There have been 17 Chief Justices, and 94 Associate Justices.
Chief Justices, Names and Details
There is only one Chief Justice at any point in time; the other eight serving with him or her are called Associate Justices. There have been 17 Chief Justices (whether William Cushing held the position or not is a matter of debate; he would be the third in line, making the total 18).
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Cushing's role on the US Supreme Court is not a matter of debate. President Washington nominated William Cushing as Chief Justice after the Senate rejected John Rutledge's recess appointment in December 1795. The Senate approved Cushing in January 1796, but he declined the elevation and never became Chief Justice. He continued serving as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court until his death in September 1810.
Oliver Ellsworth subsequently became third Chief Justice of the United States.
As of January 2010, there have been a total of 111 justices on the US Supreme Court since the Court's inception in 1789.
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There have been 17 Chief Justices since 1789, and 94 Associate Justices.
Chief Justices, Names and Details
President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the US Supreme Court in 1953, and he lead the Court until his retirement in 1969. Warren was succeeded by Nixon appointee Chief Justice Warren Burger in 1969.
There have been 17 Chief Justices in the history of the US Supreme Court, all of them men.
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John G. Roberts, Jr.
112, counting those currently serving.
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9 justices and a Chief Justice.
Close. The US Supreme Court seats one Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices. All US Supreme Court judges are referred to as "justices."
There are eight Associate Justices, in addition to the Chief Justice, on the US Supreme Court.
9 justices and a Chief Justice.
9 justices and a Chief Justice.
The Supreme Court of Canada is composed of nine Justices, a Chief Justice and eight Puisne Justices.
The Chief Justice and four Associate Justices.
Federal (US) Supreme Court judges are called "justices." The Supreme Court of the United States has one Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices, for a total of nine justices. State supreme court vary in the number of judges seated on their highest appellate court, and are also inconsistent with titles. Some states call them "judges," while others refer to them as "justices."
Nine Justices Nine Justices make up the current Supreme Court: one Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices. There have been 103 Associate Justices in the Court's history.
There is the Chief Justice and six Associate Justices.
There are nine justices on the Supreme Court, including the Chief Justice.