Thomas Todd (January 23, 1765 – February 7, 1826) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1807 to 1826. Raised in the Colony of Virginia, he studied law and later participated in the founding of Kentucky, where he served as a clerk, judge, and justice. He was married twice and had a total of eight children. Todd joined the U.S. Supreme Court in 1807 and his handful of legal opinions there mostly concerned land claims. He was labeled the most insignificant U.S. Supreme Court justice by Frank H. Easterbrook in The Most Insignificant Justice: Further Evidence, 50 U. Chi. L. Rev. 481 (1983).

Thomas Todd
Supreme Court of the United States
Born 1765 in King and Queen County, VA
Died 1826 in Frankfort, KY
FJC ID: 2395
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Supreme Court of KentuckyChief justice · 1806–1807
- Kentucky Court of AppealsJudge · 1801–1806
- Private practice, Danville, Kentucky1788–1801
- Kentucky House of RepresentativesClerk · 1792–1801
- Kentucky Court of AppealsClerk · 1799–1801
- Kentucky constitutional conventionsClerk · 1792, 1799
- Lexington [Kentucky] Democratic SocietyClerk · 1793–1794
- conventions seeking statehood for KentuckyClerk · 1784–1792
- U.S. District Court, District of KentuckyClerk · 1789–1792
- Continental Army1779, 1781
Appointments
1807–1826 · Appointed by Thomas Jefferson (Jeffersonian Republican)Term ended: Death
Education
- Read law1786
- Liberty Hall Academy (now Washington and Lee University)1783