This is a list of ministers of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) of Brazil since its foundation as Supremo Tribunal de Justiça (Supreme Justice Court) the highest Brazilian court during the imperial period (1822–1889).^[1]

STF, in its initial composition had fifteen ministers. Decree n.º 19.656, Provisory Government act of 1931, reduced the number of ministers to eleven. The AI-2, of 1965, raised the number of ministers to 16. In 1969, AI-6 returned the composition to eleven ministers, which stays until this day.^[2]

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Seat	Order	Name	State of origin	Presidential nomination	Start	End
1	1	Visconde de Sabará	Minas Gerais	Deodoro da Fonseca	26 February 1891	4 May 1892
1	2	José Higino	Pernambuco	Floriano Peixoto	4 June 1892	7 June 1897
1	3	André Cavalcanti	Pernambuco	Prudente de Morais	12 June 1897	13 February 1927
1	4	Soriano de Sousa	Pernambuco	Washington Luís	25 February 1927	20 July 1933
1	5	Costa Manso	São Paulo	Getúlio Vargas	28 August 1933	3 May 1939
1	6	Barros Barreto	Pernambuco	Getúlio Vargas	17 May 1939	20 May 1963
1	7[AI-6]	Hermes Lima	Bahia	João Goulart	26 June 1963	19 January 1969
2	1	Freitas Henriques	Bahia	Deodoro da Fonseca	28 February 1891	10 February 1894
2	2	Luís Osório	Rio Grande do Sul	Floriano Peixoto	28 November 1894	26 November 1896
2	3	João Pedro	Maranhão	Manuel Vitorino	20 January 1897	2 November 1910
2	4	Leoni Ramos	Bahia	Nilo Peçanha	22 November 1910	20 March 1931
2	5	Carvalho Mourão	Minas Gerais	Getúlio Vargas	8 June 1931	10 December 1940
2	6	Castro Nunes	Rio de Janeiro	Getúlio Vargas	18 December 1940	2 September 1949
2	7	Luís Gallotti	Santa Catarina	Eurico Gaspar Dutra	22 September 1949	16 August 1974
2	8	Cordeiro Guerra	Rio de Janeiro	Ernesto Geisel	26 September 1974	18 March 1986
2	9	Célio Borja	Rio de Janeiro	José Sarney	14 April 1986	31 March 1992
2	10	Francisco Rezek (2ª nomination)	Minas Gerais	Fernando Collor de Mello	21 May 1992	5 February 1997
2	11	Nelson Jobim	Rio Grande do Sul	Fernando Henrique Cardoso	15 April 1997	29 March 2006
2	12	Cármen Lúcia	Minas Gerais	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva	21 June 2006	—
3	1	Alencar Araripe	Ceará	Deodoro da Fonseca	28 February 1891	25 January 1892
3	2	Macedo Soares	Rio de Janeiro	Floriano Peixoto	29 January 1892	14 August 1905
3	3	Guimarães Natal	Goiás	Rodrigues Alves	23 September 1905	13 April 1927
3	4	Cardoso Ribeiro	São Paulo	Washington Luís	25 May 1927	16 May 1932
3	5	Laudo de Camargo	São Paulo	Getúlio Vargas	9 June 1932	25 April 1951
3	6	Mário Guimarães	São Paulo	Getúlio Vargas	28 May 1951	10 April 1956
3	7	Cândido Mota	São Paulo	Juscelino Kubitschek	2 May 1956	18 September 1967
3	8	Amaral Santos	São Paulo	Costa e Silva	18 October 1967	25 July 1972
3	9	Rodrigues Alckmin	São Paulo	Emílio Garrastazu Médici	11 October 1972	6 November 1978
3	10	Rafael Mayer	Paraíba	Ernesto Geisel	15 December 1978	14 March 1989
3	11	Celso de Mello	São Paulo	José Sarney	17 August 1989	13 October 2020
3	12	Nunes Marques	Piauí	Jair Bolsonaro	5 November 2020	—
4	1	Andrade Pinto	Rio de Janeiro	Deodoro da Fonseca	28 February 1891	8 October 1894
4	2	Lúcio de Mendonça	Rio de Janeiro	Prudente de Morais	24 April 1895	26 October 1907
4	3	Pedro Lessa	Minas Gerais	Afonso Pena	20 November 1907	25 July 1921
4	4	Alfredo Pinto	Pernambuco	Epitácio Pessoa	21 September 1921	8 July 1923
4	5	Artur Ribeiro	Minas Gerais	Artur Bernardes	6 August 1923	24 March 1936
4	6	Carlos Maximiliano	Rio Grande do Sul	Getúlio Vargas	4 May 1936	13 June 1941
4	7	Valdemar Falcão	Ceará	Getúlio Vargas	18 June 1941	2 October 1946
4	8	Hahnemann Guimarães	Rio de Janeiro	Eurico Gaspar Dutra	30 October 1946	3 October 1967
4	9	Themístocles Cavalcanti	Rio de Janeiro	Costa e Silva	18 October 1967	14 October 1969
4	10	Bilac Pinto	Minas Gerais	Emílio Garrastazu Médici	17 June 1970	9 February 1978
4	11	Décio Miranda	Minas Gerais	Ernesto Geisel	27 June 1978	2 September 1985
4	12	Carlos Madeira	Maranhão	José Sarney	19 September 1985	17 March 1990
4	13	Marco Aurélio Mello	Rio de Janeiro	Fernando Collor de Mello	13 June 1990	9 July 2021
4	14	André Mendonça	São Paulo	Jair Bolsonaro	16 December 2021	—
5	1	Aquino e Castro	São Paulo	Deodoro da Fonseca	28 February 1891	10 August 1906
5	2	Manuel Espínola	Bahia	Rodrigues Alves	29 September 1906	7 October 1912
5	3[D-1931]	Pedro Mibielli	Rio Grande do Sul	Hermes da Fonseca	13 November 1912	18 February 1931
6	1	Faria	Rio de Janeiro	Deodoro da Fonseca	28 February 1891	1 February 1892
6	2	Anfilófio	Bahia	Floriano Peixoto	1 March 1892	3 April 1895
6	3	Figueiredo Júnior	Rio de Janeiro	Prudente de Morais	11 December 1895	23 August 1897
6	4	Augusto Olinto	Minas Gerais	Prudente de Morais	8 September 1897	12 August 1898
6	5	Gonçalves de Carvalho	Rio de Janeiro	Prudente de Morais	1 September 1898	18 January 1901
6	6	Alberto Torres	Rio de Janeiro	Campos Sales	18 May 1901	18 September 1909
6	7[D-1931]	Godofredo Cunha	Rio Grande do Sul	Nilo Peçanha	25 September 1909	18 February 1931
7	1	Mendonça Uchôa	Alagoas	Deodoro da Fonseca	28 February 1891	25 March 1892
7	2	Bento Lisboa	Rio de Janeiro	Floriano Peixoto	4 June 1892	18 November 1893
7	3	Bernardino Ferreira	São Paulo	Floriano Peixoto	10 October 1894	24 October 1905
7	4	Cardoso de Castro	Bahia	Rodrigues Alves	11 November 1905	26 October 1911
7	5	Oliveira Figueiredo	Rio de Janeiro	Hermes da Fonseca	11 November 1911	29 October 1912
7	6	Sebastião Lacerda	Rio de Janeiro	Hermes da Fonseca	16 November 1912	5 July 1925
7	7	Bento de Faria	Rio de Janeiro	Artur Bernardes	19 August 1925	25 May 1945
7	8	Edgard Costa	Rio de Janeiro	José Linhares	8 November 1945	19 January 1957
7	9	Vilas Boas	Minas Gerais	Juscelino Kubitschek	20 February 1957	25 November 1966
7	10	Djaci Falcão	Paraíba	Castelo Branco	21 February 1967	26 January 1989
7	11	Paulo Brossard	Rio Grande do Sul	José Sarney	5 April 1989	24 October 1994
7	12	Maurício Corrêa	Minas Gerais	Itamar Franco	15 December 1994	8 May 2004
7	13	Eros Grau	Rio Grande do Sul	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva	30 June 2004	2 August 2010
7	14	Luiz Fux	Rio de Janeiro	Dilma Rousseff	2 March 2011	—
8	1	Queirós Barros	Pernambuco	Deodoro da Fonseca	28 February 1891	15 March 1892
8	2	Faria Lemos	Pernambuco	Floriano Peixoto	4 June 1893	11 January 1894
8	3	Américo Brasiliense	São Paulo	Floriano Peixoto	24 November 1894	26 March 1896
8	4	Ribeiro de Almeida	Rio de Janeiro	Prudente de Morais	24 June 1896	30 September 1913
8	5	Coelho e Campos	Sergipe	Hermes da Fonseca	1 November 1913	13 October 1919
8	6	Pedro dos Santos	Bahia	Epitácio Pessoa	29 November 1919	18 February 1931
8	7	Eduardo Espínola	Bahia	Getúlio Vargas	13 May 1931	25 May 1945
8	8[AI-6]	Lafayette de Andrada	Minas Gerais	José Linhares	8 November 1945	3 February 1969
9	1	Sousa Mendes	Piauí	Deodoro da Fonseca	28 February 1891	6 May 1892
9	2	Ferreira de Resende	Minas Gerais	Floriano Peixoto	28 June 1892	26 October 1893
9	4	Sousa Martins	Piauí	Floriano Peixoto	10 October 1894	25 December 1896
9	5	Manuel Murtinho	Mato Grosso	Manuel Vitorino	23 January 1897	22 April 1917
9	6[D-1931]	Pires e Albuquerque	Bahia	Venceslau Brás	26 May 1917	18 February 1931
10	1	Trigo de Loureiro	São Paulo	Deodoro da Fonseca	28 February 1891	29 September 1894
10	2	Ubaldino do Amaral	Paraná	Prudente de Morais	15 December 1894	4 May 1896
10	3	João Barbalho	Pernambuco	Manuel Vitorino	20 January 1897	16 April 1906
10	4	Amaro Cavalcanti	Rio Grande do Norte	Rodrigues Alves	27 June 1906	30 December 1914
10	5	Viveiros de Castro	Maranhão	Venceslau Brás	3 February 1915	14 April 1927
10	6	Firmino Whitaker	São Paulo	Washington Luís	6 June 1927	5 March 1934
10	7	Ataulfo de Paiva	Rio de Janeiro	Getúlio Vargas	20 March 1934	16 December 1937
10	8	José Linhares	Ceará	Getúlio Vargas	24 December 1937	29 January 1956
10	9	Ary Franco	Rio de Janeiro	Nereu Ramos	1 February 1956	17 June 1963
10	10[AI-6]	Evandro Lins	Piauí	João Goulart	4 September 1963	16 January 1969
11	1	Costa Barradas	Maranhão	Deodoro da Fonseca	28 February 1891	21 October 1893
11	2	Pindaíba de Matos	Maranhão	Floriano Peixoto	10 October 1894	27 December 1910
11	3[D-1931]	Muniz Barreto	Rio de Janeiro	Hermes da Fonseca	31 December 1910	18 February 1931
12	1	Oliveira Figueiredo	Bahia	Deodoro da Fonseca	28 February 1891	20 January 1902
12	2	Epitácio Pessoa	Paraíba	Campos Sales	28 January 1902	17 August 1912
12	3	Enéas Galvão	Rio Grande do Sul	Hermes da Fonseca	24 August 1912	24 November 1916
12	4	João Mendes	Rio de Janeiro	Venceslau Brás	5 January 1917	24 October 1922
12	5	Geminiano da Franca	Paraíba	Epitácio Pessoa	22 November 1922	18 February 1931
12	6	Plínio Casado	Rio Grande do Sul	Getúlio Vargas	4 June 1931	1 October 1938
12	7	Washington de Oliveira	Rio de Janeiro	Getúlio Vargas	12 October 1938	17 June 1940
12	8	Annibal Freire	Sergipe	Getúlio Vargas	26 June 1940	17 May 1951
12	9	Nélson Hungria	Minas Gerais	Getúlio Vargas	4 June 1951	11 April 1961
12	10	Pedro Chaves	São Paulo	Jânio Quadros	26 April 1961	5 June 1967
12	11	Barros Monteiro	São Paulo	Costa e Silva	7 July 1967	3 May 1974
12	12	Leitão de Abreu	Rio Grande do Sul	Ernesto Geisel	17 June 1974	11 August 1981
12	13	Néri da Silveira	Rio Grande do Sul	João Figueiredo	1 September 1981	24 April 2002
12	14	Gilmar Mendes	Mato Grosso	Fernando Henrique Cardoso	20 June 2002	—
13	1	Barão de Lucena	Pernambuco	Deodoro da Fonseca	28 February 1891	25 January 1892
13	2	Barros Pimentel	Alagoas	Floriano Peixoto	29 January 1892	18 November 1893
13	3	Hermínio do Espírito Santo	Pernambuco	Floriano Peixoto	17 November 1894	11 November 1924
13	4	João Luís Alves	Minas Gerais	Artur Bernardes	24 January 1925	15 November 1925
13	5	Herculano de Freitas	Rio Grande do Sul	Artur Bernardes	28 January 1926	14 May 1926
13	6	Heitor de Sousa	Sergipe	Artur Bernardes	2 July 1926	11 January 1929
13	7	Rodrigo Otávio	São Paulo	Washington Luís	8 February 1929	7 February 1934
13	8	Otávio Kelly	Rio de Janeiro	Getúlio Vargas	14 February 1934	30 July 1942
13	9	Filadelfo e Azevedo	Rio de Janeiro	Getúlio Vargas	16 August 1942	26 January 1946
13	10	Ribeiro da Costa	Rio de Janeiro	José Linhares	30 January 1946	5 December 1966
13	11	Adauto Cardoso	Minas Gerais	Castelo Branco	2 March 1967	18 March 1971
13	12	Antônio Neder	Minas Gerais	Emílio Garrastazu Médici	28 April 1971	10 June 1981
13	13	Firmino Paz	Piauí	João Figueiredo	24 June 1981	17 July 1982
13	14	Aldir Passarinho	Piauí	João Figueiredo	2 September 1982	22 April 1991
13	15	Ilmar Galvão	Bahia	Fernando Collor de Mello	26 June 1991	3 May 2003
13	16	Ayres Britto	Sergipe	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva	25 June 2003	18 November 2012
13	17	Luís Roberto Barroso	Rio de Janeiro	Dilma Rousseff	26 June 2013	—
14	1	Barão de Sobral	Ceará	Deodoro da Fonseca	28 February 1891	31 August 1893
14	2	Barata Ribeiro	Bahia	Floriano Peixoto	25 November 1893	24 September 1894
14	3	Américo Lobo	Minas Gerais	Floriano Peixoto	8 December 1894	1 October 1903
14	4	Oliveira Ribeiro	Minas Gerais	Rodrigues Alves	14 October 1903	29 June 1917
14	5	Edmundo Lins	Minas Gerais	Venceslau Brás	12 September 1917	16 November 1937
14	6	Armando de Alencar	Rio Grande do Sul	Getúlio Vargas	22 November 1937	6 May 1941
14	7	Orozimbo Nonato	Minas Gerais	Getúlio Vargas	21 May 1941	27 January 1960
14	8[AI-6]	Gonçalves de Oliveira	Minas Gerais	Juscelino Kubitschek	15 February 1960	3 February 1969
15	1	Piza e Almeida	São Paulo	Deodoro da Fonseca	1 April 1891	22 April 1908
15	2	Canuto Saraiva	São Paulo	Afonso Pena	16 June 1908	25 May 1919
15	3	Hermenegildo de Barros	Minas Gerais	Delfim Moreira	26 July 1919	16 November 1937
15	4	Cunha Melo	Pernambuco	Getúlio Vargas	24 November 1937	1 April 1942
15	5	Goulart de Oliveira	Rio de Janeiro	Getúlio Vargas	15 April 1942	28 May 1950
15	6	Rocha Lagoa	Minas Gerais	Eurico Gaspar Dutra	16 June 1950	19 November 1960
15	7[AI-6]	Victor Nunes	Minas Gerais	Juscelino Kubitschek	7 December 1960	16 January 1969
16	1[AI-2]	Adalício Nogueira	Bahia	Castelo Branco	25 November 1965	24 February 1972
16	2	Xavier de Albuquerque	Amazonas	Emílio Garrastazu Médici	19 April 1972	21 February 1983
16	3	Francisco Rezek (1ª nomeação)	Minas Gerais	João Figueiredo	24 March 1983	15 March 1990
16	4	Carlos Velloso	Minas Gerais	Fernando Collor de Mello	13 June 1990	19 January 2006
16	5	Ricardo Lewandowski	Rio de Janeiro	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva	16 March 2006	11 April 2023
16	6	Cristiano Zanin	São Paulo	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva	3 August 2023	—
17	1[AI-2]	Prado Kelly	Rio de Janeiro	Castelo Branco	25 November 1965	18 January 1968
17	2	Thompson Flores	Rio Grande do Sul	Costa e Silva	14 March 1968	26 January 1981
17	3	Clóvis Ramalhete	Espírito Santo	João Figueiredo	8 April 1981	25 February 1982
17	4	Oscar Correia	Minas Gerais	João Figueiredo	26 April 1982	17 January 1989
17	5	Sepúlveda Pertence	Minas Gerais	José Sarney	17 May 1989	17 August 2007
17	6	Menezes Direito	Pará	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva	5 September 2007	1 September 2009
17	7	Dias Toffoli	São Paulo	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva	23 October 2009	—
18	1[AI-2]	Osvaldo Trigueiro	Paraíba	Castelo Branco	25 November 1965	3 January 1975
18	2	Moreira Alves	São Paulo	Ernesto Geisel	20 June 1975	20 April 2003
18	3	Joaquim Barbosa	Minas Gerais	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva	25 June 2003	31 July 2014
18	4	Edson Fachin	Rio Grande do Sul	Dilma Rousseff	16 June 2015	—
19	1[AI-2]	Aliomar Baleeiro	Bahia	Castelo Branco	25 November 1965	2 May 1975
19	2	Cunha Peixoto	Minas Gerais	Ernesto Geisel	4 July 1975	9 December 1981
19	3	Alfredo Buzaid	São Paulo	João Figueiredo	30 March 1982	20 July 1984
19	4	Sydney Sanches	São Paulo	João Figueiredo	31 August 1984	27 April 2003
19	5	Cezar Peluso	São Paulo	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva	25 June 2003	3 September 2012
19	6	Teori Zavascki	Santa Catarina	Dilma Rousseff	29 November 2012	19 January 2017
19	7	Alexandre de Moraes	São Paulo	Michel Temer	22 March 2017	—
20	1[AI-2]	Carlos Medeiros	Minas Gerais	Castelo Branco	25 November 1965	18 July 1966
20	2	Elói da Rocha	Rio Grande do Sul	Castelo Branco	15 September 1966	2 June 1977
20	3	Soares Muñoz	Rio Grande do Sul	Ernesto Geisel	8 August 1977	5 November 1984
20	4	Otávio Gallotti	Rio de Janeiro	João Figueiredo	20 November 1984	28 October 2000
20	5	Ellen Gracie	Rio de Janeiro	Fernando Henrique Cardoso	14 December 2000	8 August 2011
20	6	Rosa Weber	Rio Grande do Sul	Dilma Rousseff	19 December 2011	29 September 2023
20	7	Flávio Dino	Maranhão	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva	22 February 2024	—

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Legend

• AI-6. ^{^} Seat closed by AI-6 in 1969.
• D-1931. ^{^} Seat closed by decree nº 19.711 in 1931.
• AI-2. ^{^} Seat created by AI-2 in 1965.