1886-1971
Harry Blackmun was the 98th U.S. Supreme Court Justice, known for his landmark ruling in the case of Roe v. Wade.
1908-1999
Louis Brandeis was the first Jew to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court. His decisions affirmed individual liberty and privacy and opposed unchecked governmental power.
1856-1941
1906-1997
1907-1995
1870-1938
As Secretary of the Treasury under Lincoln, Salmon P. Chase implemented the National Banking Act and was the sixth chief justice of the Supreme Court.
1808-1873
Appointed Attorney General by President Harry Truman, Tom C. Clark went on to become a U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
1899-1977
William O. Douglas was a government official who in 1939 became the second youngest Supreme Court justice in U.S. history.
1898-1980
Nominated to replace Earl Warren as chief justice in 1968, Abe Fortas became the first nominee for that post since 1795 to fail to win Senate approval.
1910-1982
Associate Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter was a noted law scholar who served as the high court's leading exponent of the doctrine of judicial self-restraint.
1882-1965
Melville Fuller was Chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1888 to 1910.
1833-1910
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, the second woman to be appointed to the position.
1933-
In the 1960s, Arthur J. Goldberg held many important government posts, serving as secretary of labor, a Supreme Court justice and ambassador to the United Nations.
1908-1990
1833-1911
1841-1935
Robert H. Jackson, the only Supreme Court Justice who didn't graduate from any law school, is best known as the chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials.
1892-1954
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, John Jay is known as a writer of The Federalist Papers and for being the nation's first chief justice.
1745-1829
First female politician,attorney to serve as solicitor general of the United States of America.
1960-
Anthony Kennedy is an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court who was appointed by Ronald Reagan.
1936-
John Marshall became the fourth chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1801. He is largely responsible for establishing the Supreme Court's role in federal government.
1755-1835
Thurgood Marshall was instrumental in ending legal segregation and became the first African-American justice of the Supreme Court.
1908-1993
1890-1949
Sandra Day O'Connor was the first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. A Republican, she was considered a moderate conservative and served for 24 years.
1930-
1745-1806
Lewis Powell was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1972 to 1987.
1907-1998
1917-2002
William Rehnquist was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Richard Nixon in 1971. He was elevated to the post of chief justice by President Ronald Reagan in 1986. He remained chief justice until his death in 2005.
1924-2005
John Roberts became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court after he was nominated by George W. Bush in 2005.
1955-
Antonin Scalia is best known as an Associate Justice for the U.S. Supreme Court, appointed in 1986 by Ronald Reagan.
1936-
Nominated by President Barack Obama on May 26, 2009, Sonia Sotomayor became the first Latina Supreme Court Justice in US history.
1954-
Edwin Stanton served as secretary of war under President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War. He later served under President Andrew Johnson.
1814-1869
1920-
1872-1946
William Howard Taft, the 27th president of the United States, fulfilled a lifelong dream when he was appointed chief justice of the Supreme Court, becoming the only person to have served as both a U.S. chief justice and president.
1857-1930
Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney made the pro-slavery ruling in the 1857 Dred Scot Case that deemed blacks weren't citizens of the United States.
1777-1864
Clarence Thomas is the second African-American justice to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. He was appointed in 1991 and leans conservative.
1948-
1890-1953
Earl Warren served as governor of california, chief justice of the Supreme Court and head of the commission that investigated the JFK assassination.
1891-1974