Chief Justice Earl Warren
Justice Hugo Black
Justice Felix Frankfurter
Justice William O. Douglas
Justice Tom C. Clark
Justice John Marshall Harlan II
Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.
Justice Charles Evans Whittaker
Justice Potter Stewart
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Chief Justice
William H. Rehnquist
Associate Justices
William J. Brennan, Jr.
Byron White
Thurgood Marshall
Harry Blackmun
John Paul Stevens
Sandra Day O'Connor
Antonin Scalia
Anthony Kennedy (February)
Chief Justice
William H. Rehnquist
Associate Justices
William J. Brennan, Jr.
Byron White
Thurgood Marshall
Harry Blackmun
John Paul Stevens
Sandra Day O'Connor
Antonin Scalia
Anthony Kennedy
Chief Justice
William H. Rehnquist
Associate Justices
John Paul Stevens
Sandra Day O'Connor
Antonin Scalia
Anthony Kennedy
David H. Souter
Clarence Thomas
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Stephen Breyer
Chief Justice
William J. Rehnquist
Associate Justices
John Paul Stevens
Sandra Day O'Connor
Antonin Scalia
Anthony Kennedy
David Souter
Clarence Thomas
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Stephen Breyer
Chief Justice
William Rehnquist......................1972 - 2005................Nixon (elevated by Reagan)
Associate Justices
William Brennan, Jr....................1956 - 1990.................Eisenhower
Byron White..............................1962 - 1993.................Kennedy
Thurgood Marshall.....................1967 - 1991.................Johnson
Harry Blackmun........................1970 - 1994..................Nixon
John Paul Stevens.....................1975 - Present...............Ford
Sandra Day O'Connor.................1981 - 2006..................Reagan
Antonin Scalia..........................1986 - Present...............Reagan
Anthony Kennedy......................1988 - Present...............Reagan
Chief Justice
Fred M. Vinson
Associate Justices
Hugo Black
Stanley Forman Reed
Felix Frankfurter
William O. Douglas
Frank Murphy (until July; succeeded by Tom C. Clark)
Robert H. Jackson
Wiley Blount Rutledge (until September; succeeded by Sherman Minton)
Harold Hitz Burton
Tom C. Clark (beginning in August; succeeded Frank Murphy)
Sherman Minton (beginning in October; succeeded Wiley Rutledge)
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.
All 112 justices in the history of the US Supreme Court (as of 2011) have been lawyers.
In keeping with tradition, the US Supreme Court justices wear black robes over their street clothes.
Federal judges on the US Supreme Court are called justices.
No. The Executive Branch appoints US Supreme Court justices with the approval of the Senate.