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A justice on the Supreme Court of the United States has no tenure. It is a lifetime appointment. The justice may, however, choose to retire at any time.
According to the most recent statistics, the average tenure of a US Supreme Court justice is currently 25.5 years.
Justice William O. Douglas was 41 years old when President Roosevelt appointed him to the US Supreme Court in April 1939. Douglas served the longest tenure of any other justice in the Court's history, 36 years, 209 days, and was just one month past his 77th birthday when he retired.
No, John Marshall was never impeached; he served as Chief Justice on the Supreme Court from 1801 until 1835, a tenure of 34 years.The only Supreme Court justice ever to be impeached was Samuel Chase, in 1804. Chase served on the Marshall Court until 1811. He was later acquitted during his Senate trial.For more information on Justice Chase's impeachment, see Related Questions, below.
Mrs. Janaki Ramachandran, Tamilnadu, 13 days
Felix Frankfurter was an American lawyer and Supreme Court Justice who served from 1939 to 1962. He was known for his liberal and progressive legal views, and played a significant role in shaping constitutional law during his tenure on the Court.
The Judicial Branch in general, and the US Supreme Court, in particular, were perceived as weak.
Justice S.H.Kapadia Justice K G Balakrishnan, from Keral is a present Chief Justice of Supreme Court Of India .He is the first-ever Dalit to occupy the coveted post after replacing Chief Justice Y K Sabharwal who retired on January 14, 2007. Hon'ble Balakrishnan, is 37th Chief Justice, and has a tenure of three years and four months, till May 12, 2010, the day he retires. Chief Justice Sabharwal had a tenure of 14 months while his predecessor Justice R C Lahoti had a 17 month stint.
Yes. John Marshal Harlan I was nominated to the US Supreme Court by President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877 and remained on the bench until his death in 1911, a tenure just short of 34 years. John Marshall Harlan II was nominated to the US Supreme Court by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1955 and remained on the Court until his retirement in 1971, a tenure of 16 years.
According to a 2008 report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the average tenure of federal court judges below the US Supreme Court is approximately 20-24 years (no fixed average available); the average tenure for US Supreme Court justices was approximately 25.5 years, but has been as high as 26.1 years. In 1970, the average tenure of a Supreme Court justice was around 15 years.
The oldest man at the time he was appointed Chief Justice was Harlan Fiske Stone, who was elevated from Associate Justice in July 1941 at the age of 68. Stone had served on the Court since March 1925. He was the Senior Associate Justice at the time of his promotion.Stone was also the Chief Justice with the shortest tenure, serving fewer than five years before dying of a stroke in April 1946, at the age of 73. Stone was on the bench delivering his dissenting opinion in Girouard v. United States, 328 US 61 (1946), when struck by a massive cerebral hemorrhage, and has the distinction of being the only Supreme Court justice to die in open court.For more information, see Related Questions, below.