| 1789-1795 | John Jay | George Washington | - | - | Chief Justice from 1789-1795; first Chief Justice of the US; Chief Justice of New York from 1777-1779; President of the Continental Congress from 1778-1779; negotiated the Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary War; Governor of New York from 1795-1801; one of the co-authors of the Federalist Papers |
| 1801-1835 | John Marshall | John Adams | - | - | Chief Justice from 1801-1835; tradition says the Liberty Bell cracked in 1835 while tolling his death; longest-serving Chief Justice in US history; in his ruling on McCulloch v. Maryland, he said "The power to tax involves the power to destroy" |
| 1921-1930 | William Howard Taft | Warren G. Harding | - | - | Chief Justice from 1921-1930; only president who also served on the Supreme Court |
| 1953-1969 | Earl Warren | Dwight Eisenhower | - | - | Chief Justice from 1953-1969; Governor of California from 1943-1953; Thomas Dewey's running mate in the 1948 Presidential Election; chaired the commission which investigated the deaths of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald; Eisenhower said that nominating him was the "biggest damfool mistake I ever made" |
| 1967-1991 | Thurgood Marshall | Lyndon Johnson | - | Clarence Thomas | chief counsel for the NAACP from 1938-1950; winning lawyer of the Brown v. Board of Education case; first African-American to serve on the Supreme Court; a native of Baltimore, its international airport is named after him |
| 1981-2006 | Sandra Day O'Connor | Ronald Reagan | Potter Stewart | Samuel Alito | first woman on the Supreme Court |
| 1991-present | Clarence Thomas | George H.W. Bush | Thurgood Marshall | - | during his confirmation hearings, former suboridinate Anita Hill testified that he frequently made inappropriate sexual comments |
| 1993-2020 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg | Bill Clinton | Byron "Whizzer" White | Amy Coney Barrett | second female Supreme Court justice; argued six women's rights cases before the Supreme Court while working for the ACLU |
