1897
William Strong, 1870-1880
Joseph P. Bradley, 1870-1892
Morrison R. Waite, 1874-1888
Ward Hunt, 1873-1882
John Marshall Harlan, 1877-1911
William B. Woods, 1881-1887
Stanley Matthews, 1881-1889
1882-1898
Horace Gray, 1882-1902
Samuel Blatchford, 1882-1893
Lucius Q. C. Lamar, 1888-1893
David J. Brewer, 1890-1910
Henry B. Brown, 1891-1906
George Shiras, Jr., 1892-1903
Howell E. Jackson, 1893-1895
Edward Douglass White, 1894-1910
Rufus W. Peckham, 1896-1909
Joseph McKenna, 1898-1925
1902-1916
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1902-1932
William R. Day, 1903-1922
Horace H. Lurton, 1910-1914
Charles Evans Hughes, 1910-1916
Willis Van Devanter, 1911-1937
William H. Moody, 1906-1910
Joseph Rucker Lamar, 1911-1916
Mahlon Pitney, 1912-1922
James Clark McReynolds, 1914-1941
Louis D. Brandeis, 1916-1939
John H. Clarke, 1916-1922
1922-1940
George Sutherland, 1922-1938
Pierce Butler, 1923-1939
Edward T. Sanford, 1923-1930
Harlan Fiske Stone, 1925-1941
Owen J. Roberts, 1930-1945
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, 1932-1938
Hugo Black, 1937-1971
Stanley F. Reed, 1938-1957
Felix Frankfurter, 1939-1962
William O. Douglas, 1939-1975
Frank W. Murphy, 1940-1949
1941-1962
James F. Byrnes, 1941-1942
Robert H. Jackson, 1941-1954
Wiley B. Rutledge, 1943-1949
Harold H. Burton, 1945-1958
Tom C. Clark, 1949-1967
Sherman Minton, 1949-1956
John Marshall Harlan II, 1955-1971
William J. Brennan, Jr., 1956-1990
Charles E. Whittaker, 1957-1962
Potter Stewart, 1958-1981
Byron R. White, 1962-1993
Arthur J. Goldberg, 1962-1965
1965-Current
Abe Fortas, 1965-1969
Thurgood Marshall, 1967-1991
Harry A. Blackmun, 1970-1994
Lewis F. Powell, Jr., 1972-1987
John Paul Stevens, 1975-2010
Sandra Day O’Connor, 1981-2006
Antonin Scalia, 1986 – 2016
Anthony M. Kennedy, 1988 – 2018
David H. Souter, 1990-2009
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 1993-2020
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Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.
Justice Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett
Justice Stephen G. Breyer
Justice Neil M. Gorsuch
Justice Elena Kagan
Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh
Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Justice Clarence Thomas
History of the Courts
The Jay Court, 1789-1795
The Rutledge Court, 1795
The Ellsworth Court, 1796-1800
The Marshall Court, 1801-1835
The Taney Court, 1836-1864
The Chase Court, 1864-1873
The Waite Court, 1874-1888
The Fuller Court, 1888-1910
The Taft Court, 1921-1930
The White Court, 1910-1921
The Hughes Court, 1930-1941
The Stone Court, 1941-1946
The Vinson Court, 1946-1953
The Warren Court, 1953-1969
The Burger Court, 1969-1986
The Rehnquist Court, 1986-2005
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Vernonia School District v. Acton
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Text Books: Supreme Court Decisions & Women’s Rights – Milestones to Equality
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Breaking New Ground – Reed v. Reed, 404 U.S. 71 (1971)
A Double Standard for Benefits – Frontiero v. Richardson, 411 U.S. 677 (1973)
Justice for Beer Drinkers – Craig v. Boren, 429 U.S. 190 (1976)
The Most Recent Standard – United States v. Virginia, 518 U.S. 515 (1996)
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