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John Roberts
Since 2005
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William Rehnquist
1986 - 2005
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Warren Burger
1969 - 1986
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Earl Warren
1953 - 1969
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Fred Vinson
1946 - 1953
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Harlan Stone
1941 - 1946
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Charles Evans Hughes
1930 - 1941
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William Howard Taft
1921 - 1930
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Edward Douglass White
1910 - 1921
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Melville Fuller
1888 - 1910
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Morrison Waite
1874 - 1888
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Salmon Chase
1864 - 1873
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Roger B. Taney
1836 - 1864
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John Marshall
1801 - 1835
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Oliver Ellsworth
1796 - 1800
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John Rutledge
1795
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John Jay
1789 - 1795
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Seat numbers were designated based off the date that the commission of the first Justice to hold the seat was issued.
While Justice John Catron was sworn in on May 1, 1837, his seat was designated Seat 9 because he was the only person to hold that seat.
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Established by the Judiciary Act of 1789
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Brett Kavanaugh
2018 - Present
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Anthony Kennedy
1988 - 2018
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Lewis Powell Jr.
1972 - 1987
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Hugo Black
1937 - 1971
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Willis Van Devanter
1911 - 1937
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Edward Douglass White
1894 - 1910
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Samuel Blatchford
1882 - 1893
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Ward Hunt
1873 - 1882
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Samuel Nelson
1845 - 1872
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Smith Thompson
1823 - 1843
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Henry Brockholst Livingston
1807-1823
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William Paterson
1793 - 1806
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Thomas Johnson
1791 - 1793
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John Rutledge
1790 - 1791
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Established by the Judiciary Act of 1789
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Ketanji Brown Jackson
2023 - Present
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Stephen Breyer
1994 - 2022
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Harry Blackmun
1970 - 1994
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Abe Fortas
1965 - 1969
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Arthur Goldberg
1962 - 1965
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Felix Frankfurter
1939 - 1962
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Benjamin Cardozo
1932 - 1938
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
1902 - 1932
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Horace Gray
1882 - 1902
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Nathan Clifford
1858 - 1881
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Benjamin Curtis
1851 - 1857
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Levi Woodbury
1845 - 1851
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Joseph Story
1812 - 1845
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William Cushing
1790 - 1810
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Established by the Judiciary Act of 1789
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Sonia Sotomayor
2009 - Present
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David Souter
1990 - 2009
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William Brennan Jr.
1956 - 1990
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Sherman Minton
1949 - 1956
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Wiley Rutledge
1943 - 1949
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James Byrnes
1941 - 1942
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James Clark McReynolds
1914 - 1941
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Horace Lurton
1910 - 1914
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Rufus Peckham
1896 - 1909
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Howell Edmunds Jackson
1893 - 1895
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Lucius Quintus Lamar
1888 - 1893
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William Burnham Woods
1881 - 1887
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William Strong
1870 - 1880
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Robert Cooper Grier
1846 - 1870
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Henry Baldwin
1830 - 1844
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Bushrod Washington
1798 - 1829
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James Wilson
1789 - 1798
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Established by the Judiciary Act of 1789
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Elena Kagan
2010 - Present
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John Paul Stevens
1975 - 2010
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William Douglas
1939 - 1975
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Louis Brandeis
1916 - 1939
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Joseph Rucker Lamar
1911 - 1916
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William Moody
1906 - 1910
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Henry Billings Brown
1891 - 1906
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Samuel Freeman Miller
1862 - 1890
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Peter V. Daniel
1842 - 1860
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Phillip P. Barbour
1836 - 1841
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Gabriel Duvall
1811 - 1835
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Samuel Chase
1796 - 1811
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John Blair
1790 - 1795
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Established by the Judiciary Act of 1789
Abolished by the Judicial Circuits Act of 1866
Re-established by the Circuit Judges Act of 1869
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Clarence Thomas
1991 - Present
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Thurgood Marshall
1967 - 1991
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Tom C. Clark
1949 - 1967
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Frank Murphy
1940 - 1949
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Pierce Butler
1923 - 1939
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William R. Day
1903 - 1922
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George Shiras Jr.
1892 - 1903
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Joseph P. Bradley
1870 - 1892
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James Moore Wayne
1835 - 1867
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William Johnson
1804 - 1834
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Alfred Moore
1800 - 1804
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James Iredell
1790 - 1799
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Established by the Seventh Circuit Act of 1807
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Amy Coney Barrett
2020 - Present
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
1993 - 2020
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Byron White
1962 - 1993
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Charles Whittaker
1857 - 1862
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Stanley Reed
1938 - 1957
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George Sutherland
1922 - 1938
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John Hessin Clarke
1916 - 1922
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Charles Evans Hughes
1910 - 1916
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David Brewer
1890 - 1910
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Stanley Matthews
1881 - 1889
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Noah Haynes Swayne
1862 - 1881
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John McLean
1829 - 1861
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Robert Trimble
1826 - 1828
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Thomas Todd
1807 - 1826
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Established by the Eighth and Ninth Circuits Act of 1837
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Samuel Alito
2006 - Present
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Sandra Day O'Connor
1981 - 2006
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Potter Stewart
1958 - 1981
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Harold Burton
1945 - 1958
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Owen Roberts
1930 - 1945
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Edward Terry Sanford
1923 - 1930
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Mahlon Pitney
1912 - 1922
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John Marshall Harlan
1877 - 1911
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David Davis
1862 - 1877
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John Campbell
1853 - 1861
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John McKinley
1938 - 1952
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Established by the Tenth Circuit Act of 1863
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Established by the Eighth and Ninth Circuits Act of 1837
Abolished by the Judicial Circuits Act of 1866