| This seat was established by the Constitution and organized on September 24, 1789 by the Judiciary Act of 1789 [see 1 Stat. 73]. |
| Morrison Waite |
March 4, 1874 – March 23, 1888 |
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Melville Fuller
October 8, 1888 –
July 4, 1910
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Edward Douglass White
December 19, 1910 –
May 19, 1921
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| Clerk |
Started |
Finished |
School(year) |
Previous clerkship |
| John J. Byrne |
1918 |
1921 |
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William Howard Taft
July 11, 1921 –
February 3, 1930
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Charles Evans Hughes
February 24, 1930 –
June 30, 1941
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Harlan Fiske Stone
July 3, 1941 –
April 22, 1946
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Fred M. Vinson
June 24, 1946 –
September 8, 1953
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Earl Warren
October 5, 1953 –
June 23, 1969
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Warren E. Burger
June 23, 1969 –
September 26, 1986
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William Rehnquist
September 26, 1986 –
September 3, 2005
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John Glover Roberts, Jr.
September 29, 2005 –
present
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| This seat was established on September 24, 1789 by the Judiciary Act of 1789 [see 1 Stat. 73]. |
| William Burnham Woods |
January 5, 1881 – May 14, 1887 |
| Lucius Q. C. Lamar |
January 18, 1888 – January 23, 1893 |
| Howell Edmunds Jackson |
March 4, 1893 – August 8, 1895 |
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Rufus Wheeler Peckham
January 6, 1896 –
October 24, 1909
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| Horace Harmon Lurton |
January 3, 1910 – July 12, 1914 |
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James Clark McReynolds
October 12, 1914 –
January 31, 1941
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James F. Byrnes
July 8, 1941 –
October 3, 1942
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| Clerk |
Started |
Finished |
School(year) |
Previous clerkship |
| James E. Doyle |
1941 |
1942 |
Columbia |
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Wiley Blount Rutledge
February 15, 1943 –
September 10, 1949
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Sherman Minton
October 12, 1949 –
October 15, 1956
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William Brennan
October 16, 1956 –
July 20, 1990
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David Souter
October 9, 1990 –
June 29, 2009
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Sonia Sotomayor
August 8, 2009 –
present
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| This seat was established on September 24, 1789 by the Judiciary Act of 1789 [see 1 Stat. 73]. |
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Horace Gray
January 9, 1882 –
September 15, 1902
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
December 8, 1902 –
January 12, 1932
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Benjamin N. Cardozo
March 14, 1932 –
July 9, 1938
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Felix Frankfurter
January 30, 1939 –
August 28, 1962
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Arthur J. Goldberg
October 1, 1962 –
July 25, 1965
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Abe Fortas
October 4, 1965 –
May 14, 1969
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Harry Blackmun
June 9, 1970 –
August 3, 1994
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Stephen Breyer
August 3, 1994 –
present
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| This seat was established on September 24, 1789 by the Judiciary Act of 1789 [see 1 Stat. 73]. |
| Samuel Freeman Miller |
July 21, 1862 – October 13, 1890 |
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Henry Billings Brown
January 5, 1891 –
May 28, 1906
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| Clerk |
Started |
Finished |
School(year) |
Previous clerkship |
| A. B. Hall |
1890 |
1896 |
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| William Henry Moody |
December 17, 1906 – November 20, 1910 |
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Joseph Rucker Lamar
January 3, 1911 –
January 2, 1916
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Louis Dembitz Brandeis
June 5, 1916 –
February 13, 1939
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William O. Douglas
April 17, 1939 –
November 12, 1975
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John Paul Stevens
December 19, 1975 –
June 29, 2010
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Elena Kagan
August 7, 2010 –
present
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| This seat was established on September 24, 1789 by the Judiciary Act of 1789 [see 1 Stat. 73]. |
| Samuel Blatchford |
April 3, 1882 – July 7, 1893 |
| Edward Douglass White |
March 12, 1894 – December 18, 1910 |
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Willis Van Devanter
January 3, 1911 –
June 2, 1937
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Hugo Black
August 19, 1937 –
September 17, 1971
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Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr.
January 7, 1972 –
June 26, 1987
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Anthony Kennedy
February 18, 1988 –
present
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| This seat was established on February 24, 1807 by the Seventh Circuit Act (see 2 Stat. 420). |
| Thomas Stanley Matthews |
May 17, 1881 – March 22, 1889 |
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David Josiah Brewer
January 6, 1890 –
March 28, 1910
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| Charles Evans Hughes |
October 10, 1910 – June 10, 1916 |
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John Hessin Clarke
October 9, 1916 –
September 18, 1922
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George Sutherland
October 2, 1922 –
January 17, 1924
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Stanley Forman Reed
January 31, 1938 –
February 25, 1957
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Charles Evans Whittaker
March 25, 1957 –
March 31, 1962
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Byron White
April 16, 1962 –
June 28, 1993
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
August 10, 1993 –
present
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| This seat was established on March 3, 1837 by the Eighth and Ninth Circuits Act [see 5 Stat. 176]. |
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John Marshall Harlan
December 10, 1877 –
October 14, 1911
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| Mahlon Pitney |
March 18, 1912 – December 31, 1922 |
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Edward Terry Sanford
February 19, 1923 –
March 8, 1930
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| Clerk |
Started |
Finished |
School(year) |
Previous clerkship |
| William R. Loney |
1922 |
1930 |
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Owen Josephus Roberts
June 2, 1930 –
July 31, 1945
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Harold Hitz Burton
October 1, 1945 –
October 13, 1958
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Potter Stewart
October 14, 1958 –
July 3, 1981
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Sandra Day O'Connor
September 25, 1981 –
January 31, 2006
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Samuel Alito
January 31, 2006 –
present
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| This seat was established on March 3, 1863 by the Tenth Circuit Act [see 12 Stat. 794]. |
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Stephen Johnson Field
May 20, 1863 –
December 1, 1897
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Joseph McKenna
January 26, 1898 –
January 5, 1925
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Harlan Fiske Stone
March 2, 1925 –
July 2, 1941
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Robert H. Jackson
July 11, 1941 –
October 9, 1954
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John Marshall Harlan II
March 28, 1955 –
September 23, 1971
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William Rehnquist
January 7, 1972 –
September 26, 1986
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Antonin Scalia
September 26, 1986 –
present
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| This seat was established on April 10, 1869 by the Circuit Judges Act of 1869 [see 16 Stat. 44]. |
| Joseph Philo Bradley |
March 23, 1870 – January 22, 1892 |
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George Shiras, Jr.
October 10, 1892 –
February 23, 1903
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William R. Day
March 2, 1903 –
November 13, 1922
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| Clerk |
Started |
Finished |
School(year) |
Previous clerkship |
| Rufus Day |
1907 |
1911 |
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| Rufus Day |
1917 |
1919 |
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Pierce Butler
January 2, 1923 –
November 16, 1939
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Frank Murphy
February 5, 1940 –
July 19, 1949
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Tom C. Clark
August 24, 1949 –
June 12, 1967
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Thurgood Marshall
October 2, 1967 –
October 1, 1991
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Clarence Thomas
October 23, 1991 –
present
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