All U.S. Supreme Court Justices Ever

Name all the people to ever serve on the Supreme Court of the United States.

Justices whose names appear in italics served as Chief Justice

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Years	Appointed by	Justice
1789–1795	Washington	John Jay
1789–1791 1795	Washington	John Rutledge
1789–1810	Washington	William Cushing
1789–1798	Washington	James Wilson
1789–1795	Washington	John Blair, Jr.
1790–1799	Washington	James Iredell
1792–1793	Washington	Thomas Johnson
1793–1806	Washington	William Paterson
1796–1811	Washington	Samuel Chase
1796–1800	Washington	Oliver Ellsworth
1798–1829	John Adams	Bushrod Washington
1800–1804	John Adams	Alfred Moore
1801–1835	John Adams	John Marshall
1804–1834	Jefferson	William Johnson
1807–1823	Jefferson	Henry Livingston
1807–1826	Jefferson	Thomas Todd
1811–1835	Madison	Gabriel Duvall
1812–1845	Madison	Joseph Story
1823–1843	Monroe	Smith Thompson
1826–1828	John Q. Adams	Robert Trimble
1829–1861	Jackson	John McLean
1830–1844	Jackson	Henry Baldwin
1835–1867	Jackson	James Wayne
1836–1864	Jackson	Roger B. Taney
1836–1841	Jackson	Philip Barbour
1837–1865	Jackson	John Catron
1837–1852	Van Buren	John McKinley
1842–1860	Van Buren	Peter Daniel
1845–1872	Tyler	Samuel Nelson
1845–1851	Polk	Levi Woodbury
1846–1870	Polk	Robert Grier
1851–1857	Fillmore	Benjamin Curtis
1853–1861	Pierce	John Campbell
1858–1881	Buchanan	Nathan Clifford
1862–1881	Lincoln	Noah Swayne
1862–1890	Lincoln	Samuel Miller
1862–1877	Lincoln	David Davis
1863–1897	Lincoln	Stephen Field
1864–1873	Lincoln	Salmon P. Chase
1870–1880	Grant	William Strong
1870–1892	Grant	Joseph P. Bradley
1873–1882	Grant	Ward Hunt
1874–1888	Grant	Morrison Waite
1877–1911	Hayes	John Harlan
1881–1887	Hayes	William Burnham Woods
1881–1889	Garfield	Stanley Matthews
1882–1902	Arthur	Horace Gray
1882–1893	Arthur	Samuel Blatchford
1888–1893	Cleveland	Lucius Lamar
1888–1910	Cleveland	Melville Fuller
1890–1910	B. Harrison	David Brewer
1891–1906	B. Harrison	Henry Brown
1892–1903	B. Harrison	George Shiras, Jr.
1893–1895	B. Harrison	Howell Jackson
1894–1921	Cleveland	Edward White
1896–1909	Cleveland	Rufus Peckham
1898–1925	McKinley	Joseph McKenna
1902–1932	T. Roosevelt	Oliver Holmes

Years	Appointed by	Justice
1903–1922	T. Roosevelt	William R. Day
1906–1910	T. Roosevelt	William Moody
1910–1914	Taft	Horace Lurton
1910–1916 1930–1941	Taft	Charles Hughes
1911–1937	Taft	Willis Van Devanter
1911–1916	Taft	Joseph Lamar
1912–1922	Taft	Mahlon Pitney
1914–1941	Wilson	James McReynolds
1916–1939	Wilson	Louis Brandeis
1916–1922	Wilson	John Clarke
1921–1930	Harding	William Taft
1922–1938	Harding	George Sutherland
1923–1939	Harding	Pierce Butler
1923–1930	Harding	Edward Sanford
1925–1946	Coolidge	Harlan F. Stone
1930–1945	Hoover	Owen Roberts
1932–1938	Hoover	Benjamin N. Cardozo
1937–1971	F. D. Roosevelt	Hugo Black
1938–1957	F. D. Roosevelt	Stanley Reed
1939–1962	F. D. Roosevelt	Felix Frankfurter
1939–1975	F. D. Roosevelt	William O. Douglas
1940–1949	F. D. Roosevelt	Frank Murphy
1941–1942	F. D. Roosevelt	James F. Byrnes
1941–1954	F. D. Roosevelt	Robert H. Jackson
1943–1949	F. D. Roosevelt	Wiley Rutledge
1945–1958	Truman	Harold Burton
1946–1953	Truman	Fred M. Vinson
1949–1967	Truman	Tom C. Clark
1949–1956	Truman	Sherman Minton
1953–1969	Eisenhower	Earl Warren
1955–1971	Eisenhower	John Harlan II
1956–1990	Eisenhower	William J. Brennan
1957–1962	Eisenhower	Charles Whittaker
1958–1981	Eisenhower	Potter Stewart
1962–1993	Kennedy	Byron White
1962–1965	Kennedy	Arthur Goldberg
1965–1969	L. B. Johnson	Abe Fortas
1967–1991	L. B. Johnson	Thurgood Marshall
1969–1986	Nixon	Warren Burger
1970–1994	Nixon	Harry Blackmun
1972–1987	Nixon	Lewis F. Powell
1972–2005	Nixon	William Rehnquist
1975–2010	Ford	John Paul Stevens
1981–2006	Reagan	Sandra Day O'Connor
1986–2016	Reagan	Antonin Scalia
1988–2018	Reagan	Anthony Kennedy
1990–2009	G. H. W. Bush	David Souter
1993–2020	Clinton	Ruth Bader Ginsburg
1994–2022	Clinton	Stephen Breyer
1991–	G. H. W. Bush	Clarence Thomas
2005–	G. W. Bush	John Roberts
2006–	G. W. Bush	Samuel Alito
2009–	Obama	Sonia Sotomayor
2010–	Obama	Elena Kagan
2017–	Trump	Neil Gorsuch
2018–	Trump	Brett Kavanaugh
2020–	Trump	Amy Coney Barrett
2022–	Biden	Ketanji Brown Jackson

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15 Comments

Level 82

Sep 9, 2016

Some of the answers require first and last name, you should change this to just last name, or just make it consistent. A bit frustrating when Samuel Chase didn't show up, but when I typed in the first and last it worked. Same thing with some of the earlier justices.

Level ∞

Sep 9, 2016

Should be fixed now

Level 90

Sep 10, 2016

Thomas is the most well known. A good scandal can do wonders for name recognition.

Level 59

Aug 16, 2020

David Souter grew up in my tiny town!

Level 96

Jul 26, 2023

You just got Ginsburned!

Level 80

Jul 27, 2023

I admit that I don't know the name of a single answer to this quiz.

Level 76

Sep 3, 2023

If you are American - *sad face*

If not, it's fine.

Level 88

Jul 27, 2023

I got a 72 on this quiz as an American politics nerd, and yet it's worth 4/5 points after 5,338 takes on it. To any cheaters who are reading this, please go do something better with your life.

(Yes, of course, this frustration applies to a gazillion other quizzes and quiztakers who are robbed out of hard-earned points but still. I know this wave of cheaters should eventually subside a bit.)

Level 74

Aug 19, 2023

Who among us does not think frequently of Samuel Blatchford--the Justice appointed by Arthur who founded the firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, made a fortune by selling all his stock on the eve of the Civil War, and was an expert on Admiralty law? Why just the other day . . . .

Level 88

Aug 19, 2023

That was one I couldn't think of... I'm sure they thought of his appointment of Horace Gray, a supporter of court precedent, throughout his judicial career as well. Seems logical.

Level 76

Aug 19, 2023

Tough quiz, didn't get any points.

Level 91

Aug 19, 2023

I wondered how many I could get just by typing the last names of the Presidents... I only got 10.

Level 88

Nov 18, 2023

Three months later and I've finally learned them all. Just one note: the order of the answers for George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton's appointments are mixed up. The 1991 clue should be above the two ones for Clinton, and below the 1990 clue. Thanks!

Level 79

Jun 29, 2024

I think that's intentional, it puts all of the current justices next to each other.

Level 61

Oct 30, 2024

Taft