Supreme court justices. Gorsuch associate justice sonia sotomayor associate justice elena kagan associate justice brett m. From harvard law school in 1986. One chief justice and eight associate justices.
Samuel alito samuel alito supreme court deals blow to gop in dispute over ri absentee ballots states should pay attention to supreme. Article ii section 2 clause 2 of the constitution grants plenary power to the president of the united states to nominate. She received an ab.
Supreme court is currently comprised of nine justices who serve lifetime appointments after being confirmed by the us. Chief justices are denoted by italic text. From princeton in 1981 an m.
Elena kagan samuel alito. The honorable john g. Elena kagan associate justice was born in new york new york on april 28 1960.
The older justices are ginsburg 87. From oxford in 1983 and a jd. As you can see there is a 34 year age gap between justices neil gorsuch the youngest and ruth bader ginsburg the oldest who actually.
Ages of supreme court justices here are the current ages and political orientation of the united states supreme court justices and the implications of their retirement or death. The 1st united states congress provided the detailed organization of a federal judiciary through the judiciary act of 1789the supreme court the countrys highest judicial tribunal was to sit in the nations capital and would initially be composed of a chief justice and five associate justices. Associate justice neil m.
President barack obama nominated her as an associate justice of the supreme court on may 26 2009 and she assumed this role august 8 2009. Waite and melville w. Roberts jr is the 17th chief justice of the united states and there have been 102 associate justices in the courts history.
Here is some background on those currently serving on the. Nine justices make up the current supreme court. Ruth bader ginsburg anthony kennedy chief justice john roberts clarence thomas and stephen breyer.
The supreme court of the united states is the highest ranking judicial body in the united statesits membership as set by the judiciary act of 1869 consists of the chief justice of the united states and eight associate justices any six of whom would constitute a quorum.
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