STEPHEN BREYER
“People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost.”
Associate Justice
Appointed by: Bill Clinton
Sworn in: August 3, 1994
Preceded by: Harry Blackmun
Succeeded by: Ketanji Brown Jackson
1994 — 2022
Credit: RON SACHS/CNP/GETTY IMAGES
Time on the Court
What the Court looked like when Justice Breyer served.
1994
2010
2022
2010 — Present
Justice Kagan
2018 — Present
Justice Kavanaugh
1972 — 2005
Justice Thomas
1990 — 2009
Justice Souter
Chief Justice Rehnquist
1981 — 2005
Justice Stevens
1972 — 1986
Justice Gorsuch
1986 — 2016
1991 — Present
2009 — Present
Justice O’Connor
1975 — 2010
1994 — 2022
Justice Sotomayor
Justice Scalia
1988 — 2018
Justice Kennedy
1993 — 2020
2020 — Present
Justice Barrett
Justice Ginsburg
Justice Breyer
2005 — Present
Chief Justice Roberts
2006 — Present
Justice Alito
2002
2017
