page_title: List of Yale University people
section_title: Supreme Court justices
hierarchical_section_title: List of Yale University people / Law and politics / Supreme Court justices
caption_attribution_description: English: Official portrait of United States Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas. From the Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States.
context_page_description: Yalies are persons affiliated with Yale University, commonly including alumni, current and former faculty members, students, and others. Here follows a list of notable Yalies.
context_section_description: Information can be verified through the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges.
  Samuel Alito (J.D. 1975), Supreme Court justice (2006–present)
  Henry Baldwin (1797), Supreme Court justice (1830–1844)
  David J. Brewer (1856), Supreme Court justice (1889–1910)
  Henry Billings Brown (1856, and law study, LL.D. 1891), Supreme Court justice (1891–1906)
  David Davis (Law 1835), Supreme Court justice (1862–1877)
  Oliver Ellsworth (Class of 1766), Supreme Court justice (1796–1800)
  Abe Fortas (Law 1933), Supreme Court justice (1965–1969)
  Brett Kavanaugh (J.D 1990), Supreme Court Justice (2018–present)
  Sherman Minton (YLS one-year degree, 1917), Supreme Court justice (1949–1956)
  George Shiras, Jr. (1853), Supreme Court justice (1892–1903)
  Sonia Sotomayor (J.D. 1979), Supreme Court justice (2009–present)
  Potter Stewart (1937, Law 1941), Supreme Court justice (1958–1981)
  William Strong (1828, GRD 1831, briefly attended YLS), Supreme Court justice (1870–1880)
  William Howard Taft (B.A. 1878, LL.D. 1893), 27th President of the United States (1909–1913), 10th chief justice of the United States (1921–1930)
  Clarence Thomas (J.D. 1974), Supreme Court justice (1991–present)
  Morrison R. Waite (1837), Chief Justice of the United States (1874–1888)
  Byron White (Law 1946), Supreme Court justice (1962–1993)
  William B. Woods (1845), Supreme Court justice (1881–1887)
caption: Abe Fortas
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