The 2026 events are below. We’ve also covered the justices’ 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 events, and prior years’ events in the recent past were covered by SCOTUSMap.

Future events, appearances and interviews

16. Justice Sotomayor is scheduled to speak with children’s author Carmen Tafolla at the Carver Community Center in San Antonio, Tex. (2/10) Announcement

17. Justice Sotomayor is scheduled to present her book, Just Shine!, at the First Baptist Church in Austin, Tex. (2/11): Announcement

18. Justice Thomas is scheduled to speak at the J. Reuben Clark Annual Conference at American University’s Washington College of Law in D.C. (2/26): Announcement

19. Justice Jackson is scheduled to speak at Mt. Ennon Baptist Church in Clinton, Md. (3/7): Announcement

20. Justice Barrett is scheduled to speak at the University of New Mexico School of Law in Albuquerque (3/8): Announcement

21. Justice Jackson is scheduled to speak at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland, Ore. (3/12): Announcement

22. Justice Breyer (ret.) is scheduled to speak at the State Library of Massachusetts in Boston (3/12): Announcement; livestream possible

23. Chief Justice Roberts is scheduled to speak with S.D. Tex. Judge Lee Rosenthal at Rice University in Houston (3/17): Announcement; livestream available

24. Justice Jackson is scheduled to speak at Southern Methodist University’s Tate Lecture Series in Dallas (5/12): Announcement

25. Justice Jackson is scheduled to speak and receive the Arabella Babb Mansfield Award at the National Association of Women Lawyers convention in Chicago (7/22 or 7/23): Announcement

26. Justice Thomas’ official portrait is expected to be unveiled at some point in the not-too-distant future (date unknown): Announcement

Past events, appearances and interviews

January

1. Justice Breyer (ret.) teaches a two-week course on the Supreme Court with Provost Jenny Martinez at Stanford Law School in Palo Alto, Calif. (early Jan.): Post (no video)

2. Justice Breyer (ret.) speaks with Provost Martinez at Stanford Law (1/8): Post (no video)

3. Justice Gorsuch meets with students of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation scholarship program at a private event. (1/9): Post (no video)

4. Justice Breyer (ret.) accepts the 11th Annual O’Connor Justice Prize at a dinner at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University in Phoenix and speaks with former Arizona Chief Justice Scott Bales at the event (1/16): Post (no video)

5. Justice Alito attends a conference and cocktail reception at the Hôtel Le Marois in Paris hosted by the Law & Liberty Circle and the Federalist Society (1/29): Announcement and article (no video)

6. Justice Jackson judges a moot court competition at Pepperdine Caruso School of Law in Malibu, Calif. (1/30): Post (no video)

7. Justice Jackson speaks with Caruso Law Dean Paul Caron in Malibu, Calif. (1/30): Article (no video)

February

8. Justice Jackson attends the 2026 Grammy Awards at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles (2/1): Video

9. Justice Kennedy is interviewed in his SCOTUS chambers by ABC News’ Devin Dwyer on “ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis” (2/2): Video

10. Chief Justice Roberts judges the Van Vleck Constitutional Law Moot Court Competition at GW Law in D.C. (2/5): Announcement

11. Justice Jackson speaks with artist Isaac Julien and Secretary of the Smithsonian Lonnie Bunch about Julien’s video installation on Frederick Douglass at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in D.C. (2/4): Post (no video)

12. Justice Breyer (ret.) speaks at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, Fla., as part of the school’s 125th anniversary celebration (2/5): Post (no video)

13. Justice Kennedy (ret.) speaks at the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach, Fla. (2/6): Announcement

14. Justice Sotomayor is honored with a lifetime achievement award at the Japanese American Bar Association dinner in Los Angeles (2/9): Announcement

15. Justice Alito is interviewed in his chambers by James Rosen of Politico (came out 2/10, interview conducted “last February”): Interview