Supreme Court of the United States:
Members and Their Backgrounds
Chief Justice of the
United States
Birth Home State Law School President Appt. Prior Experience
John G. Roberts, Jr.
Associate Justices
1955 New York Harvard GW Bush 2005 Federal Appeals Judge
Clarence N. Thomas 1948 Georgia Yale Bush 1991 Federal Appeals Judge
Samuel A. Alito, Jr. 1950 New Jersey Yale GW Bush 2006 Federal Appeals Judge
Sonia Maria Sotomayor 1954 New York Yale Obama 2009 Federal Appeals Judge
Elena Kagan 1960 New York Harvard Obama 2010 Solicitor General of the United States
Neil M. Gorsuch 1967 Colorado Harvard Trump 2017 Federal Appeals Judge
Brett M. Kavanaugh 1965 Washington, DC Yale Trump 2018 Federal Appeals Judge
Amy Coney Barrett 1972 Indiana Notre Dame Trump 2020 Federal Appeals Judge
Ketanji Brown Jackson 1970 Washington, DC Harvard Biden 2022 Federal Appeals Judge