The Supreme Court of the United States is regarded as the highest judiciary in the United States. It consists of a total of nine justices, including the chief justice and eight associate justices.
The justices are nominated by the President of the United States and need the approval of the US Senate for their final appointment.
Presented below is a complete list of the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States dating back to 1789 until the present time.
List of Supreme Court Justices of the United States
Here is a list of the chief justices and associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of United States
| Name | State Appointed From | Appointed by | Service Started | Service Ended |
| John Jay | New York | George Washington | October 19, 1789 | June 29, 1795 |
| John Rutledge | South Carolina | George Washington | August 12, 1795 | December 15, 1795 |
| Oliver Ellsworth | Connecticut | George Washington | March 8, 1796 | December 15, 1800 |
| John Marshall | Virginia | Adams, John | February 4, 1801 | July 6, 1835 |
| Roger Brooke Taney | Maryland | Andrew Jackson | March 28, 1836 | October 12, 1864 |
| Salmon Portland Chase | Ohio | Abraham Lincoln | December 15, 1864 | May 7, 1873 |
| Morrison Remick Waite | Ohio | Ulysses S. Grant | March 4, 1874 | March 23, 1888 |
| Melville Weston Fuller | Illinois | Grover Cleveland | October 8, 1888 | July 4, 1910 |
| Edward Douglass White | Louisiana | William Howard Taft | December 19, 1910 | May 19, 1921 |
| William Howard Taft | Connecticut | Warren G. Harding | July 11, 1921 | February 3, 1930 |
| Charles Evans Hughes | New York | Herbert Hoover | February 24, 1930 | June 30, 1941 |
| Harlan Fiske Stone | New York | Roosevelt, F. | July 3, 1941 | April 22, 1946 |
| Fred Moore Vinson | Kentucky | Harry S. Truman | June 24, 1946 | September 8, 1953 |
| Warren, Earl | California | Dwight D. Eisenhower | October 5, 1953 | June 23, 1969 |
| Warren Earl Burger | Virginia | Richard Nixon | June 23, 1969 | September 26, 1986 |
| William H. Rehnquist | Virginia | Ronald Reagan | September 26, 1986 | September 3, 2005 |
| John G.Roberts, Jr. | Maryland | George. W. Bush | September 29, 2005 |
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Source: Supreme Court of United States
Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of United States
| Name | State Appointed From | Appointed by | Service Start Date | Service End Date |
| Rutledge, John | South Carolina | Washington | February 15, 1790 | March 5, 1791 |
| Cushing, William | Massachusetts | Washington | February 2, 1790 | September 13, 1810 |
| Wilson, James | Pennsylvania | Washington | October 5, 1789 | August 21, 1798 |
| Blair, John | Virginia | Washington | February 2, 1790 | October 25, 1795 |
| Iredell, James | North Carolina | Washington | May 12, 1790 | October 20, 1799 |
| Johnson, Thomas | Maryland | Washington | September 19, 1791 | January 16, 1793 |
| Paterson, William | New Jersey | Washington | March 11, 1793 | September 9, 1806 |
| Chase, Samuel | Maryland | Washington | February 4, 1796 | June 19, 1811 |
| Washington, Bushrod | Virginia | Adams, John | November 9, 1798 | November 26, 1829 |
| Moore, Alfred | North Carolina | Adams, John | April 21, 1800 | January 26, 1804 |
| Johnson, William | South Carolina | Jefferson | May 7, 1804 | August 4, 1834 |
| Livingston, Brockholst | New York | Jefferson | January 20, 1807 | March 18, 1823 |
| Todd, Thomas | Kentucky | Jefferson | May 4, 1807 | February 7, 1826 |
| Duvall, Gabriel | Maryland | Madison | November 23, 1811 | January 14, 1835 |
| Story, Joseph | Massachusetts | Madison | February 3, 1812 | September 10, 1845 |
| Thompson, Smith | New York | Monroe | September 1, 1823 | December 18, 1843 |
| Trimble, Robert | Kentucky | Adams, J. Q. | June 16, 1826 | August 25, 1828 |
| McLean, John | Ohio | Jackson | March 12, 1829 | April 4, 1861 |
| Baldwin, Henry | Pennsylvania | Jackson | January 18, 1830 | April 21, 1844 |
| Wayne, James Moore | Georgia | Jackson | January 14, 1835 | July 5, 1867 |
| Barbour, Philip Pendleton | Virginia | Jackson | May 12, 1836 | February 25, 1841 |
| Catron, John | Tennessee | Jackson | May 1, 1837 | May 30, 1865 |
| McKinley, John | Alabama | Van Buren | January 9, 1838 | July 19, 1852 |
| Daniel, Peter Vivian | Virginia | Van Buren | January 10, 1842 | May 31, 1860 |
| Nelson, Samuel | New York | Tyler | February 27, 1845 | November 28, 1872 |
| Woodbury, Levi | New Hampshire | Polk | September 23, 1845 | September 4, 1851 |
| Grier, Robert Cooper | Pennsylvania | Polk | August 10, 1846 | January 31, 1870 |
| Curtis, Benjamin Robbins | Massachusetts | Fillmore | October 10, 1851 | September 30, 1857 |
| Campbell, John Archibald | Alabama | Pierce | April 11, 1853 | April 30, 1861 |
| Clifford, Nathan | Maine | Buchanan | January 21, 1858 | July 25, 1881 |
| Swayne, Noah Haynes | Ohio | Lincoln | January 27, 1862 | January 24, 1881 |
| Miller, Samuel Freeman | Iowa | Lincoln | July 21, 1862 | October 13, 1890 |
| Davis, David | Illinois | Lincoln | December 10, 1862 | March 4, 1877 |
| Field, Stephen Johnson | California | Lincoln | May 20, 1863 | December 1, 1897 |
| Strong, William | Pennsylvania | Grant | March 14, 1870 | December 14, 1880 |
| Bradley, Joseph P. | New Jersey | Grant | March 23, 1870 | January 22, 1892 |
| Hunt, Ward | New York | Grant | January 9, 1873 | January 27, 1882 |
| Harlan, John Marshall | Kentucky | Hayes | December 10 1877 | October 14, 1911 |
| Woods, William Burnham | Georgia | Hayes | January 5, 1881 | May 14, 1887 |
| Matthews, Stanley | Ohio | Garfield | May 17, 1881 | March 22, 1889 |
| Gray, Horace | Massachusetts | Arthur | January 9, 1882 | September 15, 1902 |
| Blatchford, Samuel | New York | Arthur | April 3, 1882 | July 7, 1893 |
| Lamar, Lucius Quintus C. | Mississippi | Cleveland | January 18, 1888 | January 23, 1893 |
| Brewer, David Josiah | Kansas | Harrison | January 6, 1890 | March 28, 1910 |
| Brown, Henry Billings | Michigan | Harrison | January 5, 1891 | May 28, 1906 |
| Shiras, George, Jr. | Pennsylvania | Harrison | October 10, 1892 | February 23, 1903 |
| Jackson, Howell Edmunds | Tennessee | Harrison | March 4, 1893 | August 8, 1895 |
| White, Edward Douglass | Louisiana | Cleveland | March 12, 1894 | December 18, 1910* |
| Peckham, Rufus Wheeler | New York | Cleveland | January 6, 1896 | October 24, 1909 |
| McKenna, Joseph | California | McKinley | January 26, 1898 | January 5, 1925 |
| Holmes, Oliver Wendell | Massachusetts | Roosevelt, T. | December 8, 1902 | January 12, 1932 |
| Day, William Rufus | Ohio | Roosevelt, T. | March 2, 1903 | November 13, 1922 |
| Moody, William Henry | Massachusetts | Roosevelt, T. | December 17, 1906 | November 20, 1910 |
| Lurton, Horace Harmon | Tennessee | Taft | January 3, 1910 | July 12, 1914 |
| Hughes, Charles Evans | New York | Taft | October 10, 1910 | June 10, 1916 |
| Van Devanter, Willis | Wyoming | Taft | January 3, 1911 | June 2, 1937 |
| Lamar, Joseph Rucker | Georgia | Taft | January 3, 1911 | January 2, 1916 |
| Pitney, Mahlon | New Jersey | Taft | March 18, 1912 | December 31, 1922 |
| McReynolds, James Clark | Tennessee | Wilson | October 12, 1914 | January 31, 1941 |
| Brandeis, Louis Dembitz | Massachusetts | Wilson | June 5,1916 | February 13, 1939 |
| Clarke, John Hessin | Ohio | Wilson | October 9, 1916 | September 18, 1922 |
| Sutherland, George | Utah | Harding | October 2, 1922 | January 17, 1938 |
| Butler, Pierce | Minnesota | Harding | January 2, 1923 | November 16, 1939 |
| Sanford, Edward Terry | Tennessee | Harding | February 19, 1923 | March 8, 1930 |
| Stone, Harlan Fiske | New York | Coolidge | March 2, 1925 | July 2, 1941* |
| Roberts, Owen Josephus | Pennsylvania | Hoover | June 2, 1930 | July 31, 1945 |
| Cardozo, Benjamin Nathan | New York | Hoover | March 14, 1932 | July 9, 1938 |
| Black, Hugo Lafayette | Alabama | Roosevelt, F. | August 19, 1937 | September 17, 1971 |
| Reed, Stanley Forman | Kentucky | Roosevelt, F. | January 31, 1938 | February 25, 1957 |
| Frankfurter, Felix | Massachusetts | Roosevelt, F | January 30, 1939 | August 28, 1962 |
| Douglas, William Orville | Connecticut | Roosevelt, F. | April 17, 1939 | November 12, 1975 |
| Murphy, Frank | Michigan | Roosevelt, F. | February 5, 1940 | July 19, 1949 |
| Byrnes, James Francis | South Carolina | Roosevelt, F. | July 8, 1941 | October 3, 1942 |
| Jackson, Robert Houghwout | New York | Roosevelt, F. | July 11, 1941 | October 9, 1954 |
| Rutledge, Wiley Blount | Iowa | Roosevelt, F. | February 15, 1943 | September 10, 1949 |
| Burton, Harold Hitz | Ohio | Truman | October 1, 1945 | October 13, 1958 |
| Clark, Tom Campbell | Texas | Truman | August 24, 1949 | June 12, 1967 |
| Minton, Sherman | Indiana | Truman | October 12, 1949 | October 15, 1956 |
| Harlan, John Marshall | New York | Eisenhower | March 28, 1955 | September 23, 1971 |
| Brennan, William J., Jr. | New Jersey | Eisenhower | October 16, 1956 | July 20, 1990 |
| Whittaker, Charles Evans | Missouri | Eisenhower | March 25, 1957 | March 31, 1962 |
| Stewart, Potter | Ohio | Eisenhower | October 14, 1958 | July 3, 1981 |
| White, Byron Raymond | Colorado | Kennedy | April 16, 1962 | June 28, 1993 |
| Goldberg, Arthur Joseph | Illinois | Kennedy | October 1, 1962 | July 25, 1965 |
| Fortas, Abe | Tennessee | Johnson, L. | October 4, 1965 | May 14, 1969 |
| Marshall, Thurgood | New York | Johnson, L. | October 2, 1967 | October 1, 1991 |
| Blackmun, Harry A. | Minnesota | Nixon | June 9, 1970 | August 3, 1994 |
| Powell, Lewis F., Jr. | Virginia | Nixon | January 7, 1972 | June 26, 1987 |
| Rehnquist, William H. | Arizona | Nixon | January 7, 1972 | September 26, 1986* |
| Stevens, John Paul | Illinois | Ford | December 19, 1975 | June 29, 2010 |
| O'Connor, Sandra Day | Arizona | Reagan | September 25, 1981 | January 31, 2006 |
| Scalia, Antonin | Virginia | Reagan | September 26, 1986 | February 13, 2016 |
| Kennedy, Anthony M. | California | Reagan | February 18, 1988 | July 31, 2018 |
| Souter, David H. | New Hampshire | Bush, G. H. W. | October 9, 1990 | June 29, 2009 |
| Thomas, Clarence | Georgia | Bush, G. H. W. | October 23, 1991 |
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| Ginsburg, Ruth Bader | New York | Clinton | August 10, 1993 | September 18, 2020 |
| Breyer, Stephen G. | Massachusetts | Clinton | August 3, 1994 | June 30, 2022 |
| Alito, Samuel A., Jr. | New Jersey | Bush, G. W. | January 31, 2006 |
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| Sotomayor, Sonia | New York | Obama | August 8, 2009 |
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| Kagan, Elena | Massachusetts | Obama | August 7, 2010 |
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| Gorsuch, Neil M. | Colorado | Trump | April 10, 2017 |
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| Kavanaugh, Brett M. | Maryland | Trump | October 6, 2018 |
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| Barrett, Amy Coney | Indiana | Trump | October 27, 2020 |
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| Jackson, Ketanji Brown | Washington, D.C. | Biden | June 30, 2022 |
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Source: Supreme Court of United States
That was all about the list of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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