The Justices' 2025 Events and Appearances with Links to Videos When Recorded
The 2025 events are below. We’ve also covered the justices’ 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 events, and prior years’ events in the recent past were covered by SCOTUSMap.
Future events and appearances
29. Justice Jackson is scheduled to give the 2025 Supreme Court Fellows Program Annual Lecture at the Library of Congress’ Thomas Jefferson Building in Washington (2/13): Video expected
30. Justice Jackson is scheduled to speak remotely to the National Society of Leadership and Success (2/13): Announcement
31. Justice Breyer (ret.) is scheduled to give a book talk in Coral Gables, Fla., with former Miami Herald publisher David Lawrence, Jr. (2/16): Announcement
32. Justice Jackson is scheduled to give a book talk at the House of Hope in Chicago (2/19): Announcement
33. Justice Kagan is scheduled to receive the Woodrow Wilson Award from Princeton University in Princeton, N.J. (2/25): Announcement
34. Justice Breyer (ret.) is scheduled to speak at the Cary Lecture Series at Cary Hall in Lexington, Mass. (5/3): Announcement
35. Justice Sotomayor is scheduled to receive the World Peace & Liberty Award at the World Law Congress in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (5/6): Announcement
36. Justice Sotomayor is scheduled to speak with writer and director Fran Sillau about the stage adaptation of Just Ask (5/8): Announcement
Past events and appearances
1. Justice Barrett swears in Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) to her second term in a ceremony in the U.S. Capitol in Washington (1/3): Instagram post (no video)
2. Justice Kavanaugh attends an event celebrating the swearing in of Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) in the Capitol Visitor Center (1/3): Instagram post (no video)
3. Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Kagan and Kavanaugh attend the memorial service for President Jimmy Carter in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington (1/7): Video
4. Justice Breyer (ret.) hears oral argument in the First Circuit in Boston in five appeals (1/8): Audio (no video)
5. Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Alito, Sotomayor, Kagan, Kavanaugh, Barrett and Jackson attend Jimmy Carter’s funeral at the National Cathedral in Washington (1/9): Video
6. Justice Breyer (ret.) hears oral argument in the First Circuit in Boston in four appeals (1/10): Audio (no video)
7. Justice Breyer (ret.) receives a New York State Bar Association award at its annual gala in Manhattan (1/16): Video
8. Chief Justice Roberts swears in President Trump (video) and Justice Kavanaugh swears in Vice President Vance (video) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, with all other justices and Justice Breyer (ret.) in attendance (1/20): Video of the justices’ arrival
9. Justices Thomas, Alito and Kavanaugh and their wives, and Justice Gorsuch, attend the inauguration luncheon in the Capitol (1/20): Photos (no video)
10. Justice Kavanaugh serves as first reader for a mass celebrated at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Washington and attended by students in Notre Dame University’s D.C. program (1/24): Photos (no video)
11. Justice Thomas swears in Kristi Noem as DHS secretary in his home in McLean, Va. (1/25): Video
12. Justice Thomas swears in Sean Duffy at Transportation secretary in the Supreme Court building (1/28): Photo (no video)
13. Justice Kavanaugh swears in Scott Bessent as Treasury secretary in Washington, likely at the U.S. Treasury building or in the Supreme Court building (1/28): Announcement (no video)
14. Justice Sotomayor is interviewed by Jenna Saucedo-Herrera, chief executive officer of the San Antonio Economic Development Foundation, at Texas A&M University-San Antonio’s Cisneros Institute for Emerging Leaders (1/29): Article (no video)
15. Justice Kavanaugh swears in Lee Zeldin at EPA administrator in the Supreme Court Building (1/29): Photo (no video)
16. Justice Jackson is interviewed by Mark Sherman and Lindsay Whitehurst of the Associated Press in the Supreme Court (1/29): Article (no video)
17. Justice Sotomayor give a talk at St. Mary’s University’s School of Law in San Antonio (1/30): Photos (no video)
18. Justice Sotomayor attends the world premiere of Just Ask!, a play for children based on her book with the same name, at the Coterie Theatre in Kansas City, Mo. (1/31): Article (no video)
19. Justice Sotomayor reads her book Just Ask! to children at the Kansas City Ballet (2/1): Photo (no video)
20. Justice Thomas swears in Doug Collins as VA secretary in the Supreme Court Building (2/5): Photos (no video)
21. Justice Thomas swears in Pam Bondi as attorney general in the Oval Office (2/5): Video
22. Justice Thomas swears in Scott Turner as HUD secretary in the Roosevelt Room of the White House (2/5): Photo (no video)
23. Justice Sotomayor receives the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law’s Brandeis Medal in a ceremony at the Marriott Hotel in downtown Louisville, with remarks from Ky. Gov. Andy Beshear (2/5): Article (no full video yet, just clips)
24. Justice Jackson speaks with students at the St. Croix Career & Technical Education Center on St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands (2/6): Photos (no video)
25. Justice Jackson is interviewed by D. V.I. Judge Wilma Lewis at the Sidney Lee Event Center in Christiansted (island of St. Croix), U.S. Virgin Islands, in an event hosted by the U.S. District Court of the Virgin Islands (2/6): Article (no video)
26. Justice Jackson speaks at a University of the Virgin Islands student convocation on the school’s campus in St. Thomas, where she received an honorary degree (2/7): Article (no video)
27. Justice Jackson is interviewed by D. V.I. Judge Wilma Lewis at the Westin Resort & Spa at Frenchman’s Reefs in St. Thomas, in an event hosted by the U.S. District Court of the Virgin Islands (2/7): Article (no video)
28. Justice Thomas swears in Russ Vought to be OMB director in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (2/7): Photos (no video)