Supreme Court of the United States
Current justices

Supreme Court of the United States

Section Title: Current justices
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Justice / Birthdate and place	Appointed by	SCV	Age at	Start date / Length of service	Previous position or office (Most recent prior to joining the Court)	Succeeded

Start	Present

-	John Roberts January 27, 1955 Buffalo, New York	G. W. Bush	78–22	50	64	September 29, 2005 13 years, 213 days	Circuit Judge, Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (2003–2005)	Rehnquist

-	Clarence Thomas June 23, 1948 Pin Point, Georgia	G. H. W. Bush	52–48	43	70	October 23, 1991 27 years, 189 days	Circuit Judge, Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (1990–1991)	Marshall

-	Ruth Bader Ginsburg March 15, 1933 Brooklyn, New York	Clinton	96–3	60	86	August 10, 1993 25 years, 263 days	Circuit Judge, Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (1980–1993)	White

-	Stephen Breyer August 15, 1938 San Francisco, California	Clinton	87–9	55	80	August 3, 1994 24 years, 270 days	Chief Judge, Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (1990–1994)	Blackmun

-	Samuel Alito April 1, 1950 Trenton, New Jersey	G. W. Bush	58–42	55	69	January 31, 2006 13 years, 89 days	Circuit Judge, Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1990–2006)	O'Connor

-	Sonia Sotomayor June 25, 1954 The Bronx, New York	Obama	68–31	55	64	August 8, 2009 9 years, 265 days	Circuit Judge, Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1998–2009)	Souter

-	Elena Kagan April 28, 1960 Manhattan, New York	Obama	63–37	50	59	August 7, 2010 8 years, 268 days	Solicitor General of the United States (2009–2010)	Stevens

-	Neil Gorsuch August 29, 1967 Denver, Colorado	Trump	54–45	49	51	April 10, 2017 2 years, 20 days	Circuit Judge, Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (2006–2017)	Scalia

-	Brett Kavanaugh February 12, 1965 Washington, D.C.	Trump	50–48	53	54	October 6, 2018 206 days	Circuit Judge, Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (2006–2018)	Kennedy

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Sentence(s)

Clarence Thomas is the longest-serving justice, with a tenure of 27 years, 189 days and the most recent justice to join the court is Brett Kavanaugh, whose tenure began on October 6, 2018.

final_sentence: Clarence Thomas is the longest-serving justice, with a tenure of 27 years, 189 days and the most recent justice to join the court is Brett Kavanaugh, whose tenure began on October 6, 2018.