Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

There are currently eight associate justices on the Supreme Court. The justices, ordered by seniority, are: File:Clarence Thomas official SCOTUS portrait.jpg|Clarence Thomas,since October 23, 1991 File:010 alito.jpg|Samuel Alito,since January 31, 2006 File:Sonia Sotomayor in SCOTUS robe.jpg|Sonia Sotomayor,since August 8, 2009 File:Elena Kagan Official SCOTUS Portrait (2013).jpg|Elena Kagan,since August 7, 2010 File:Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch Official Portrait.jpg|Neil Gorsuch,since April 10, 2017 File:Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh Official Portrait (full length).jpg|Brett Kavanaugh,since October 6, 2018 File:Justice Amy Coney Barrett (cropped).jpg|Amy Coney Barrett,since October 27, 2020 File:Ketanji Brown Jackson official SCOTUS portrait.jpg|alt=|Ketanji Brown Jackson,since June 30, 2022 ==Retired associate justices==

An associate justice who leaves the Supreme Court after attaining the age and meeting the service requirements prescribed by federal statute () may retire rather than resign. After retirement, they keep their title, and by custom may also keep a set of chambers in the Supreme Court building, and employ law clerks. The names of retired associate justices continue to appear alongside those of the active justices in the bound volumes of Supreme Court decisions. Federal statute () provides that retired Supreme Court justices may serve—if designated and assigned by the chief justice—on panels of the U.S. courts of appeals, or on the U.S. district courts. Retired justices are not, however, authorized to take part in the consideration or decision of any cases before the Supreme Court (unlike other retired federal judges who may be permitted to do so in their former courts); neither are they known or designated as a "senior judge". When, after his retirement, William O. Douglas attempted to take a more active role than was customary, maintaining that it was his prerogative to do so because of his senior status, he was rebuffed by Chief Justice Warren Burger and admonished by the whole Court. There are currently two living retired associate justices: Anthony Kennedy, retired July 31, 2018, and Stephen Breyer, retired June 30, 2022. ==List of associate justices==

Since the Supreme Court was established in 1789, the following 104 persons have served as an associate justice: ==Notes==