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Supreme Court of the United States: Justices

Number of justices: 116
Jay, John (1789-1795)
Rutledge, John (1789-1791), (1795)
Cushing, William (1789-1810)
Wilson, James (1789-1798)
Blair, John, Jr. (1789-1795)
Iredell, James (1790-1799)
Johnson, Thomas (1791-1793)
Paterson, William (1793-1806)
Chase, Samuel (1796-1811)
Ellsworth, Oliver (1796-1800)
Washington, Bushrod (1798-1829)
Moore, Alfred (1799-1804)
Marshall, John (1801-1835)
Johnson, William, Jr. (1804-1834)
Todd, Thomas (1807-1826)
Duvall, Gabriel (1811-1835)
Story, Joseph (1811-1845)
Thompson, Smith (1823-1843)
Trimble, Robert (1826-1828)
McLean, John (1829-1861)
Baldwin, Henry (1830-1844)
Wayne, James Moore (1835-1867)
Taney, Roger Brooke (1836-1864)
Catron, John (1837-1865)
McKinley, John (1837-1852)
Daniel, Peter Vivian (1841-1860)
Nelson, Samuel (1845-1872)
Woodbury, Levi (1845-1851)
Grier, Robert Cooper (1846-1870)
Clifford, Nathan (1858-1881)
Swayne, Noah Haynes (1862-1881)
Davis, David (1862-1877)
Strong, William (1870-1880)
Bradley, Joseph P. (1870-1892)
Hunt, Ward (1872-1882)
Harlan, John Marshall (1877-1911)
Matthews, Stanley (1881-1889)
Gray, Horace (1881-1902)
Blatchford, Samuel M. (1882-1893)
Brewer, David Josiah (1889-1910)
Brown, Henry Billings (1890-1906)
Shiras, George, Jr. (1892-1903)
McKenna, Joseph (1898-1925)
Day, William Rufus (1903-1922)
Moody, William Henry (1906-1910)
Lurton, Horace Harmon (1909-1914)
Hughes, Charles Evans (1910-1916), (1930-1941)
Van Devanter, Willis (1910-1937)
Lamar, Joseph Rucker (1910-1916)
Pitney, Mahlon (1912-1922)
Clarke, John Hessin (1916-1922)
Taft, William Howard (1921-1930)
Sutherland, George (1922-1938)
Butler, Pierce (1922-1939)
Sanford, Edward Terry (1923-1930)
Stone, Harlan Fiske (1925-1946)
Black, Hugo Lafayette (1937-1971)
Reed, Stanley Forman (1938-1957)
Frankfurter, Felix (1939-1962)
Murphy, Frank (1940-1949)
Byrnes, James Francis (1941-1942)
Burton, Harold Hitz (1945-1958)
Clark, Tom C. (1949-1967)
Minton, Sherman (1949-1956)
Warren, Earl (1953-1969)
Harlan, John Marshall (1955-1971)
Stewart, Potter (1958-1981)
White, Byron Raymond (1962-1993)
Fortas, Abe (1965-1969)
Marshall, Thurgood (1967-1991)
Burger, Warren Earl (1969-1986)
Stevens, John Paul (1975-2010)
O'Connor, Sandra Day (1981-2006)
Scalia, Antonin (1986-2016)
Souter, David Hackett (1990-2009)
Thomas, Clarence (1991-present)
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader (1993-2020)
Roberts, John Glover, Jr. (2005-present)
Alito, Samuel A., Jr. (2006-present)
Sotomayor, Sonia (2009-present)
Kagan, Elena (2010-present)
Gorsuch, Neil M. (2017-present)
Kavanaugh, Brett M. (2018-present)
Barrett, Amy Coney (2020-present)
Jackson, Ketanji Brown (2022-present)