President Ronald Reagan nominated senior Justice Antonin Scalia to the US Supreme Court in 1986. Justice Scalia will have served 25 years on September 26, 2011.
President George HW Bush nominated Justice Clarence Thomas to the US Supreme Court in 1991.
Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor as associate justice of the Supreme Court in 2009.
President Ford nominated Justice John Paul Stevens to the US Supreme Court in 1975. Justice Stevens retired in June 2009 and was succeeded by Justice Sotomayor.
The senate
Jimmy Carter was the only full-term president who did not have the opportunity to appoint a supreme court justice.
For life
President John Adams nominated Chief Justice John Marshall to the US Supreme Court in February 1801. He presided over the Court until his death in 1835.
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There are no explicit requirements in the U.S. Constitution for a person to be nominated to become a Supreme Court justice. No age, education, job experience, or citizenship rules exist. In fact, according to the Constitution, a Supreme Court justice does not need to even have a law degree.
(The person who has been serving the longest is considered the chief justice of the court.)
Sonia Sotomeyer is the most recent supreme court justice nominated by the president and confirmed by congress.
US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens' official title is "Senior Associate Justice," meaning he is the associate justice with the longest tenure on the Court. Stevens was nominated by President Gerald Ford, and commissioned in 1975, more than 34 years ago.