A justice on the Supreme Court of the United States has no tenure. It is a lifetime appointment. The justice may, however, choose to retire at any time.
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According to a 2008 report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the average tenure of federal court judges below the US Supreme Court is approximately 20-24 years (no fixed average available); the average tenure for US Supreme Court justices was approximately 25.5 years, but has been as high as 26.1 years. In 1970, the average tenure of a Supreme Court justice was around 15 years.
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The president gets to choose the justices himself
Nine Justices Nine Justices make up the current Supreme Court: one Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices. There have been 103 Associate Justices in the Court's history.