| Name of Justice |
Prior Occupations |
Years On Court |
Appointed By President: |
| 1. William Rehnquist |
Asst. U.S. Attorney General |
1972-2005 |
Nixon (Assoc., 1972),
Reagan (Chief, 1986) |
| 2. Lewis Powell |
President of the American Bar Ass'n,
Private Practice |
1972-1987 |
Nixon |
| 3. Abe Fortas |
Private Practice |
1965-1969 |
Johnson |
| 4. Byron White |
Deputy U.S. Attorney General |
1962-1993 |
Kennedy |
| 5. Arthur Goldberg |
U.S. Secretary of Labor |
1962-1965 |
Kennedy |
| 6. Earl Warren |
Governor of California |
1953-1969 |
Eisenhower |
| 7. Tom Clark |
U.S. Attorney General |
1949-1967 |
Truman |
| 8. Harold Burton |
U.S. Senator |
1945-1958 |
Truman |
| 9. Robert Jackson |
U.S. Attorney General |
1941-1954 |
F. Roosevelt |
| 10. James Francis Byrnes |
U.S. Senator |
1941-1942 |
F. Roosevelt |
| 11. William O. Douglas |
Chairman of the S.E.C. |
1939-1975 |
F. Roosevelt |
| 12. Felix Frankfurter |
Asst. U.S. Attorney, Asst. Secretary of War,
Prof. of Law at Harvard |
1939-1962 |
F. Roosevelt |
| 13. Stanley Forman Reed |
U.S. Solicitor General |
1938-1957 |
F. Roosevelt |
| 14. Owen Josephus Roberts |
Special Counsel in "Teapot Dome" investigation and trials |
1930-1945 |
Hoover |
| 15. Harlan Fiske Stone |
U.S. Attorney General |
1925-1946 |
Coolidge (Assoc., 1925),
F. Roosevelt (Chief, 1941) |
| 16. Pierce Butler |
County Attorney, Private Practice |
1923-1939 |
Harding |
| 17. George Sutherland |
U.S. Senator |
1922-1938 |
Harding |
| 18. Louis Brandeis |
Private Practice |
1916-1939 |
Wilson |
| 19. James Clark McReynolds |
U.S. Attorney General |
1914-1941 |
Wilson |
| 20. Charles Evans Hughes |
Governor of New York,
U.S. Secretary of State |
1910-1916,
1930-1941 |
Taft (Assoc., 1910),
Hoover (Chief, 1930) |
| 21. William Henry Moody |
U.S. Attorney General |
1906-1910 |
T. Roosevelt |
| 22. George Shiras, Jr |
Private Practice |
1892-1903 |
Harrison |
| 23. Melville Fuller |
Private Practice |
1888-1910 |
Cleveland |
| 24. Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar |
U.S. Secretary of the Interior, U.S. Senator |
1888-1893 |
Cleveland |
| 25. Joseph Philo Bradley |
Private Practice |
1870-1892 |
Grant |
| 26. Salmon P. Chase |
U.S. Treasury Secretary |
1864-1873 |
Lincoln |
| 27. Samuel Freeman Miller |
Private Practice |
1862-1890 |
Lincoln |
| 28. Noah Haynes Swayne |
U.S. Attorney for Ohio, Ohio Legislator |
1862-1881 |
Lincoln |
| 29. Nathan Clifford |
Maine & U.S. Attorney General |
1858-1881 |
Buchanan |
| 30. John Archibald Campbell |
Alabama Legislator |
1853-1861 |
Pierce |
| 31. Benjamin Robbins Curtis |
Massachusetts Legislator |
1851-1857 |
Fillmore |
| 32. John McKinley |
U.S. Senator |
1838-1852 |
Van Buren |
| 33. Roger Brooke Taney |
Maryland & U.S. Attorney General,
U.S. Treasury Secretary |
1836-1864 |
Jackson |
| 34. Henry Baldwin |
U.S. Congressman |
1830-1844 |
Jackson |
| 35. Joseph Story |
Speaker of Mass. House of Reps., U.S. Congressman |
1812-1845 |
Madison |
| 36. John Marshall |
U.S. Secretary of State |
1801-1835 |
Adams |
| 37. Bushrod Washington |
Virginia House of Delegates,
Reporter for Virginia Court of
Appeals |
1799-1829 |
Adams |
| 38. William Paterson |
Governor of New Jersey |
1793-1806 |
Washington |
| 39. John Jay |
President of the Continental Congress,
U.S. Secretary of
Foreign Affairs |
1789-1795 |
Washington |
| 40. John Rutledge |
Governor of South Carolina |
1789-1791, 1795 |
Washington |
