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Since the Supreme Court was established in 1789, 116 people have served on the Court. The length of service on the Court for the 107 non-incumbent justices ranges from William O. Douglas's 36 years, 209 days to John Rutledge's 1 year, 18 days as associate justice and, separated by a period of years off the Court, his 138 days as chief justice.
Congress specified the Court's original and appellate jurisdiction, created 13 judicial districts, and fixed the initial size of the Supreme Court. The number of justices on the Supreme Court was changed six times before settling at the present total of nine in 1869. [1] A total of 115 persons have served on the Supreme Court since 1789.
How many justices are on the Supreme Court? Nine justices make up the United States Supreme Court. A chief justice and eight associate justices sit on the court. ... The current number of nine ...
The Judiciary Act of 1789 (1 Stat. 73) set the number of Supreme Court justices at six: one chief justice and five associate justices. [2] One of the associate justice seats established in 1789 (seat 5 below) was later abolished, as a result of the Judicial Circuits Act of 1866 (14 Stat. 209), which provided for the gradual elimination of seats on the Supreme Court until there would be seven ...
Among the current members of the court, Clarence Thomas's tenure of 12,128 days (33 years, 74 days) [B] is the longest, while Ketanji Brown Jackson's 920 days (2 years, 189 days) [B] is the shortest. The table below ranks all United States Supreme Court justices by time in office.
Since the Supreme Court first convened in 1790, 116 justices have served on the bench. Of those, 108 have been White men. But in recent decades the court has become more diverse.
The United States Supreme Court is the highest federal appellate court. Its members are commonly called justices. The following table lists annual salary increases for the justices from 1789 to present.
Supreme Court justices are set to decide a series of blockbuster cases before the current term concludes at the end of June. Learn more on how SCOTUS justices voted.