Supreme Court Facts
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
- Youngest justice appointed: Joseph Story (age 32)
- Oldest justice appointed: Horace Lurton (age 65)
- Oldest justice to serve: Oliver Wendell Holmes (retired at age 90)
- Shortest term as chief justice: John Rutledge (4 months, 3 days chief justice)
- Shortest time in the court: Thomas Johnson (5 months, 10 days associate justice)
- Longest term: William O. Douglas (36 years, 209 days)
- First Catholic justice: Roger B. Taney
- First Jewish justice: Louis Brandeis
- First African-American justice: Thurgood Marshall
- First woman justice: Sandra Day O'Connor
- President to appoint the most justices: George Washington (11)
- President to appoint the most justices in the 20th century: Franklin Roosevelt (9)
- Presidents to appoint current justices: Ford (Stevens); Reagan (Scalia, Kennedy); G.H.W. Bush (Souter, Thomas); Clinton (Ginsburg, Breyer); G. W. Bush (Roberts, Alito)
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