9 Current Supreme Court Justices

Sonia Sotomayor

Nominated by President: Barack Obama;took her seat in August 2009. She was nominated by President H.W. Bush to the U.S. District Court; Southern District of New York; and served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Received education at Princeton University and Yale Law School.

Elena Kagan

Nominated by President: Barack Obama;took her seat in August 2010. She served as Associate Counsel to President Clinton; Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy; Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council; and 45th Solicitor General for the U.S. Received education at Princeton University, Worchester College, Oxford University, and Harvard Law School.

Clarence Thomas

Nominated by President: Bush;took his seat in October 1991. He served as Assistant Attorney General of Missouri; Legislative Assistant to Sen. John Danforth; Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights; U.S. Department of Education; Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; and was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Received his education at Holy Cross College and Yale Law School.

Stephen G. Breyer

Nominated by President: Clinton; took his seat in August 1994. He served the Senate Judiciary Committee; the U.S. Sentencing Commission, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit; and the Judicial Conference of the United States. Received education at Stanford University, Magdalen College, Oxford, and Harvard Law School.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Nominated by President: Clinton;took her seat in August 1993. She served the American Civil Liberties Union General Counsel; the National Board of Directors and was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Received education at Cornell University, Harvard Law School, and Columbia Law School. Oldest member of the supreme court.

Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr

Nominated by President: George W. Bush;took his seat in January 2006. He served as Assistant to the Solicitor General; U.S. Department of Justice; Deputy Assistant Attorney General; U.S. Department of Justice; U.S. Attorney; District of New Jersey and was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Received eduction at Princeton University and Yale Law School.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.

Nominated by President: George W. Bush;took his seat in September 2005. He previously served as Special Assistant to the Attorney General; Associate Counsel to President Ronald Reagan; Principal Deputy Solicitor General for the U.S. Department of Justice and Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Received his education at Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

Antonin Scalia

Nominated by President: Reagan; took seat in September 1986. He served as Chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States; Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Council and Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Received education at Georgetown University, the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and Harvard University.

Anthony M. Kennedy

Nominated by President: Reagan;took his seat in February 1988. He served at the Federal Judicial Center; the Judicial Conference of the United States; the Committee on Pacific Territories; and was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit in 1975. Received his education at Stanford University, London School of Economics and Harvard Law School.