President Ronald Reagan appointed Justice O'Connor to the US Supreme Court in 1981, during his first term of office. She retired from the Court in 2006, after serving during Presidents George HW Bush, Bill Clinton, and first George W. Bush administrations.
Jimmy Carter was the only full-term president who did not have the opportunity to appoint a supreme court justice.
The first (and so far only) US President to have also served as a Justice of the Supreme Court was William Howard Taft, who was appointed Chief Justice by Warren Harding.
William Howard Taft
Andrew Jackson was a justice of the Tennessee Superior Court before he was President. William Howard Taft was a federal circuit judge before he was president and was appointe to the US Supreme Court after the presidency.
William Howard Taft was the only one to do this.
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Jimmy Carter, who was in office from 1977-1981, never had an opportunity to nominate a US Supreme Court justice.
After being appointed by President Warren G. Harding, former President William Howard Taft served as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1921-1930.
William Howard Taft served as the 27th President of the United States (1909-1913) and as the tenth Chief Justice of the United States (1921-1930).
Jimmy Carter did not have the opportunity to nominate anyone for the supreme court,
None. William Howard Taft served both as President and Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, but he was President first, from 1909-1913. President Warren G. Harding later nominated Taft as Chief Justice of the United States (Supreme Court), where he served from 1921-1930.Charles Evans Hughes resigned from the Supreme Court to run for President in 1916, but he was not Chief Justice and he was not elected President. He later returned to the supreme court as the Chief Justice.For more information, see Related Questions, below.
William Howard Taft was US President from 1909-1913, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1921-1930.