SCHS: Programs & Events — Rosette Detail

Supreme Court Historical Society Annual Meeting

Registration is now closed

June 5, 2023

Schedule For the Day:

12:30 p.m. — Optional Tour of Supreme Court Building (free event, reservation required)

2:00 p.m. — Annual Lecture Featuring Retired Associate Justice Stephen Breyer and Judge Charles Breyer in the Courtroom (free event, reservation required)

3:30 p.m. — Optional Tour of Supreme Court Building (free event, reservation required)

6:00 p.m. — Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees and Awards Presentation In the Courtroom

7:00 p.m. — Reception in the East & West Conference Rooms (paid event, reservation required)

8:00 p.m. — Annual Dinner in the Great Hall (paid event, reservation required)

Reservations for all afternoon events + the reception and dinner will be limited to 2 tickets per current Society member.

Not a member of the Supreme Court Historical Society?

  • Members can attend the Society’s Annual Lecture (virtual in 2022) and will receive invitations to all Society events when in-person programming resumes.

  • Members receive a 20 percent discount at the Society’s gift shop, both online and in-person.

  • And for a limited time, join for one year and get a second year for free.

Try the Society and see for yourself the engaging and informative work we do.

Annual Lecture Speakers

2022 — Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton in conversation with Justice Leondra Kruger

2019 — Justice Clarence Thomas, in conversation with David Rubenstein

2018 — Ed Whelan, Christopher Scalia and Paul Clement

2017 — John Sexton

2016 — Justice Stephen Breyer

2015 — The Honorable Brenda Hale

2014 — Byron Garner and Justice Antonin Scalia

2013 — Justice Sonia Sotomayor

2012 — Judith Resnick and Dennis Curtis

2011 — Noah Feldman

2010 — Judge Judith Kaye

2009 — Justice Stephen Breyer

2008 — Justice Samuel Alito

2007 — Judge Michael McConnell

2006 — Justice Anthony Kennedy

2005 — Judge Harvie Wilkinson

2004 — Judge John G. Roberts

2003 — Justice Anthony Kennedy

2002 — Justice Sandra Day O’Connor

2001 — Chief Justice William Rehnquist

2000 — Justice Stephen G. Breyer

1999 — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

1998 — Solicitor General Seth Waxman

1997 — Justice Clarence Thomas

1996 — Justice Harry Blackmun

1995 — Gerald Gunther

1994 — Justice Antonin Scalia

1993 — Herbert Brownell

1992 — Liva Baker

1991 — Chief Justice Warren Burger

1990 — Justice Lewis Powell

1989 — Justice Anthony Kennedy

1988 — Justice Sandra Day O’Connor

1987 — Judge Kenneth Starr

1986 — Daniel Meador

1985 — Judge Antonin Scalia

1984 — William Leuchtenberg

1983 — Judge Robert Bork

1982 — Henry Abraham

1981 — George Haskins

1980 — Maxwell Bloomfield

1979 — Benno Schmidt

1978 — Richard Morris