| JUSTICE | FROM | TO |
| John McKinley | 6-28-1837* | 1-24-1843 |
| Peter Vivian Daniel | 1-25-1843 | 5-31-1860 |
| Samuel Freeman Miller | 7-21-1862 | 4-7-1867 |
| Stephen Johnson Field | 4-8-1867 | 12-1-1897 |
| David Josiah Brewer | 12-13-1897 | 2-20-1898 |
| Joseph McKenna | 2-21-1898 | 1-5-1925 |
| George Sutherland | 3-16-1925 | 1-17-1938 |
| Stanley Forman Reed | 2-7-1938 | 2-11-1940 |
| William Orville Douglas | 2-12-1940 | 11-12-1975 |
| Hugo Lafayette Black | 6-24-1957 | 10-13-1958 |
| John Marshall Harlan | 6-25-1963 | 6-26-1963 |
| William Hubbs Rehnquist | 11-17-1975 | 9-25-1986 |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | 9-26-1986 | 1-31-2006 |
| Anthony McLeod Kennedy | 2-1-2006 | 7-31-2018 |
| John Glover Roberts, Jr. | 8-1-2018 | 10-18-2018 |
| Elena Kagan | 10-19-2018 | present |
| *In an order dated March 10, 1837, President Martin Van Buren allotted William Smith, who had been nominated and confirmed for a seat on the Supreme Court, to the Ninth Circuit. When Smith declined to join the Court, Van Buren nominated McKinley in his stead, and on June 28, 1837, issued a new order allotting McKinley to the Ninth Circuit. | ||