List of United States Supreme Court Justices by time in office
Justices by time in office

List of United States Supreme Court Justices by time in office

Section Title: Justices by time in office
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Rank	Justice	Length in days	Start date	End date

1	William O. Douglas	13,358	April 17, 1939	November 12, 1975

2	Stephen Johnson Field	12,614	May 20, 1863	December 1, 1897

3	John Paul Stevens	12,611	December 19, 1975	June 29, 2010

4	John Marshall (CJ)	12,570	February 4, 1801	July 6, 1835

5	Hugo Black	12,447	August 19, 1937	September 17, 1971

6	John Marshall Harlan	12,360	December 10, 1877	October 14, 1911

7	William J. Brennan Jr.	12,330	October 16, 1956	July 20, 1990

8	William Rehnquist (CJ)	12,293	January 7, 1972 September 26, 1986	September 26, 1986 September 3, 2005

9	Joseph Story	12,273	February 3, 1812	September 10, 1845

10	James Moore Wayne	11,860	January 14, 1835	July 5, 1867

11	John McLean	11,406	January 11, 1830	April 4, 1861

12	Byron White	11,396	April 16, 1962	June 28, 1993

13	Bushrod Washington	11,339	November 9, 1798	November 26, 1829

14	Anthony Kennedy	11,121	February 18, 1988	July 31, 2018

15	William Johnson	11,046	May 7, 1804	August 4, 1834

16	Antonin Scalia	10,732	September 26, 1986	February 13, 2016

17	Oliver Wendell Holmes	10,627	December 8, 1902	January 12, 1932

18	Roger B. Taney (CJ)	10,425	March 28, 1836	October 12, 1864

19	Samuel Freeman Miller	10,311	July 21, 1862	October 13, 1890

20	John Catron	10,256	May 1, 1837	May 30, 1865

21	Samuel Nelson	10,136	February 27, 1845	November 28, 1872

22	Clarence Thomas	10,052	October 23, 1991	Incumbent

23	Edward Douglass White (CJ)	9,929	March 12, 1894 December 19, 1910	December 19, 1910 May 19, 1921

24	Joseph McKenna	9,840	January 26, 1898	January 5, 1925

25	Willis Van Devanter	9,647	January 3, 1911	June 2, 1937

26	James Clark McReynolds	9,608	October 12, 1914	January 31, 1941

27	Ruth Bader Ginsburg	9,395	August 10, 1993	Incumbent

28	Stephen Breyer	9,037	August 3, 1994	Incumbent

29	Sandra Day O'Connor	8,894	September 25, 1981	January 31, 2006

30	Harry Blackmun	8,821	June 9, 1970	August 3, 1994

31	Thurgood Marshall	8,765	October 2, 1967	October 1, 1991

32	Felix Frankfurter	8,611	January 30, 1939	August 28, 1962

33	Nathan Clifford	8,586	January 21, 1858	July 25, 1881

34	Robert Cooper Grier	8,575	August 10, 1846	January 31, 1870

35	Gabriel Duvall	8,453	November 23, 1811	January 14, 1835

36	Potter Stewart	8,298	October 14, 1958	July 3, 1981

37	Louis Brandeis	8,288	June 5, 1916	February 13, 1939

38	Joseph P. Bradley	7,975	March 23, 1870	January 22, 1892

39	Melville Fuller (CJ)	7,938	October 8, 1888	July 4, 1910

40	Harlan F. Stone (CJ)	7,721	March 2, 1925 July 3, 1941	July 2, 1941 April 22, 1946

41	Horace Gray	7,553	January 9, 1882	September 15, 1902

42	William Cushing	7,527	February 2, 1790	September 13, 1810

43	Smith Thompson	7,413	September 1, 1823	December 18, 1843

44	David Josiah Brewer	7,385	January 6, 1890	March 28, 1910

45	William R. Day	7,196	March 2, 1903	November 13, 1922

46	Stanley Forman Reed	6,965	January 31, 1938	February 25, 1957

47	Noah Haynes Swayne	6,937	January 27, 1862	January 24, 1881

48	Thomas Todd	6,854	May 4, 1807	February 7, 1826

49	David Souter	6,838	October 9, 1990	June 29, 2009

50	Peter Vivian Daniel	6,716	January 10, 1842	May 31, 1860

51	Tom C. Clark	6,501	August 24, 1949	June 12, 1967

52	Warren E. Burger (CJ)	6,304	June 23, 1969	September 26, 1986

53	Charles Evans Hughes (CJ)	6,214	October 10, 1910 February 24, 1930	June 10, 1916 June 30, 1941

54	Pierce Butler	6,162	January 2, 1923	November 16, 1939

55	John Marshall Harlan II	6,023	March 28, 1955	September 23, 1971

56	Henry Brockholst Livingston	5,901	January 20, 1807	March 18, 1823

57	Earl Warren (CJ)	5,740	October 5, 1953	June 23, 1969

58	Lewis Franklin Powell	5,649	January 7, 1972	June 26, 1987

59	Henry Billings Brown	5,621	January 5, 1891	May 28, 1906

60	Samuel Chase	5,613	February 4, 1796	June 19, 1811

61	George Sutherland	5,586	October 2, 1922	January 17, 1938

62	Owen Roberts	5,538	June 2, 1930	July 31, 1945

63	John McKinley	5,305	January 9, 1838	July 19, 1852

64	Henry Baldwin	5,207	January 18, 1830	April 21, 1844

65	David Davis	5,198	December 10, 1862	March 4, 1877

66	Morrison Waite (CJ)	5,133	March 4, 1874	March 23, 1888

67	Rufus Wheeler Peckham	5,039	January 6, 1896	October 24, 1909

68	John Roberts (CJ)	4,962	September 29, 2005	Incumbent

69	William Paterson	4,929	March 11, 1793	September 9, 1806

70	Samuel Alito	4,838	January 31, 2006	Incumbent

71	Robert H. Jackson	4,838	July 11, 1941	October 9, 1954

72	Harold Hitz Burton	4,760	October 1, 1945	October 13, 1958

73	Samuel Blatchford	4,113	April 3, 1882	July 7, 1893

74	Mahlon Pitney	3,940	March 18, 1912	December 31, 1922

75	William Strong	3,928	March 14, 1870	December 14, 1880

76	George Shiras Jr.	3,787	October 10, 1892	February 23, 1903

77	Sonia Sotomayor	3,553	August 8, 2009	Incumbent

78	Frank Murphy	3,452	February 5, 1940	July 19, 1949

79	James Iredell	3,448	May 12, 1790	October 20, 1799

80	Ward Hunt	3,305	January 9, 1873	January 27, 1882

81	James Wilson	3,242	October 5, 1789	August 21, 1798

82	Elena Kagan	3,189	August 7, 2010	Incumbent

83	William Howard Taft (CJ)	3,129	July 11, 1921	February 3, 1930

84	Salmon P. Chase (CJ)	3,065	December 15, 1864	May 7, 1873

85	John Archibald Campbell	2,941	April 11, 1853	April 30, 1861

86	Stanley Matthews	2,866	May 17, 1881	March 22, 1889

87	Fred M. Vinson (CJ)	2,633	June 24, 1946	September 8, 1953

88	Edward Terry Sanford	2,574	February 19, 1923	March 8, 1930

89	Sherman Minton	2,560	October 12, 1949	October 15, 1956

90	Wiley Blount Rutledge	2,399	February 15, 1943	September 10, 1949

91	William Burnham Woods	2,320	January 5, 1881	May 14, 1887

92	Benjamin N. Cardozo	2,308	March 14, 1932	July 9, 1938

93	Benjamin Robbins Curtis	2,182	October 10, 1851	September 30, 1857

94	Levi Woodbury	2,172	September 23, 1845	September 4, 1851

95	John Hessin Clarke	2,170	October 9, 1916	September 18, 1922

96	John Blair	2,091	February 2, 1790	October 25, 1795

97	John Jay (CJ)	2,079	October 19, 1789	June 29, 1795

98 (tie)	Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar	1,832	January 18, 1888	January 23, 1893

Charles Evans Whittaker	1,832	March 25, 1957	March 31, 1962

100	Joseph Rucker Lamar	1,825	January 3, 1911	January 2, 1916

101	Philip Pendleton Barbour	1,750	May 12, 1836	February 25, 1841

102	Oliver Ellsworth (CJ)	1,742	March 8, 1796	December 15, 1800

103	Horace Harmon Lurton	1,651	January 3, 1910	July 12, 1914

104	William Henry Moody	1,434	December 17, 1906	November 20, 1910

105	Alfred Moore	1,375	April 21, 1800	January 26, 1804

106	Abe Fortas	1,318	October 4, 1965	May 14, 1969

107	Arthur Goldberg	1,028	October 1, 1962	July 25, 1965

108	Howell Edmunds Jackson	887	March 4, 1893	August 8, 1895

109	Robert Trimble	801	June 16, 1826	August 25, 1828

110	Neil Gorsuch	751	April 10, 2017	Incumbent

111	John Rutledge (CJ)	521	February 15, 1790 August 12, 1795	March 5, 1791 December 28, 1795

112	James F. Byrnes	452	July 8, 1941	October 3, 1942

113	Brett Kavanaugh	207	October 6, 2018	Incumbent

114	Thomas Johnson	163	August 6, 1792	January 16, 1793

Sentence(s)

Rehnquist served as Chief Justice for nearly 19 years, making him the eighth-longest-serving Chief Justice.

final_sentence: Rehnquist served as Chief Justice for nearly 19 years, making him the eighth-longest-serving Chief Justice.