Historical List of Supreme Court Justices

Historian's notes

 

justice assumed office additional dates
Daniel D. McCaffery 2024 2024-
P. Kevin Brobson 2022 2022-
Sallie Updyke Mundy 2018 2016-
David N. Wecht 2016 2016-
Kevin M. Dougherty    2016 2016-
Christine Donohue 2016 2016-
Correale F. Stevens 2013 2013-16
Joan Orie Melvin 2010 2010-13
Jane Cutler Greenspan 2008 2008-10
Seamus P. McCaffery 2008 2008-14
Debra Todd 2008 2008-; CJ 2022-
James J. Fitzgerald, III 2007 2007-08
Cynthia A. Baldwin 2006 2006-08
Max Baer 2004 2004-2022; CJ, 2021-22
William H. Lamb 2003 2003-04
J. Michael Eakin 2002 2002-16
Thomas G. Saylor 1998 1998-2021; CJ, 2015-21
Sandra Schultz Newman 1996 1996-2006
Russell M. Nigro 1996 1996-2006
Ronald D. Castille 1994 1994-2014; CJ, 2008-14
Frank J. Montemuro, Jr. 1992 1992-1994
Ralph J. Cappy 1990 1990-2008; CJ, 2003-08
Juanita Kidd Stout 1988 1988-89
Nicholas P. Papadakos 1984 1984-95
Stephen A. Zappala 1983 1983-2002; CJ, 2002
James T. McDermott 1982 1982-92
William D. Hutchinson 1982 1982-87
Roy Wilkinson, Jr. 1981 1981-82
Bruce W. Kauffman 1980 1980-82
John P. Flaherty, Jr. 1979 1979-2001; CJ 1996-2001
Rolf Larsen 1978 1978-2001
Israel Packel 1977 1977
Louis L. Manderino 1972 1972-79
Robert N.C. Nix, Jr. 1972 1972-96; CJ 1984-96
Alexander F. Barbieri 1971 1971-72
Thomas W. Pomeroy, Jr. 1968 1968-78
Samuel J. Roberts 1963 1963-84; CJ, 1983-84
Earl S. Keim 1962 1962-63
Henry X. O'Brien 1962 1962-83; CJ, 1980-83
Anne X. Alpern 1961 1961-62
Michael J. Eagen 1960 1930-80; CJ, 1977-80
Curtis Bok 1958 1959-62
Thomas D. McBride 1958 1958-60
Herbert B. Cohen 1957 1957-70
Benjamin R. Jones 1957 1957-77; CJ, 1972-77
John C. Arnold 1953 1953-58
Michael A. Musmanno 1952 1952-68
Thomas McKeen Chidsey 1950 1950-58
Grover C. Ladner 1950 1950-52
John C. Bell, Jr. 1950 1949-72; CJ, 1961-72
Charles Alvin Jones 1945 1945-61; CJ, 1956-61
Howard W. Hughes 1943 1943-45
Allen M. Stearne 1942 1942-56
William M. Parker 1940 1941-43
Marion D. Patterson 1940 1940-50
Horace Stern 1936 1936-56; CJ, 1952-56
H. Edgar Barnes 1935 1935-40
William B. Linn 1932 1932-50
James B. Drew 1931 1931-52; CJ, 1950-52
George W. Maxey 1930 1930-50; CJ, 1943-50
Sylvester B. Sadler 1921 1921-31
William I. Schaffer 1920 1920-43; CJ, 1940-43
John W. Kephart 1919 1919-40; CJ, 1936-40
Edward J. Fox 1918 1918-19
Alexander Simpson, Jr. 1918 1918-35
Emory A. Walling 1915 1916-31
Robert S. Frazer 1915 1915-16; CJ, 1930-36
Robert von Moschzisker 1910 1910-30; CJ, 1921-30
John Stewart 1905 1905-20
John P. Elkin 1905 1905-15
Stephen Leslie Mestrezat 1900 1899-1918
Jacob Hay Brown 1900 1899-1921; CJ, 1915-21
David Newlin Fell 1893 1983-1914; CJ, 1910-15
Samuel Gustine Thompson 1893 1896-94, 1903-05
John Dean 1892 1892-1905
Christopher Heydrick 1891 1891-93
James T. Mitchell 1889 1888-1910; 1903-10
J. Brewster McCollum 1889 1888-1903; CJ, 1900-03
Alfred Hand 1888 1888-89
Silas M. Clark 1883 1882-91
Henry Green 1879 1879-1900; CJ, 1900
John Trunkey 1878 1877-78
James P. Sterrett 1877 1877-78; 1878-1900; CJ, 1893-1900
Warren J. Woodward 1875 1875-79
Edward M. Paxson 1875 1875-93; CJ, 1889-93
Isaac G. Gordon 1873 1873-88; CJ, 1887-89
Ulysses Mercur 1882 1872-87; CJ, 1883-87
Henry W. Williams 1887 1868-77; 1887-99
George Sharswood 1867 1867-83; CJ, 1879-83
Daniel Agnew 1863 1858-79; CJ, 1873-79
John M. Read 1858 1858-73; CJ, 1872-73
Gaylord Church 1858 1858
William P. Potter 1858 1900-18
William A. Porter 1858 1858
William Strong 1857 1857-68
James Thompson 1857 1857-72, CJ, 1867-72
James Armstrong 1857 1857
John C. Knox 1853 1853-57
George W. Woodward 1852 1852-67; CJ, 1863-67
Walter H. Lowrie 1851 1851-63; CJ, 1857-63
Ellis Lewis 1851 1851-57; CJ, 1854-57
Jeremiah S. Black 1851 1851-57; CJ, 1851-54
George Chambers 1851 1851
Thomas S. Bell 1846 1846-51
Richard Coulter 1846 1846-52
Thomas Burnside 1845 1845-51
Thomas Sergeant 1834 1834-46
John Kennedy 1830 1830-46
John Ross 1830 1830-34
Frederick Smith 1828 1828-30
John Tod 1827 1872-30
Charles Huston 1826 1826-45
Moulton Cropper Rogers 1826 1826-51
Thomas Duncan 1817 1817-27
John Bannister Gibson 1816 1816-53; CJ, 1827-51
William Tilghman 1806 CJ; 1806-27
Hugh Henry Brackenridge 1799 1799-1816
Thomas Smith 1794 1794-1809
William Bradford, Jr. 1791 1791-94
Jasper Yeates 1791 1791-1817
Edward Shippen IV 1791 1791-1805; CJ 1799-1805
Jacob Rush 1784 1784-91
George Bryan 1780 1780-91
John Evans 1777 1777-83
William Augustus Atlee 1777 1777-91
Thomas McKean 1777 CJ, 1777-99
John Morton 1774 1774-76
Benjamin Chew 1774 CJ, 1774-76
Thomas Willing 1767 1767-76
John Lawrence 1767 1767-74
Alexander Steadman 1764 1764-67
William Coleman 1758 1758-68
Caleb Cowpland 1750 1750-57
Lawrence Growdon 1750 1750-64
William Allen 1750 CJ, 1750-74
William Till 1743 1743-50
John Kinsey 1743 CJ, 1743-50
Thomas Griffitts 1739 1739-43
Thomas Graeme 1731 1731-43, 1739-43, 1743-50
James Logan 1731 CJ, 1731-39
Jeremiah Langhorne 1726 1726-36, 1737-39; acting CJ, 1739-42
David Lloyd 1717 CJ, 1717-31
Robert Assheton 1716 1716-17, 1722-24, 1724-26
George Roach 1715 1715-16
Jonathan Dickinson 1711 1711-12, 1715-17
Richard Hill 1711 1711, 1717-18, 1720, 1722, 1726-27, 1729
Roger Mompesson 1706 CJ, 1706-07
Willliam Trent 1704 1704, 1706, 1715, 1718, 1720
Jasper Yeates 1704 1704-05, 1706-07, 1709, 1717-20
Samuel Finney 1702 1702, 1704-05, 1706-09, 1711
Thomas Masters 1701 1701-03
Robert French 1701 1701
John Guest 1701 1701-06; CJ, 1701-03, 1705-06
Caleb Pusey 1699 1699-1701
William Biles 1699 1699-1701
Cornelius Empson 1698 1698-1701
Edward Shippen 1695 1695, 1699, 1701-03
Anthony Morris 1694 1694
William Salway 1693 1693-94
Andrew Robeson 1693 CJ, 1693-94
Edward Blake 1690 1690, 1693-94
Thomas Wynne 1690 1690-92
Joseph Growdon 1750 1690-91, 1693, 1698, 1701, 1705-06; CJ, 1707, 1709, 1711-15
James Harrison 1686 1686
John Simcock 1686 1686-90
John Cann 1686 1686, 1693-94
Arthur Cook 1686 1686-88, 1690-91, 1693; CJ, 1686, 1690
James Claypoole 1685 1685
William Clark 1684 1686, 1690, 1693-94, 1700-03
John Eckley 1684 1684-85
Robert Turner 1684 1684-85
William Wood 1684 1684-85
Nicholas More 1684 CJ, 1684-85