President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., appointed her to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2021 and then nominated her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in 2022.

The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest-ranking judicial body in the United States. Its membership, as set by the Judiciary Act of 1869, consists of the chief justice of the United States and eight associate justices, any six of whom constitute a quorum.

Nine Justices make up the current Supreme Court: one Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices. The Honorable John G. Roberts, Jr., is the 17th Chief Justice of the United States, and there have been 104 Associate Justices in the Court’s history.

Jun 30, 2022 · A table listing all Justices who have served or are currently serving on the Supreme Court.

A plan by Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt to allow him to appoint an additional justice for each member of the court age 70 years or older who refused to retire was rejected in the 1930s. This is a chronologically ordered list of Supreme Court justices, from the earliest to the most recent.

May 30, 2023 · More than 100 individuals have served as justices on the United Supreme Court since its creation in 1789. Their education and experience vary from the Ivy Leagues to self-taught advocates (in recent years, there have been more of the former).

The following tables detail the succession of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States by seat. There are no formal numbers or names for the individual seats of associate justices, which are listed in this article simply by number, as well as …

When the Judiciary Act of 1789 created the U.S. Supreme Court, it consisted of six members: a Chief Justice and five Associate Justices. Over the next several decades, the size of the Court fluctuated before settling at its current size of nine members with the Judiciary Act of 1869.

Jul 1, 2022 · The following table lists the current members of the United States Supreme Court, including the Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices. Antonin Scalia died in February 2016, creating a vacancy among the Associate Justices that would be filled by Neil Gorsuch in 2017.

Jan 27, 2025 · The table provides a list of U.S. Supreme Court justices. *The date the justice took the judicial oath is here used as the beginning date of service, for until that oath is taken the justice is not vested with the prerogatives of the office.