High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! There have been 112 men and women who have served on the United States Supreme Court. There are presently nine seats on the bench, but initially there were only six. Congress has changed this number several times over the years: laws were passed in the early 19th century to reduce the number to five and in the early 1860s there were ten sitting justices. Aside from periodic vacancies due to deaths, there have been nine justices since 1870. The graphic below is a timeline depicting the progression of the justices in the United States Supreme Court. Information regarding their seat number, predecessors, successors and fellow justices, as well as their tenure on the court can be gleaned from the timeline. Additionally, the progression of presidents (with the number of justices they nominated) is shown at the top of the timeline to give a more detailed historical context. Three presidents (Taft, F. Roosevelt, Reagan), in addition to successfully...

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