Fuller Court

Supreme Court of the United States

Fuller Court
Waite Court ← → White Court
Chief Justice Melville Fuller
October 10, 1888 – July 4, 1910 (21 years, 267 days)
Seat	Old Senate Chamber Washington, D.C.
No. of positions	9
Fuller Court decisions

The Fuller Court refers to the Supreme Court of the United States from 1888 to 1910, when Melville Fuller served as the eighth Chief Justice of the United States. Fuller succeeded Morrison R. Waite as Chief Justice after the latter's death, and Fuller served as Chief Justice until his death, at which point Associate Justice Edward Douglass White was nominated and confirmed as Fuller's replacement.

During the era of the Fuller Court, the Judiciary Act of 1891 was passed, easing the burden of the Supreme Court by creating the United States courts of appeals. The Fuller Court was the first of three consecutive conservative courts, and established the Lochner era.^[1]