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
Associate Justices
- James Wilson, 1789-1798
- William Cushing, 1790-1810
- John Blair, Jr., 1790-1796
- John Rutledge, 1790-1791
- James Iredell, 1790-1799
- Thomas Johnson, 1792-1793
- William Paterson, 1793-1806
- Samuel Chase, 1796-1811
- Bushrod Washington, 1799-1829
- Alfred Moore, 1800-1804
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Ward Hunt, 1873-1882
- John Marshall Harlan, 1877-1911
- William B. Woods, 1881-1887
- Stanley Matthews, 1881-1889
- 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
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1902-1932
- William R. Day, 1903-1922
- William H. Moody, 1906-1910
- Horace H. Lurton, 1910-1914
- Charles Evans Hughes, 1910-1916
- Willis Van Devanter, 1911-1937
- Joseph Rucker Lamar, 1911-1916
- Mahlon Pitney, 1912-1922
- James Clark McReynolds, 1914-1941
- Louis D. Brandeis, 1916-1939
- John H. Clarke, 1916-1922
- 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 L. Black, 1937-1971
- Stanley F. Reed, 1938-1957
- Felix Frankfurter, 1939-1962
- William O. Douglas, 1939-1975
- Frank Murphy, 1940-1949
- 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
- Abe Fortas, 1965-1969
- Thurgood Marshall, 1967-1991
- Harry A. Blackmun, 1970-1994
- Lewis F. Powell, Jr., 1972-1987
- William H. Rehnquist, 1972-1986
- 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