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Abe Fortas
Abe Fortas served as a Supreme Court justice from 1965 to 1969. Appointed by President Johnson, he expanded students' rights before resigning over foundation payments.
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Benjamin N. Cardozo (1870–1938), American jurist, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals 1926–1932 and U.S. Supreme Court justice 1932–1938; author of MacPherson, Palsgraf, and The Nature of the Judicial Process.
Byron White
Byron "Whizzer" White (1917–2002), NFL rushing leader and Rhodes Scholar, was a Kennedy-appointed U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice 1962–1993 known for judicial restraint and dissents in Miranda and Roe.
Felix Frankfurter
Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965), Vienna-born American jurist and Harvard professor, was an FDR-appointed Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1939–1962, known for judicial restraint, founding the ACLU, and clashing with the Warren Court.
Harry Blackmun
Harry Andrew Blackmun (1908-1999) was a U.S. Supreme Court associate justice 1970-1994, Nixon appointee, former Mayo Clinic counsel, author of Roe v. Wade, known for his shift from conservative to liberal jurisprudence.
Hugo Black
Hugo LaFayette Black (1886-1971), Alabama senator and FDR's first Supreme Court appointee (1937), ex-Klansman, total-incorporation advocate, First Amendment absolutist, author of Korematsu, Everson, Engel, Gideon, and Wesberry opinions.
Potter Stewart
Potter Stewart (1915–1985), U.S. Supreme Court associate justice 1958–1981, Eisenhower recess appointee from Ohio, Sixth Circuit judge, centrist swing vote, author of "I know it when I see it" in Jacobellis v. Ohio.
Robert H. Jackson
Robert H. Jackson was an American Supreme Court justice from 1941 to 1954 who also served as Attorney General and chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials.
William J. Brennan Jr.
William J. Brennan Jr. (1906-1997), U.S. Supreme Court associate justice 1956-1990, Eisenhower recess appointee from New Jersey, author of Baker v. Carr, New York Times v. Sullivan, and Texas v. Johnson, and the Warren Court's leading liberal.
William O. Douglas
William O. Douglas (1898–1980), U.S. Supreme Court associate justice 1939–1975, longest tenure in Court history at over 36 years; FDR appointee, SEC chairman, author of Griswold v. Connecticut, environmental advocate.