<Li> Hawaii (admitted in 1959) </Li> <P> In contrast, some states have been over-represented, partly because there were fewer states from which early justices could be appointed . New York has produced fifteen justices, Ohio ten, Massachusetts nine, Virginia eight, six each from Pennsylvania and Tennessee, and five from Kentucky, Maryland, and New Jersey . A handful of justices were born outside the United States, mostly from among the earliest justices on the Court . These included James Wilson, born in Fife, Scotland; James Iredell, born in Lewes, England; and William Paterson, born in County Antrim, Ireland . Justice David Josiah Brewer was born farthest from the U.S., in Smyrna, in the Ottoman Empire, (now İzmir, Turkey). George Sutherland was born in Buckinghamshire, England . The last foreign - born Justice, and the only one of these for whom English was a second language, was Felix Frankfurter, born in Vienna, Austria . The Constitution imposes no citizenship requirement on federal judges . </P> <P> All Supreme Court justices were white and of European heritage until the appointment of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Justice, in 1967 . Since then, only two other non-white Justices have been appointed, Marshall's African - American successor, Clarence Thomas in 1991, and Sonia Sotomayor in 2009 . </P> <P> There have been six foreign - born justices in the Court's history: James Wilson (1789 - 1798), born in Caskardy, Scotland; James Iredell (1790 - 1799), born in Lewes, England; William Paterson (1793 - 1806), born in County Antrim, Ireland; David Brewer (1889 - 1910), born to American missionary parents in Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (now İzmir, Turkey); George Sutherland (1922 - 1939), born in Buckinghamshire, England; and Felix Frankfurter (1939 - 1962), born in Vienna, Austria . </P>

Which group has had the most supreme court justices