 Despite the efforts to achieve geographic balance , nineteen states have never produced a Supreme Court Justice . Some states have been over @-@ represented ( although partly because there were fewer states from which early justices could be appointed ) , with New York producing fifteen justices , Ohio producing 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 . 
