White served as a private in the Confederate armies during the Civil War. Marshall served closely with President George Washington who had a great impact on Marshall’s later life. John Marshall, “The Great Chief Justice,” served in the Culpeper Minutemen and later as a Captain in the Continental Army. To date, six of the 17 Chief Justices had military service. Jay was the first, but not the last, person with military service to be appointed to the office of Chief Justice. Many of the early members of the Court had military service, commencing with the first Chief Justice, John Jay, who served as a Colonel in the New York Militia during the Revolutionary War. In addition, recently-retired Associate Justice Anthony M. Two members of the current Supreme Court of the United States are veterans: Associate Justices Stephen G. Their list noted the service of forty Justices who are veterans of the Armed Forces. In 2016, the staff of the Curator of the Supreme Court of the United States compiled an updated list of military service by Supreme Court Justices. The booklet outlined the names and dates of service of the Justices who had served in the Armed Forces to that date.

It was part of a larger series, Soldier-Statesmen of the Constitution, a Bicentennial Series.

The national commemoration of the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution in 1989 included a booklet titled The Judiciary and Military Justice. Rehnquist (last figure on the right riding on the horse) is shown at the pyramids at the time he was serving in the Army Air Forces.

Us navy ranks civil war