How Many US Supreme Court Justices Were Born In Your State?

All 116 justices of the United States Supreme Court (1789 to present), grouped by the state in which they were born. States are ordered by the number of justices they have produced. Within each state, justices are listed in chronological order of their appointment to the Court.

New York (14 justices)

1. John Jay (1789-1795)
2. Brockholst Livingston (1807-1823)
3. Smith Thompson (1823-1843)
4. Samuel Nelson (1845-1872)
5. Joseph P. Bradley (1870-1892)
6. Ward Hunt (1873-1882)
7. Samuel Blatchford (1882-1893)
8. Rufus W. Peckham (1896-1909)
9. Charles Evans Hughes (1910-1916, 1930-1941)
10. Benjamin N. Cardozo (1932-1938)
11. Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1993-2020)
12. John Roberts (2005-present)
13. Sonia Sotomayor (2009-present)
14. Elena Kagan (2010-present)

Virginia (10 justices)

1. John Blair Jr. (1790-1795)
2. Bushrod Washington (1798-1829)
3. John Marshall (1801-1835)
4. Thomas Todd (1807-1826)
5. Robert Trimble (1826-1828)
6. Philip P. Barbour (1836-1841)
7. John McKinley (1838-1852)
8. Peter Vivian Daniel (1842-1860)
9. Noah Haynes Swayne (1862-1881)
10. Lewis F. Powell Jr. (1972-1987)

Note: Robert Trimble was born in Berkeley County, Virginia, in an area that is now part of West Virginia.

Massachusetts (9 justices)

1. William Cushing (1790-1810)
2. Joseph Story (1812-1845)
3. Benjamin Robbins Curtis (1851-1857)
4. Horace Gray (1882-1902)
5. Henry Billings Brown (1891-1906)
6. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1902-1932)
7. William Henry Moody (1906-1910)
8. Harold Hitz Burton (1945-1958)
9. David Souter (1990-2009)

Kentucky (8 justices)

1. Samuel Freeman Miller (1862-1890)
2. John Marshall Harlan (1877-1911)
3. Horace Harmon Lurton (1910-1914)
4. James Clark McReynolds (1914-1941)
5. Louis Brandeis (1916-1939)
6. Stanley Forman Reed (1938-1957)
7. Wiley Rutledge (1943-1949)
8. Fred M. Vinson (1946-1953)

Maryland (6 justices)

1. Thomas Johnson (1792-1793)
2. Samuel Chase (1796-1811)
3. Gabriel Duvall (1811-1835)
4. Roger Taney (1836-1864)
5. David Davis (1862-1877)
6. Thurgood Marshall (1967-1991)

Pennsylvania (6 justices, one disputed)

1. John Catron (1837-1865) (birthplace disputed; most sources say Pennsylvania, some say Virginia)
2. Robert Cooper Grier (1846-1870)
3. George Shiras Jr. (1892-1903)
4. Joseph McKenna (1898-1925)
5. Owen Roberts (1930-1945)
6. Robert H. Jackson (1941-1954)

Ohio (5 justices)

1. William Burnham Woods (1881-1887)
2. Stanley Matthews (1881-1889)
3. William R. Day (1903-1922)
4. John Hessin Clarke (1916-1922)
5. William Howard Taft (1921-1930)

Connecticut (5 justices)

1. Oliver Ellsworth (1796-1800)
2. Henry Baldwin (1830-1844)
3. Stephen Johnson Field (1863-1897)
4. William Strong (1870-1880)
5. Morrison Waite (1874-1888)

Georgia (5 justices)

1. James Moore Wayne (1835-1867)
2. John Archibald Campbell (1853-1861)
3. Lucius Q. C. Lamar (1888-1893)
4. Joseph Rucker Lamar (1911-1916)
5. Clarence Thomas (1991-present)

New Jersey (5 justices)

1. John McLean (1830-1861)
2. Mahlon Pitney (1912-1922)
3. William J. Brennan Jr. (1956-1990)
4. Antonin Scalia (1986-2016)
5. Samuel Alito (2006-present)

New Hampshire (4 justices)

1. Levi Woodbury (1845-1851)
2. Nathan Clifford (1858-1881)
3. Salmon P. Chase (1864-1873)
4. Harlan F. Stone (1925-1946)

Illinois (4 justices)

1. John Marshall Harlan II (1955-1971)
2. Arthur Goldberg (1962-1965)
3. Harry Blackmun (1970-1994)
4. John Paul Stevens (1975-2010)

South Carolina (3 justices)

1. John Rutledge (1790-1791, 1795)
2. William Johnson (1804-1834)
3. James F. Byrnes (1941-1942)

Tennessee (3 justices)

1. Howell Edmunds Jackson (1893-1895)
2. Edward Terry Sanford (1923-1930)
3. Abe Fortas (1965-1969)

California (3 justices)

1. Earl Warren (1953-1969)
2. Anthony Kennedy (1988-2018)
3. Stephen Breyer (1994-2022)

Minnesota (3 justices)

1. Pierce Butler (1923-1939)
2. William O. Douglas (1939-1975)
3. Warren E. Burger (1969-1986)

Texas (2 justices)

1. Tom C. Clark (1949-1967)
2. Sandra Day O’Connor (1981-2006)

Indiana (2 justices)

1. Willis Van Devanter (1911-1937)
2. Sherman Minton (1949-1956)

Michigan (2 justices)

1. Frank Murphy (1940-1949)
2. Potter Stewart (1958-1981)

Colorado (2 justices)

1. Byron White (1962-1993)
2. Neil Gorsuch (2017-present)

Louisiana (2 justices)

1. Edward Douglass White (1894-1921)
2. Amy Coney Barrett (2020-present)

North Carolina (1 justice)

1. Alfred Moore (1800-1804)

Maine (1 justice)

1. Melville Fuller (1888-1910)

Alabama (1 justice)

1. Hugo Black (1937-1971)

Kansas (1 justice)

1. Charles Evans Whittaker (1957-1962)

Wisconsin (1 justice)

1. William Rehnquist (1972-2005)

Washington, D.C. (2 justices)

1. Brett Kavanaugh (2018-present)
2. Ketanji Brown Jackson (2022-present)

Note: the District of Columbia is a federal district, not a state. Kavanaugh and Jackson are the only two justices born there.

Born outside the United States (6 justices)

1. James Wilson (1789-1798) (Scotland)
2. James Iredell (1790-1799) (England)
3. William Paterson (1793-1806) (Ireland)
4. David Josiah Brewer (1890-1910) (Smyrna, Ottoman Empire)
5. George Sutherland (1922-1938) (England)
6. Felix Frankfurter (1939-1962) (Vienna, Austria)

Covers all 116 justices from 1789 to the present. Justices who served twice (John Rutledge, Edward Douglass White, Charles Evans Hughes, Harlan F. Stone, William Rehnquist) are listed once. Several early justices were born before their birth state achieved statehood or before the Constitution took effect; the modern state containing the birthplace is used throughout, except Robert Trimble, listed under Virginia as it was at the time of his birth.