Ryan Dones Justice System Timeline

Justice System Timeline

Period: Jan 1, 1900 to Dec 31, 2017

Justice System Timeline

58th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Dec 4, 1902

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. is appointed as the 58th Supreme Court Justice.

59th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Feb 23, 1903

William R. Day is appointed as the 59th Supreme Court Justice.

60th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Dec 12, 1906

William Henry Moody is appointed as the 60th Supreme Court Justice.

61st Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Dec 20, 1909

Horace Harmon Lurton is appointed as the 61st Supreme Court Justice.

Weems v. United States

May 2, 1910

Has to do with the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.

62nd Supreme Court Justice Appointed

May 2, 1910

Charles Evans Hughes is appointed as the 62nd Supreme Court Justice.

9th Chief Justice of the United States

Dec 12, 1910

Edward Douglass White was the 9th Chief Justice of the US

63rd Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Dec 15, 1910

Willis Van Devanter is appointed as the 63rd Supreme Court Justice

64th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Dec 15, 1910

Joseph Rucker Lamar is appointed as the 64th Supreme Court Justice

65th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Mar 12, 1912

Mahlon Pitney is appointed as the 65th Supreme Court Justice.

66th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Aug 29, 1914

James Clark McReynolds is appointed as the 66th Supreme Court Justice.

67th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Jun 1, 1916

Louis Brandeis is appointed as the 67th Supreme Court Justice.

68th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Jul 24, 1916

John Hessin Clarke is appointed as the 68th Supreme Court Justice.

69th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Jun 30, 1921

William Howard Taft is appointed as the 69th Supreme Court Justice.

70th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Sep 5, 1922

George Sutherland is appointed as the 70th Supreme Court Justice.

71st Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Dec 21, 1922

Pierce Butler is appointed as the 71st Supreme Court Justice.

72nd Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Jan 29, 1923

Edward Terry Sanford is appointed as the 72nd Supreme Court Justice.

73rd Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Feb 5, 1925

Harlan F. Stone is appointed as the 73rd Supreme Court Justice.

11th Chief Justice of the United States

Feb 13, 1930

Charles Evans Hughes was the 11th Chief Justice of the United States and was appointed as the 62nd Supreme Court Justice.

74th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

May 20, 1930

Owen Josephus Roberts is appointed as the 74th Supreme Court Justice.

75th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Feb 24, 1932

Benjamin N. Cardozo is appointed as the 75th Supreme Court Justice.

76th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Aug 19, 1937

Hugo Black is appointed as the 76th Supreme Court Justice.

New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery

1938

Persons having a direct or indirect interest in terms and conditions of employment have the liberty to advertise and disseminate facts and information with respect to terms and conditions of employment, and peacefully to persuade others to concur in their views respecting an employer's practices.

77th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Jan 25, 1938

Stanley Forman Reed is appointed as the 77th Supreme Court Justice.

78th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Jan 17, 1939

Felix Frankfurter is appointed as the 78th Supreme Court Justice.

79th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Apr 4, 1939

William O. Douglas is appointed as the 79th Supreme Court Justice.

80th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Jan 16, 1940

Frank Murphy is appointed as the 80th Supreme Court Justice.

81st Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Jun 12, 1941

James F. Byrnes is appointed as the 81st Supreme Court Justice.

12th Chief Justice of the United States

Jun 27, 1941

Harlan F. Stone was the 73rd Supreme Court Justice and the 12th Chief Justice.

82nd Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Jul 7, 1941

Robert H. Jackson is appointed as the 82nd Supreme Court Justice.

83rd Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Feb 8, 1943

Wiley Blount Rutledge is appointed as the 83rd Supreme Court Justice.

Smith v. Allwright

1944

Primary elections must be open to voters of all races.

Korematsu v. United States

1944

President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 is constitutional; therefore, American citizens of Japanese descent can be interned and deprived of their basic constitutional rights. This case featured the first application of strict scrutiny to racial discrimination by the government.

84th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Sep 19, 1945

Harold Hitz Burton is appointed as the 84th Supreme Court Justice.

Morgan v. Virginia

1946

A Virginia law that enforces segregation on interstate buses is unconstitutional.

85th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Jun 20, 1946

Fred M. Vinson is appointed as the 85th Supreme Court Justice.

Shelley v. Kraemer

1948

Courts may not enforce racial covenants on real estate.

86th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Aug 18, 1949

Tom C. Clark is appointed as the 86th Supreme Court Justice.

87th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Oct 4, 1949

Sherman Minton is appointed as the 87th Supreme Court Justice.

Henderson v. United States

1950

The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 makes it unlawful for a railroad that engages in interstate commerce to subject any particular person to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage in any respect whatsoever.

Hernandez v. Texas

1954

Mexican Americans and all other racial and national groups in the United States have equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The protection of the 14th Amendment covers any racial, national and ethnic groups of the United States for which discrimination can be proved.

88th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Mar 1, 1954

Earl Warren is appointed as the 88th Supreme Court Justice.

89th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Mar 16, 1955

John Marshall Harlan II is appointed as the 80th Supreme Court Justice.

90th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Mar 19, 1957

William J. Brennan is appointed as the 90th Supreme Court Justice.

91st Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Mar 19, 1957

Charles Evans Whittaker is appointed as the 91st Supreme Court Justice.

92nd Supreme Court Justice Appointed

May 5, 1959

Potter Stewart is appointed as the 92nd Supreme Court Justice.

93rd Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Apr 11, 1962

Byron White is appointed as the 93rd Supreme Court Justice.

94th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Sep 25, 1962

Arthur Goldberg is appointed as the 94th Supreme Court Justice.

95th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Aug 11, 1965

Abe Fortas is appointed as the 95th Supreme Court Justice.

96th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Aug 30, 1967

Thurgood Marshall is appointed as the 96th Supreme Court Justice.

97th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Jun 9, 1969

Warren E. Burger is appointed as the 97th Supreme Court Justice.

98th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

May 12, 1970

Harry Blackmun is appointed as the 98th Supreme Court Justice.

99th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Dec 6, 1971

Lewis F. Powell Jr. is appointed as the 99th Supreme Court Justice.

100th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Dec 10, 1971

William Rehnquist is appointed as the 100th Supreme Court Justice.

101st Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Dec 17, 1975

John Paul Stevens is appointed as the 101st Supreme Court Justice.

102nd Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Sep 21, 1981

Sandra Day O'Connor is appointed as the 102nd Supreme Court Justice.

16th Chief Justice of the United States

Sep 17, 1986

William Rehnquist was the 100th Supreme Court Justice and then was moved to Chief Justice of the US.

103rd Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Sep 17, 1986

Antonin Scalia is appointed as the 103rd Supreme Court Justice.

104th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Feb 3, 1988

Anthony Kennedy is appointed as the 104th Supreme Court Justice.

105th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Oct 2, 1990

David Souter is appointed as the 105th Supreme Court Justice.

106th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Oct 15, 1991

Clarence Thomas is appointed as the 106th Supreme Court Justice.

107th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Aug 3, 1993

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is appointed as the 107th Supreme Court Justice.

108th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Jul 29, 1994

Stephen Breyer is appointed as the 108th Supreme Court Justice.

109th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Sep 29, 2005

John Roberts is appointed as the 109th Supreme Court Justice.

110th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Jan 31, 2006

Samuel Alito is appointed as the 110th Supreme Court Justice.

111th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Aug 6, 2009

Sonia Sotomayor is appointed as the 111th Supreme Court Justice.

112th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Aug 5, 2010

Elena Kagan is appointed as the 112th Supreme Court Justice.

113th Supreme Court Justice Appointed

Apr 7, 2017

Neil Gorsuch is appointed as the 113th Supreme Court Justice.