The Supreme Court makes decisions on how laws should be applied according to the constitution.
The current Supreme Court is made up of 1 Chief Justice and 8 Associate Justices.
The current Chief Justice is John G. Roberts, Jr.
| Supreme Court Justics | In Office | |
|---|---|---|
John Jay | October 19, 1789 - June 29, 1795 | |
John Rutledge | June 30, 1795 - December 28, 1795 | |
William Cushing | September 26, 1789 - September 13, 1810 | |
James Wilson | September 26, 1789 - August 28, 1798 | |
John Blair Jr. | September 26, 1789 - October 25, 1795 | |
James Iredell | February 10, 1790 - October 20, 1799 | |
Thomas Johnson | August 5, 1792 - January 16, 1793 | |
William Paterson | March 4, 1793 - September 9, 1806 | |
Samuel Chase | January 27, 1796 - June 19, 1811 | |
Oliver Ellsworth | March 4, 1796 - September 30, 1800 | |
Bushrod Washington | December 20, 1798 - November 26, 1829 | |
Alfred Moore | December 10, 1799 - January 26, 1804 | |
John Marshall | January 31, 1801 - July 6, 1835 | |
William Johnson | March 26, 1804 - August 4, 1834 | |
Henry B. Livingston | January 19, 1807-March 17, 1823 | |
Thomas Todd | March 3, 1807 - February 7, 1826 | |
Gabriel Duvall | November 23, 1811 - January 12, 1835 | |
Joseph Story | November 18, 1811 - September 10, 1845 | |
Smith Thompson | September 1, 1823 - December 18, 1843 | |
Robert Trimble | May 9, 1826 - August 25, 1828 | |
John McLean | March 7, 1829 - April 4, 1861 | |
Henry Baldwin | January 6, 1830 - April 21, 1844 | |
James Moore Wayne | January 9, 1835 - July 5, 1867 | |
Roger B. Taney | March 15, 1836 - October 12, 1864 | |
Philip P. Barbour | March 15, 1836 - February 25, 1841 | |
John Catron | March 8, 1837 - May 30, 1865 | |
John McKinley | April 22, 1837 - July 19, 1852 | |
Peter Vivian Daniel | March 3, 1841 - May 31, 1860 | |
Samuel Nelson | February 14, 1845 - November 28, 1872 | |
Levi Woodbury | September 20, 1845 - September 4, 1851 | |
Robert C. Grier | August 4, 1846 - January 31, 1870 | |
Benjamin R. Curtis | September 22, 1851- September 30, 1857 | |
John A. Campbell | September 22, 1851 - September 30, 1857 | |
Nathan Clifford | October 17, 1846 - March 17, 1848 | |
Noah Haynes Swayne | January 24, 1862 - January 24, 1881 | |
Samuel F. Miller | July 16, 1862 - October 13, 1890 | |
David Davis | October 17, 1862 - March 4, 1877 | |
Stephen J. Field | March 10, 1863- December 1, 1897 | |
Salmon P. Chase | December 15, 1864 - May 7, 1873 | |
William Strong | February 18, 1870- December 14, 1880 | |
Joseph P. Bradley | March 21, 1870 - January 22, 1892 | |
Ward Hunt | December 11, 1872 - January 27, 1882 | |
Morrison R. Waite | March 4, 1874 - March 23, 1888 | |
John M. Harlan | November 29, 1877 - October 14, 1911 | |
William B. Woods | December 21, 1880 - May 14, 1887 | |
Stanley Matthews | May 12, 1881 - March 22, 1889 | |
Horace Gray | December 20, 1881 - September 15, 1902 | |
Samuel Blatchford | March 22, 1882 - July 7, 1893 | |
Lucius Q.C. Lamar | January 16, 1888 - January 23, 1893 | |
Melville W. Fuller | October 8, 1888 - July 4, 1910 | |
David J. Brewer | December 18, 1889- March 27, 1910 | |
Henry B. Brown | 29 December 1890 - 28 May 1906 | |
George Shiras | Jr. | July 26, 1892 - February 23, 1903 |
Howell E. Jackson | February 18, 1893 - August 8, 1895 | |
Edward D. White | December 12, 1910 - May 19, 1921 | |
Rufus W. Peckham | December 9, 1895 - October 24, 1909 | |
Joseph McKenna | January 21, 1898 - January 5, 1925 | |
Oliver W. Holmes | December 4, 1902 - January 12, 1932 | |
William Rufus Day | February 23, 1903 - November 13, 1922 | |
William H. Moody | December 12, 1906 - November 20, 1910 | |
Horace H. Lurton | December 20, 1909 - July 12, 1914 | |
Charles E. Hughes | February 13, 1930 - June 30, 1941 | |
Willis Van Devanter | December 16, 1910 - June 2, 1937 | |
Joseph R. Lamar | December 17, 1910 - January 2, 1916 | |
Mahlon Pitney | March 13, 1912 - December 31, 1922 | |
James C. McReynolds | August 29, 1914 - January 31, 1941 | |
Louis D. Brandeis | June 1, 1916 - February 13, 1939 | |
John H. Clarke | July 24, 1916 - September 18, 1922 | |
William H. Taft | July 11, 1921 - February 3, 1930 | |
George Sutherland | September 5, 1922 - January 17, 1938 | |
Pierce Butler | December 21, 1922 - November 16, 1939 | |
Edward T. Sanford | January 29, 1923 - March 8, 1930 | |
Harlan Fiske Stone | July 3, 1941 - April 22, 1946 | |
Owen J. Roberts | May 20, 1930 - July 31, 1945 | |
Benjamin N. Cardozo | March 2, 1932 - July 9, 1938 | |
Hugo L. Black | August 18, 1937 - September 17, 1971 | |
Stanley F. Reed | January 27, 1938 - February 25, 1957 | |
Felix Frankfurter | January 20, 1939 - August 28, 1962 | |
William O. Douglas | April 15, 1939 - November 12, 1975 | |
Frank Murphy | January 18, 1940 - July 19, 1949 | |
James F. Byrnes | July 8, 1941 - October 3, 1942 | |
Robert H. Jackson | July 11, 1941 - October 9, 1954 | |
Wiley B. Rutledge | February 11, 1943 - September 10, 1949 | |
Harold H. Burton | September 22, 1945 - October 13, 1958 | |
Fred M. Vinson | June 21, 1946 - September 8, 1953 | |
Tom C. Clark | August 19, 1949 - June 12, 1967 | |
Sherman Minton | October 12, 1949 - October 15, 1956 | |
Earl Warren | October 2, 1953 - June 23, 1969 | |
John M. Harlan | March 17, 1955 - September 23, 1971 | |
William J. Brennan | Jr. | October 15, 1956 - July 20, 1990 |
Charles E. Whittaker | March 22, 1957 - March 31, 1962 | |
Potter Stewart | October 14, 1958 - July 3, 1981 | |
Byron R. White | April 16, 1962 - June 28, 1993 | |
Arthur J. Goldberg | September 28, 1962 - July 2, 1965 | |
Abe Fortas | October 4, 1965 - May 14, 1969 | |
Thurgood Marshall | October 2, 1967 - October 1, 1991 | |
Warren E. Burger | June 23, 1969 - September 26, 1986 | |
Harry A. Blackmun | June 9, 1970 - August 3, 1994 | |
Lewis F. Powell | Jr. | January 7, 1972 - June 26, 1987 |
William H. Rehnquist | September 26, 1986 - September 3, 2005 | |
John Paul Stevens | December 19, 1975 - June 29, 2010 | |
Sandra Day O'Connor | September 21, 1981 - January 31, 2006 | |
Antonin Scalia | September 26, 1986 - February 13, 2016 | |
Anthony M. Kennedy | February 18, 1988 - July 31, 2018 | |
David Souter | October 9, 1990 - June 29, 2009 | |
Clarence Thomas | October 23, 1991 | |
Ruth Bader Ginsburg | August 10, 1993 - September 18, 2020 | |
Stephen G. Breyer | August 3, 1994 | |
John G. Roberts | Jr. | September 29, 2005 |
Samuel A. Alito | Jr. | Assumed office January 31, 2006 |
Sonia Sotomayor | August 8, 2009 | |
Elena Kagan | August 7, 2010 | |
Neil Gorsuch | April 10, 2017 | |
Brett Kavanaugh | October 6, 2018 | |
Amy Coney Barrett | October 27, 2020 |
