[The Mayor]

Should be Scalia... Not sure what to think of this.

[quantim]

Should be Scalia... Not sure what to think of this.

Me either - but I'll venture a guess he is looking at retiring in a couple\few years or so and can't make the commitment?

[AlGone2001]

"Should be Scalia... Not sure what to think of this."

 

CHIEF JUSTICES OF THE US SUPREME COURT

NAME	STATE	APPOINTED BY PRESIDENT	DATE OF JUDICIAL OATH AS CHIEF	DATE SERVICE TERMINATED	SERVICE AS ASSOCIATE
John Jay	New York	George Washington	10-19-1789	6-29-1795	NA
John Rutledge	South Carolina	George Washington	8-12-1795	10-15-1795	2-15-1790 to 3-5-1791
Oliver Ellsworth	Connecticut	George Washington	3-8-1796	10-15-1800	NA
John Marshall	Virginia	John Adams	2-4-1801	7-6-1835	NA
Robert Brook Taney	Maryland	Andrew Jackson	3-28-1836	10-12-1864	NA
Salmon Portland Chase	Ohio	Abraham Lincoln	10-15-1864	5-7-1873	NA
Morrison Remick Waite	Ohio	Ulysses S. Grant	3-4-1874	3-23-1888	NA
Melville Weston Fuller	Illinois	Grover Cleveland	10-8-1888	7-4-1910	NA
Edward Douglass White	Louisiana	William Taft	12-19-1910	5-19-1921	3-12-1894 to 12-18-1910
William Howard Taft	Connecticut	Warren Harding	7-11-1921	2-3-1930	NA
Charles Evans Hughes	New York	Herbert Hoover	2-24-1930	6-30-1941	10-10-1910 to 6-10-1916
Harlan Fiske Stone	New York	Franklin D. Roosevelt	7-3-1941	4-22-1946	3-2-1925 to 7-2-1941
Fred Moore Vinson	Kentucky	Harry Truman	9-24-1946	9-8-1953	NA
Earl Warren	California	Dwight D. Eisenhower	10-5-1953	6-23-1969	NA
Earl Warren Burger	Virginia	Richard Nixon	6-23-1969	9-26-1986	NA
William Rehnquist	Virginia	Ronald Reagan	9-26-1986	9-3-2005	1-7-1972 to 9-26-1986
?	?	George W. Bush

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INTERESTING POINTS

1. To date, there have been 16 Chief Justices of the US Supreme Court.
2. Of the 16 Chief Justices, 11 were nominated directly to the position from outside the court.
3. Of the 16 Chief Justices, 5 had previously been associate justices on the bench.
4. John Rutledge had been an associate and left the court with just over 1 year of service, only to return as the 2nd Chief Justice.
5. Charles Evans Hughes had served almost six years on the bench as an associate (1910-16), only to leave the bench and return about 14 years later as Chief Justice.
6. Chief Justices Edward Douglass White, Harlan Fiske Stone, & William Rehnquist are the only 3 chiefs to ever be elevated directly from acting Associate Justice to the position of Chief Justice.
7. Only 3 of the last 8 Chief Justices were appointed while actively serving as an Associate Justice.
8. President George Washington is the only president to appoint more than one Chief Justice, and he appointed 3.
9. It was not until Salmon P. Chase took the oath as Chief Justice that a chief was placed in his role within three days of the vacancy.  He was the 6th Chief Justice.
10. Approximately 55 years after Chase became Chief Justice, Charles Evans Hughes was installed as Chief Justice within 30 days of the vacancy.  He was the 11th Chief Justice.  No justice between them took office in less than 30 days of a vacancy.
11. The last two Chief Justices each took the oath as Chief Justice on the day a vacancy occurred in the Chief Justices slot.
12. The last three openings as Chief Justice were filled in less than 30 days.
13. Only John Marshall served more than 30 years as Chief Justice.  He serve a little over 34 years.  His period of serve spanned a period of six US Presidents.
14. Robert Brook Taney and Melville Weston Fuller are the only other men to serve over 20 years as Chief Justice.  Taney served more than 28 years and Fuller served over 21 years. 
15. Chief Justice Taney's period of service spanned a period of 10 US Presidents.
16. John Rutledge served two times on the bench:  once as an associate and once as the Chief Justice.  His total time on the court was about 15 months.
17. Chief Justice Taft is the only Chief Justice to have served previously as President of the United States.  He served one term as president (1909-13) and took his place on the bench as Chief Justice just 8 years after his presidency ended.  He replaced Chief Justice Edward Douglass White, who he nominated to the same position.
18. The last Chief Justice to die (before Rehnquist) was Fred Vinson, who died in 1953.