Supreme Court Genealogy: Name and year appointed
CHIEF JUSTICE (established by the Constitution; implemented September 1789)
John G. Roberts - 2005
William Rehnquist - 1986
Warren E. Burger - 1969
Earl Warren - 1953
Fred Moore Vinson - 1946
Harlan F. Stone - 1941
Charles Evans Hughes - 1930
William Howard Taft - 1921
Edward D. White - 1910
Melville W. Fuller - 1888
Morrison R. Waite - 1874
Salmon P. Chase - 1864
Roger B. Taney - 1835
John Marshall - 1801
Oliver Ellsworth - 1796
John Rutledge - 1795
John Jay - 1789
SEAT 1 (established September 1789)
Sonia Sotomayor - 2009
David Souter - 1990
William Joseph Brennan Jr. - 1956
Sherman Minton - 1949
Wiley Blount Rutledge - 1943
James F. Byrnes - 1941
James Clark McReynolds - 1914
Horace Harmon Lurton - 1909
Rufus Wheeler Peckham - 1895
Howell Edmunds Jackson - 1893
Lucius Q.C. Lamar - 1887
William Burnham Woods - 1880
William Strong - 1870
Robert Cooper Grier - 1846
Henry Baldwin - 1830
Bushrod Washington - 1798
James Wilson - 1789
SEAT 2 (established September 1789):
Stephen Breyer - 1994
Harry Andrew Blackmun - 1970
Abe Fortas - 1965
Arthur Goldberg - 1962
Felix Frankfurter - 1939
Benjamin N. Cardozo - 1932
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. - 1902
Horace Gray - 1881
Nathan Clifford - 1857
Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1851
Levi Woodbury - 1845
Joseph Story - 1811
William Cushing - 1789
SEAT 3 (established September 1789):
Elena Kagan - 2010
John Paul Stevens - 1975
William O. Douglas - 1939
Louis Dembitz Brandeis - 1916
Joseph Rucker Lamar - 1910
William Henry Moody - 1906
Henry Billings Brown - 1890
Samuel Freeman Miller - 1862
Peter Vivian Daniel - 1841
Philip Pendleton Barbour - 1835
Gabriel Duvall - 1811
Samuel Chase - 1796
John Blair Jr. - 1789
SEAT 4 (established 1789):
Anthony Kennedy - 1987
Lewis F. Powell Jr. - 1971
Hugo Black - 1937
Willis Van Devanter - 1910
Edward D. White - 1894
Samuel Blatchford - 1882
Ward Hunt - 1872
Samuel Nelson - 1845
Smith Thompson - 1823
Henry Brockholst Livingston - 1806
William Paterson - 1793
Thomas Johnson - 1791
John Rutledge - 1789
SEAT 5 (established 1789/abolished July 1867):
James More Wayne - 1835
William Johnson - 1804
Alfred More - 1800
James Iredell - 1790
SEAT 6 (established February 1807):
Ruth Bader Ginsburg - 1993
Byron Raymond White - 1962
Charles Evans Whittaker - 1957
Stanley Forman Reed - 1938
George Sutherland - 1922
John Hessin Clarke - 1916
Charles Evans Hughes - 1910
David Josiah Brewer - 1889
Stanley Matthews - 1881
Noah Haynes Swayne - 1862
John McLean - 1829
Robert Trimble - 1826
Thomas Todd - 1807
SEAT 7 (established March 1837/abolished July 1866):
John Catron - 1837
SEAT 8 (established March 1837):
Samuel Alito - 2005
Sandra Day O’Connor - 1981
Potter Stewart - 1958
Harold Hitz Burton - 1945
Owen Josephus Roberts - 1930
Edward Terry Sanford - 1923
Mahlon Pitney - 1912
John Marshall Harlan - 1877
David Davis - 1862
John Archibald Campbell - 1853
John McKinley - 1837
Seat 9 (established March 1863):
Antonin Scalia - 1986
William Rehnquist - 1971
John Marshall Harlan II - 1955
Robert H. Jackson - 1941
Harlan F. Stone - 1925
Joseph McKenna - 1897
Stephen Johnson Field - 1863
Seat 10 (established April 1869):
Clarence Thomas - 1991
Thurgood Marshall - 1967
Tom Campbell Clark - 1949
W. Frank Murphy - 1940
Pierce Butler - 1922
William R. Day - 1903
George Shiras Jr. - 1892
Joseph P. Bradley – 1870