document_title: Demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States

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text: Demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States

text: Geographic background[edit]

text: For most of the existence of the Court, geographic diversity was a key concern of presidents in choosing justices to appoint.[2] This was prompted in part by the early practice of Supreme Court justices also "riding circuit"—individually hearing cases in different regions of the country. In 1789, the United States was divided into judicial circuits, and from that time until 1891, Supreme Court justices also acted as judges within those individual circuits.[7] George Washington was careful to make appointments "with no two justices serving at the same time hailing from the same state".[8] Abraham Lincoln broke with this tradition during the Civil War,[7] and "by the late 1880s presidents disregarded it with increasing frequency".[9]

text: Although the importance of regionalism declined, it still arose from time to time. For example, in appointing Benjamin Cardozo in 1929, President Hoover was as concerned about the controversy over having three New York justices on the Court as he was about having two Jewish justices.[10] David M. O'Brien notes that "[f]rom the appointment of John Rutledge from South Carolina in 1789 until the retirement of Hugo Black [from Alabama] in 1971, with the exception of the Reconstruction decade of 1866–1876, there was always a southerner on the bench. Until 1867, the sixth seat was reserved as the 'southern seat'. Until Cardozo's appointment in 1932, the third seat was reserved for New Englanders."[11] The westward expansion of the U.S. led to concerns that the western states should be represented on the Court as well, which purportedly prompted William Howard Taft to make his 1910 appointment of Willis Van Devanter of Wyoming.[12]

text: Geographic balance was sought in the 1970s, when Nixon attempted to employ a "Southern strategy", hoping to secure support from Southern states by nominating judges from the region.[1] Nixon unsuccessfully nominated Southerners Clement Haynsworth of South Carolina and G. Harrold Carswell of Georgia, before finally succeeding with the nomination of Harry Blackmun of Minnesota.[13]  The issue of regional diversity was again raised  with the 2010 retirement of John Paul Stevens, who had been appointed from the midwestern Seventh Circuit, leaving the Court with all but one Justice having been appointed from states on the East Coast.[14]

text: As of  2017[update], the Court has a majority from the Northeastern United States, with six justices coming from states to the north and east of Washington, D.C. including four justices born or raised in New York City.  The remaining three justices come from Georgia, California and Colorado; the most recent justice from the Midwest being John Paul Stevens of Illinois who retired in 2010. Contemporary Justices may be associated with multiple states. Many nominees are appointed while serving in states or districts other than their hometown or home state. Chief Justice John Roberts, for example, was born in New York, but moved to Indiana at the age of five, where he grew up. After law school, Roberts worked in Washington, D.C. while living in Maryland. Thus, three states may claim his domicile.

text: Despite the efforts to achieve geographic balance, only seven justices[a] have ever hailed from states admitted after or during the Civil War. Nineteen states have never produced a Supreme Court Justice; in chronological order of admission to the Union these are:

text:
Delaware (original state)
Rhode Island (original state)
Vermont (admitted in 1791)
Arkansas (admitted in 1836)
Florida (admitted in 1845)
Wisconsin (admitted in 1848)
Oregon (admitted in 1859)
West Virginia (admitted in 1863)[b]
Nevada (admitted in 1864)
Nebraska (admitted in 1867)
North Dakota (admitted in 1889)
South Dakota (admitted in 1889)
Montana (admitted in 1889)
Washington (admitted in 1889)
Idaho (admitted in 1890)
Oklahoma (admitted in 1907)
New Mexico (admitted in 1912)
Alaska (admitted in 1959) and
Hawaii (admitted in 1959)

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text: In contrast, some states have been over-represented, partly because there were fewer states from which early justices could be appointed. New York has produced fifteen justices, Ohio ten, Massachusetts nine, Virginia eight, six each from Pennsylvania and Tennessee, and five from Kentucky, Maryland, and New Jersey.[13] 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.[15] The Constitution imposes no citizenship requirement on federal judges.

text: Ethnicity[edit]

text: All Supreme Court justices were white and of European heritage until the appointment of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Justice, in 1967. Since then, only two other non-white Justices have been appointed, Marshall's African-American successor, Clarence Thomas in 1991, and Latina Justice Sonia Sotomayor in 2009.

text: Foreign birth[edit]

text: There have been six foreign-born justices in the Court's history: James Wilson (1789-1798), born in Caskardy, Scotland; James Iredell (1790-1799), born in Lewes, England; William Paterson (1793-1806), born in County Antrim, Ireland; David Brewer (1889-1910), born to American missionary parents in Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (now İzmir, Turkey);[16] George Sutherland (1922-1939), born in Buckinghamshire, England; and Felix Frankfurter (1939-1962), born in Vienna, Austria.[17]

text: White justices[edit]

text: The vast majority of white justices have been of Northern European, Northwestern European, or Germanic Protestant descent. Up until the 1980s, only six justices of "central, eastern, or southern European derivation" had been appointed, and even among these six justices, five of them "were of Germanic background, which includes Austrian, German-Bohemian, and Swiss origins (John Catron, Samuel F. Miller, Louis Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter, and Warren Burger)" while only one justice was of non-Germanic, Southern European descent (Benjamin N. Cardozo, of Iberian descent).[18] Cardozo, appointed to the Court in 1932, was the first justice known to have non-Germanic or non-Anglo-Saxon ancestry and the first justice of Southern European descent.[citation needed]. Both of Justice Cardozo's parents descended from Sephardic Jews from the Iberian Peninsula who fled to Holland during the Spanish Inquisition then to London, before arriving in New York prior to the American Revolution.[19][page needed] Justice Antonin Scalia, who served from 1986-2016, and Justice Samuel Alito, who has served since 2006, are the first justices of Italian descent to be appointed to the Supreme Court.[citation needed] Justice Scalia's father and both maternal grandparents as well as both of Justice Alito's parents were born in Italy.[20][21][22] Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was born to a father who immigrated from Russia at age 13 and a mother who was born four months after her parents immigrated from Poland.[23]

text: African American justices[edit]

text: No African-American candidate was given serious consideration for appointment to the Supreme Court until the election of John F. Kennedy, who weighed the possibility of appointing William H. Hastie of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.[24] Hastie had been the first African-American elevated to a Court of Appeals when Harry S. Truman had so appointed him in 1949, and by the time of the Kennedy Administration, it was widely anticipated that Hastie might be appointed to the Supreme Court.[25] That Kennedy gave serious consideration to making this appointment "represented the first time in American history that an African American was an actual contender for the high court".[24]

text: The first African American appointed to the Court was Thurgood Marshall, appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967. The second was Clarence Thomas, appointed by George H. W. Bush to succeed Marshall in 1991.

text: Johnson appointed Marshall to the Supreme Court following the retirement of Justice Tom C. Clark, saying that this was "the right thing to do, the right time to do it, the right man and the right place." Marshall was confirmed as an Associate Justice by a Senate vote of 69–11 on August 31, 1967.[26] Johnson confidently predicted to one biographer, Doris Kearns Goodwin, that a lot of black baby boys would be named "Thurgood" in honor of this choice (in fact, Kearns's research of birth records in New York and Boston indicates that Johnson's prophecy did not come true).[27]

text: Bush initially wanted to nominate Thomas to replace William Brennan, who stepped down in 1990, but he then decided that Thomas had not yet had enough experience as a judge after only months on the federal bench.[28] Bush therefore nominated New Hampshire Supreme Court judge David Souter (who is not African American) instead.[28] The selection of Thomas to instead replace Marshall preserved the existing racial composition of the court.

text: Hispanic and Latino justices[edit]

text: The words "Latino" and "Hispanic" are sometimes given distinct meanings, with "Latino" referring to persons of Latin American descent, and "Hispanic" referring to persons having an ancestry, language or culture traceable to Spain or to the Iberian Peninsula as a whole, as well as to persons of Latin American descent, whereas the term "Lusitanic" usually refers to persons having an ancestry, language or culture traceable to Portugal specifically.

text: Sonia Sotomayor—nominated by President Barack Obama on May 26, 2009, and sworn in on August 8—is the first Supreme Court Justice of Latin American descent. Born in New York City of Puerto Rican parents, she has been known to refer to herself as a "Nuyorican". Sotomayor is also generally regarded as the first Hispanic justice, although some sources claim that this distinction belongs to former Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo.

text:
It has been claimed that "only since the George H. W. Bush administration have Hispanic candidates received serious consideration from presidents in the selection process",[29] and that Emilio M. Garza (considered for the vacancy eventually given to Clarence Thomas[30]) was the first Hispanic judge for whom such an appointment was contemplated.[31]  Subsequently, Bill Clinton was reported by several sources to have considered José A. Cabranes for a Supreme Court nomination on both occasions when a Court vacancy opened during the Clinton presidency.[32][33]
The possibility of a Hispanic Justice returned during the George W. Bush Presidency, with various reports suggesting that Emilio Garza,[34] Alberto Gonzales,[35] and Consuelo M. Callahan[36] were under consideration for the vacancy left by the retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor.  O'Connor's seat eventually went to Samuel Alito, however.  Speculation about a Hispanic nomination arose again after the election of Barack Obama.[37] In 2009, Obama appointed Sonia Sotomayor, a woman of Puerto Rican descent, to be the first unequivocally Hispanic Justice.[38] Both the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials and the Hispanic National Bar Association count Sotomayor as the first Hispanic justice.[39][40]

text: Some historians contend that Cardozo—a Sephardic Jew believed to be of distant Portuguese descent[41]—should also be counted as the first Hispanic Justice.[1] Schmidhauser wrote in 1979 that "[a]mong the large ethnic groupings of European origin which have never been represented upon the Supreme Court are the Italians, Southern Slavs, and Hispanic Americans."[18] The National Hispanic Center for Advanced Studies and Policy Analysis wrote in 1982 that the Supreme Court "has never had an Hispanic Justice",[42] and the Hispanic American Almanac similarly reported in 1996 that "no Hispanic has yet sat on the U.S. Supreme Court".[43] However, Segal and Spaeth state: "Though it is often claimed that no Hispanics have served on the Court, it is not clear why Benjamin Cardozo, a Sephardic Jew of Spanish heritage, should not count." They identify a number of other sources that present conflicting views as to Cardozo's ethnicity, with one simply labeling him "Iberian." In 2007, the Dictionary of Latino Civil Rights History also listed Cardozo as "the first Hispanic named to the Supreme Court of the United States."[44]

text: The nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, widely described in media accounts as the first Hispanic nominee, drew more attention to the question of Cardozo's ethnicity.[39][40][45][46] Cardozo biographer Andrew Kaufman questioned the usage of the term "hispanic" during Cardozo's lifetime, commenting: "Well, I think he regarded himself as Sephardic Jew whose ancestors came from the Iberian Peninsula."[39] However, "no one has ever firmly established that the family's roots were, in fact, in Portugal".[47] It has also been asserted that Cardozo himself "confessed in 1937 that his family preserved neither the Spanish language nor Iberian cultural traditions".[48] By contrast, Cardozo made his own translations of authoritative legal works written in French and German.[49]

text: Ethnic groups that have never been represented[edit]

text: Many ethnic groups have never been represented on the Court. There has never been a Justice with any Asian, Native American, or Pacific Islander heritage, and no person having such a heritage was publicly considered for an appointment until the 21st century. Legal scholar Viet D. Dinh, of Vietnamese descent, was named as a potential George W. Bush nominee.[50] During the presidency of Barack Obama, potential nominees have included Harold Hongju Koh, of Korean descent, and former Idaho attorney general Larry Echo Hawk, a member of the Pawnee tribe.[51]

text: Public opinion on ethnic diversity[edit]

text: Public opinion about ethnic diversity on the court "varies widely depending on the poll question's wording".[6] For example, in two polls taken in 1991, one resulted in half of respondents agreeing that it was "important that there always be at least one black person" on the Court while the other had only 20% agreeing with that sentiment, and with 77% agreeing that "race should never be a factor in choosing Supreme Court justices".[6]

text: Gender[edit]

text: Of the 113 justices, 109 (96.5%) have been men.  All Supreme Court justices were males until 1981, when Ronald Reagan fulfilled his 1980 campaign promise to place a woman on the Court,[52] which he did with the appointment of Sandra Day O'Connor. O'Connor was later joined on the Court by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, appointed by Bill Clinton in 1993. After O'Connor retired in 2006, Ginsburg would be joined by Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, who were successfully appointed to the Court in 2009 and 2010, respectively, by Barack Obama.[53] The only other woman to be nominated to the Court was Harriet Miers, whose nomination to succeed O'Connor by George W. Bush was withdrawn under fire.

text: Substantial public sentiment in support of appointment of a woman to the Supreme Court has been expressed since at least as early as 1930, when an editorial in the Christian Science Monitor encouraged Herbert Hoover to consider Ohio justice Florence E. Allen or assistant attorney general Mabel Walker Willebrandt.[54] Franklin Delano Roosevelt later appointed Allen to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit—making her "one of the highest ranking female jurists in the world at that time".[55] However, neither Roosevelt nor his successors over the following two decades gave strong consideration to female candidates for the Court. Harry Truman considered such an appointment, but was dissuaded by concerns raised by justices then serving that a woman on the Court "would inhibit their conference deliberations", which were marked by informality.[55]

text: President Richard Nixon named Mildred Lillie, then serving on the Second District Court of Appeal of California, as a potential nominee to fill one of two vacancies on the Court in 1971.[52] However, Lillie was quickly deemed unqualified by the American Bar Association, and no formal proceedings were ever set with respect to her potential nomination. Lewis Powell and William Rehnquist were then successfully nominated to fill those vacancies.

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Death

Yearappointed

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Sandra Day O'Connor

Arizona
1930
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1981
2006
Reagan
retirement

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

New York
1933
living
1993
incumbent
Clinton
—

Sonia Sotomayor

New York
1954
living
2009
incumbent
Obama
—

Elena Kagan

New York
1960
living
2010
incumbent
Obama
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text: Public opinion on gender diversity[edit]

text: In 1991, a poll found that 53% of Americans felt it "important that there always be at least one woman" on the Court.[6] However, when O'Connor stepped down from the court, leaving Justice Ginsburg as the lone remaining woman, only one in seven persons polled found it "essential that a woman be nominated to replace" O'Connor.[6]

text: Marital status and sexual orientation[edit]

text: Marital status[edit]

text: All but a handful of Supreme Court justices have been married. Frank Murphy, Benjamin Cardozo, and James McReynolds were all lifelong bachelors.[56] In addition, retired justice David Souter and current justice Elena Kagan have never been married.[57][58] William O. Douglas was the first Justice to divorce while on the Court, and also had the most marriages of any Justice, with four.[56] Justice John Paul Stevens divorced his first wife in 1979, marrying his second wife later that year. Sonia Sotomayor was the first female justice to be appointed as an unmarried woman, having divorced in 1983, long before her nomination in 2009.[56][58]

text: Several justices have become widowers while on the bench. The 1792 death of Elizabeth Rutledge, wife of Justice John Rutledge, contributed to the mental health problems that led to the rejection of his recess appointment.[59] Roger B. Taney survived his wife, Anne, by twenty years. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. resolutely continued working on the Court for several years after the death of his wife.[60] William Rehnquist was a widower for the last fourteen years of his service on the Court, his wife Natalie having died on October 17, 1991 after suffering from ovarian cancer.[61] With the death of Martin D. Ginsburg in June 2010, Ruth Bader Ginsburg became the first woman to be widowed while serving on the Court.[62]

text: Sexual orientation[edit]

text: With regards to sexual orientation, no Supreme Court justice has identified himself or herself as anything other than heterosexual, and no incontrovertible evidence of a justice having any other sexual orientation has ever been uncovered. However, the personal lives of several justices and nominees have attracted speculation.

text: G. Harrold Carswell was unsuccessfully nominated by Richard Nixon in 1970, and was convicted in 1976 of battery for making an "unnatural and lascivious" advance to a male police officer working undercover in a Florida men's room.[63] Some therefore claim him as the only gay or bisexual person nominated to the Court thus far.[64][65] If so, it is unlikely that Nixon was aware of it; White House Counsel John Dean later wrote of Carswell that "[w]hile Richard Nixon was always looking for historical firsts, nominating a homosexual to the high court would not have been on his list".[65]

text: Speculation has been recorded about the sexual orientation of a few justices who were lifelong bachelors, but no unambiguous evidence exists that they were gay. Perhaps the greatest body of circumstantial evidence surrounds Frank Murphy, who was dogged by "[r]umors of homosexuality [...] all his adult life".[66]

text: For more than 40 years, Edward G. Kemp was Frank Murphy's devoted, trusted companion. Like Murphy, Kemp was a lifelong bachelor. From college until Murphy's death, the pair found creative ways to work and live together. [...] When Murphy appeared to have the better future in politics, Kemp stepped into a supportive, secondary role.[67]

text: As well as Murphy's close relationship with Kemp, Murphy's biographer, historian Sidney Fine, found in Murphy's personal papers a letter that "if the words mean what they say, refers to a homosexual encounter some years earlier between Murphy and the writer." However, the letter's veracity cannot be confirmed and a review of all the evidence led Fine to conclude that he "could not stick his neck out and say [Murphy] was gay".[68]

text: Speculation has also surrounded Benjamin Cardozo, whose celibacy suggests repressed homosexuality or asexuality. The fact that he was unmarried and was personally tutored by the writer Horatio Alger (alleged to have had sexual relations with boys) led some of Cardozo's biographers to insinuate that Cardozo was homosexual, but no real evidence exists to corroborate this possibility. Constitutional law scholar Jeffrey Rosen noted in a New York Times Book Review of Richard Polenberg's book on Cardozo:

text: Polenberg describes Cardozo's lifelong devotion to his older sister Nell, with whom he lived in New York until her death in 1929. When asked why he had never married, Cardozo replied, quietly and sadly, "I never could give Nellie the second place in my life." Polenberg suggests that friends may have stressed Cardozo's devotion to his sister to discourage rumors "that he was sexually dysfunctional, or had an unusually low sexual drive or was homosexual." But he produces no evidence to support any of these possibilities, except to note that friends, in describing Cardozo, used words like "beautiful", "exquisite", "sensitive" or "delicate."[69]

text: Andrew Kaufman, author of Cardozo, a biography published in 2000, notes that "Although one cannot be absolutely certain, it seems highly likely that Cardozo lived a celibate life".[70] Judge Learned Hand is quoted in the book as saying about Cardozo: "He [had] no trace of homosexuality anyway".[71]

text: More recently, when David Souter was nominated to the Court, "conservative groups expressed concern to the White House... that the president's bachelor nominee might conceivably be a homosexual".[72] Similar questions were raised regarding the sexual orientation of unmarried nominee Elena Kagan.[73] However, no evidence was ever produced regarding Souter's sexual orientation, and Kagan's apparent heterosexuality was attested by colleagues familiar with her dating history.[74]

text: Religion[edit]

text: When the Supreme Court was established in 1789, the first members came from among the ranks of the Founding Fathers and were almost uniformly Protestant. Of the 113 justices who have been appointed to the court, 91 have been from various Protestant denominations, 12 have been Catholics (one other justice, Sherman Minton, converted to Catholicism after leaving the Court). Another, Neil Gorsuch, was raised in the Catholic Church but later attended an Episcopal church, though without specifying the denomination to which he felt he belonged.[75] Eight have been Jewish and one, David Davis, had no known religious affiliation. Three of the 17 chief justices have been Catholics, and one Jewish justice, Abe Fortas, was unsuccessfully nominated to be chief justice.

text: The table below shows the religious affiliation of each of the justices sitting as of  August 2018[update]:

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Name

Religion

Appt. by

On the Court since

John Roberts (Chief Justice)

Roman Catholicism

G.W. Bush

2005

Clarence Thomas

Roman Catholicism

G.H.W. Bush

1991

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Judaism

Clinton

1993

Stephen Breyer

Judaism

Clinton

1994

Samuel Alito

Roman Catholicism

G.W. Bush

2006

Sonia Sotomayor

Roman Catholicism

Obama

2009

Elena Kagan

Judaism

Obama

2010

Neil Gorsuch

Raised Roman Catholic, attends Episcopal Church[75]

Trump

2017

text: Protestant justices[edit]

text: Most Supreme Court justices have been Protestant Christians. These have included 33 Episcopalians, 18 Presbyterians, nine Unitarians, five Methodists, three Baptists, and lone representatives of various other denominations.[76] William Rehnquist was the Court's only Lutheran.  Noah Swayne was a Quaker. Some 15 Protestant justices did not adhere to a particular denomination.  Baptist denominations and other evangelical churches have been underrepresented on the Court, relative to the population of the United States.  Conversely, mainline Protestant churches historically were overrepresented.[citation needed]

text: Following the retirement of John Paul Stevens in June 2010, the Court had an entirely non-Protestant composition for the first time in its history.[77][78] Although Neil Gorsuch, appointed in 2017, attends an Episcopalian church, he was raised Catholic and it is unclear if he considers himself a Catholic or a Protestant.[75]

text: Catholic justices[edit]

text: The first Catholic justice, Roger B. Taney, was appointed chief justice in 1836 by Andrew Jackson. The second, Edward Douglass White, was appointed as an associate justice in 1894, but also went on to become chief justice. Joseph McKenna was appointed in 1898, placing two Catholics on the Court until White's death in 1921. This period marked the beginning of an inconsistently observed "tradition" of having a "Catholic seat" on the court.[79]

text: Other Catholic justices included Pierce Butler (appointed 1923) and Frank Murphy (appointed 1940). Sherman Minton, appointed in 1949, was a Protestant during his time on the Court. To some, however, his wife's Catholic faith implied a "Catholic seat".[80]  Minton joined his wife's church in 1961, five years after he retired from the Court.[81]  Minton was succeeded by a Catholic, however, when President Eisenhower appointed William J. Brennan to that seat. Eisenhower sought a Catholic to appoint to the Court—in part because there had been no Catholic justice since Murphy's death in 1949, and in part because Eisenhower was directly lobbied by Cardinal Francis Spellman of the Archdiocese of New York to make such an appointment.[82] Brennan was then the lone Catholic justice until the appointment of Antonin Scalia in 1986, and Anthony Kennedy in 1988.

text: Like Sherman Minton, Clarence Thomas was not a Catholic at the time he was appointed to the Court. Thomas was raised Catholic and briefly attended Conception Seminary College, a Roman Catholic seminary,[83] but had joined the Protestant denomination of his wife after their marriage. At some point in the late 1990s, Thomas returned to Catholicism. In 2005, John Roberts became the third Catholic Chief Justice and the fourth Catholic on the Court. Shortly thereafter, Samuel Alito became the fifth on the Court, and the eleventh in the history of the Court. Alito's appointment gave the Court a Catholic majority for the first time in its history. Besides Thomas, at least one other Justice, James F. Byrnes, was raised as a Roman Catholic, but converted to a different branch of Christianity prior to serving on the Court.

text: In contrast to historical patterns, the Court has gone from having a "Catholic seat" to being what some have characterized as a "Catholic court."  The reasons for that are subject to debate, and are a matter of intense public scrutiny.[84] That the majority of the Court is now Catholic, and that the appointment of Catholics has become accepted, represents a historical 'sea change.'  It has fostered accusations that the court has become "a Catholic boys club" (particularly as the Catholics chosen tend to be politically conservative) and calls for non-Catholics to be nominated.[85]

text: In May 2009, President Barack Obama nominated a Catholic woman, Sonia Sotomayor, to replace retiring Justice David Souter.[86] Her confirmation raised the number of Catholics on the Court to six, compared to three non-Catholics (all Jewish). With Antonin Scalia's death in February 2016, the number of Catholic Justices went back to five. Neil Gorsuch, appointed in 2017, was raised Catholic but attends an Episcopalian church; it is unclear if he considers himself a Catholic or a Protestant.[75] With Anthony Kennedy's retirement in July 2018, the number of Catholic Justices went down to four.

text: All of the Catholic justices have been members of the Roman (or Latin) rite within the Catholic Church.

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Roger B. Taney

Maryland
1777
1864
1836
1864
Jackson
death

Edward Douglass White

Louisiana
1845
1921
1894
1921
Cleveland (associate)Taft (chief)[87]
death

Joseph McKenna

California
1843
1926
1898
1925
McKinley
retirement

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Minnesota
1866
1939
1923
1939
Harding
death

Frank Murphy

Michigan
1890
1949
1940
1949
F. Roosevelt
death

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Indiana
1890
1965
1949
1956
Truman
death[88]

William J. Brennan, Jr.

New Jersey
1906
1997
1956
1990
Eisenhower
death[88]

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New Jersey
1936
2016
1986
2016
Reagan
death

Anthony Kennedy

California
1936
living
1988
2018
Reagan
retirement

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Georgia
1948
living
1991
incumbent
G. H. W. Bush
—

John Roberts

Maryland
1955
living
2005
incumbent
G. W. Bush
—

Samuel Alito

New Jersey
1950
living
2006
incumbent
G. W. Bush
—

Sonia Sotomayor

New York
1954
living
2009
incumbent
Obama
—

text: Jewish justices[edit]

text: In 1853, President Millard Fillmore offered to appoint Louisiana Senator Judah P. Benjamin to be the first Jewish justice, and the New York Times reported (on February 15, 1853) that "if the President nominates Benjamin, the Democrats are determined to confirm him". However, Benjamin declined the offer, and ultimately became Secretary of State for the Confederacy during the Civil War. The first Jewish nominee, Louis Brandeis, was appointed in 1916, after a tumultuous hearing process. The 1932 appointment of Benjamin Cardozo raised mild controversy for placing two Jewish justices on the Court at the same time, although the appointment was widely lauded based on Cardozo's qualifications, and the Senate was unanimous in confirming Cardozo.[89]

text: Cardozo was succeeded by another Jewish Justice, Felix Frankfurter, but Brandeis was succeeded by Protestant William O. Douglas.  Negative reaction to the appointment of the early Jewish justices did not exclusively come from outside the Court. Justice James Clark McReynolds, a blatant anti-semite, refused to speak to Brandeis for three years following the latter's appointment and when Brandeis retired in 1939, did not sign the customary dedicatory letter sent to Court members on their retirement.  During Benjamin Cardozo's swearing in ceremony McReynolds pointedly read a newspaper muttering "another one" and did not attend that of Felix Frankfurter, exclaiming "My God, another Jew on the Court!"[90]

text: Frankfurter was followed by Arthur Goldberg and Abe Fortas, each of whom filled what became known as the "Jewish Seat". After Fortas resigned in 1969, he was replaced by Protestant Harry Blackmun. No Jewish justices were nominated thereafter until Ronald Reagan nominated Douglas H. Ginsburg in 1987, to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Lewis F. Powell; however, this nomination was withdrawn, and the Court remained without any Jewish justices until 1993, when Ruth Bader Ginsburg (unrelated to Douglas Ginsburg) was appointed to replace Byron White.  Ginsburg was followed in relatively quick succession by the appointment of Stephen Breyer, also Jewish, in 1994 to replace Harry Blackmun. In 2010, the confirmation of President Barack Obama's nomination of Elena Kagan to the Court ensured that three Jewish justices would serve simultaneously. Prior to this confirmation, conservative political commentator Pat Buchanan stated that, "If Kagan is confirmed, Jews, who represent less than 2 percent of the U.S. population, will have 33 percent of the Supreme Court seats".[91] At the time of his remarks, 6.4 percent of justices had been Jewish in the history of the court.[91]

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Kentucky
1856
1941
1916
1939
Wilson
retirement[92]

Benjamin N. Cardozo

New York
1870
1938
1932
1938
Hoover
death

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New York
1882
1965
1939
1962
F. Roosevelt
retirement

Arthur Goldberg

Illinois
1908
1990
1962
1965
Kennedy
resigned to becomeUN Ambassador

Abe Fortas

Tennessee
1910
1982
1965
1969
L.B. Johnson
resignation

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

New York
1933
living
1993
incumbent
Clinton
—

Stephen Breyer

California
1938
living
1994
incumbent
Clinton
—

Elena Kagan

New York
1960
living
2010
incumbent
Obama
—

text: The shift to a Catholic majority, and non-Protestant Court[edit]

text: At the time of Breyer's appointment in 1994, there were two Roman Catholic justices, Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy, and two Jewish justices, Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Clarence Thomas, who had been raised as a Roman Catholic but had attended an Episcopal church after his marriage, returned to Catholicism later in the 1990s. At this point, the four remaining Protestant justices—Rehnquist, Stevens, O'Connor, and Souter—remained a plurality on the Court, but for the first time in the history of the Court, Protestants were no longer an absolute majority.

text: The first Catholic plurality on the Court occurred in 2005, when Chief Justice Rehnquist was succeeded in office by Chief Justice John Roberts, who became the fourth sitting Catholic justice. On January 31, 2006, Samuel Alito became the fifth sitting Catholic justice, and on August 6, 2009, Sonia Sotomayor became the sixth. By contrast, there has been only one Catholic U.S. President, John F. Kennedy (unrelated to Justice Kennedy), and one Catholic U.S. Vice President, Joe Biden, and there has never been a Jewish U.S. President or Vice President.

text: At the beginning of 2010, Justice John Paul Stevens was the sole remaining Protestant on the Court.[86][93] In April 2010, Justice Stevens announced his retirement, effective as of the Court's 2010 summer recess. Upon Justice Stevens' retirement, which formally began on June 28, 2010, the Court lacked a Protestant member, marking the first time in its history that it was exclusively composed of Jewish and Catholic justices.[77] Although in January 2017, after seven years with no Protestant justices serving or nominated, President Donald Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to the Court, as noted above it is unclear whether Gorsuch considers himself a Catholic or an Episcopalian.[94][75]

text: This development led to some comment. Law school professor Jeffrey Rosen wrote that "it's a fascinating truth that we've allowed religion to drop out of consideration on the Supreme Court, and right now, we have a Supreme Court that religiously at least, by no means looks like America".[95]

text: Religions that have never been represented[edit]

text: A number of sizable religious groups, each less than 2% of the U.S. population,[96] have had no members appointed as justices. These include Orthodox Christians, Mormons, Pentecostals, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and Sikhs. George Sutherland has been described as a "lapsed Mormon"[97] because he was raised in the LDS Church, his parents having immigrated to the United States during Sutherland's infancy to join that church.[98] Sutherland's parents soon left the LDS Church and moved to Montana.[98] Sutherland himself also disaffiliated with the faith, but remained in Utah and graduated from Brigham Young Academy in 1881, the only non-Mormon in his class.[99] In 1975, Attorney General Edward H. Levi had listed Dallin H. Oaks, a Mormon who had clerked for Earl Warren and was then president of Brigham Young University, as a potential nominee for Gerald Ford. Ford "crossed Oaks's name off the list early on, noting in the margin that a member of the LDS Church might bring a 'confirmation fight'".[100]

text: No professing atheist has ever been appointed to the Court, although some justices have declined to engage in religious activity, or affiliate with a denomination. As an adult, Benjamin Cardozo no longer practiced his faith and identified himself as an agnostic, though he remained proud of his Jewish heritage.[101]

text: Age[edit]

text: Unlike the offices of President, U.S. Representative, and U.S. Senator, there is no minimum age for Supreme Court justices set forth in the United States Constitution. However, justices tend to be appointed after having made significant achievements in law or politics, which excludes many young potential candidates from consideration. At the same time, justices appointed at too advanced an age will likely have short tenures on the Court.

text: The youngest justice ever appointed was Joseph Story, 32 at the time of his appointment in 1812; the oldest was Charles Evans Hughes, who was 67 at the time of his appointment as Chief Justice in 1930. (Hughes had previously been appointed to the Court as an associate justice in 1910, at the age of 48, but had resigned in 1916 to run for president). Story went on to serve for 33 years, while Hughes served 11 years after his second appointment. The oldest justice at the time of his initial appointment was Horace Lurton, 65 at the time of his appointment in 1909. Lurton died after only four years on the Court. The oldest sitting justice to be elevated to Chief Justice was Hughes' successor, Harlan Fiske Stone, who was 68 at the time of his elevation in 1941. Stone died in 1946, only five years after his elevation. The oldest nominee to the court was South Carolina senator William Smith, nominated in 1837, then aged around 75 (it is known that he was born in 1762, but not the exact date). The Senate confirmed Smith's nomination by a vote of 23–18, but Smith declined to serve.[102]

text: Of the justices currently sitting, the youngest at time of appointment was Clarence Thomas, who was 43 years old at the time of his confirmation in 1991. As of the beginning of the 2017–18 term, Neil Gorsuch is the youngest justice sitting, at 50 years of age. The oldest person to have served on the Court was Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., who stepped down two months shy of his 91st birthday.[103] John Paul Stevens, second only to Holmes,[103] left the court in June 2010, two months after turning 90.

text: The average age of the Court as a whole fluctuates over time with the departure of older justices and the appointment of younger people to fill their seats. The average age of the Court is 72 years, 8 months. Just prior to the death of Chief Justice Rehnquist in September 2005, the average age was 71. After Sonia Sotomayor was appointed in August 2009, the average age at which current justices were appointed was about 53 years old.

text: The longest period of time in which one group of justices has served together occurred from August 3, 1994, when Stephen Breyer was appointed to replace the retired Harry Blackmun, to September 3, 2005, the death of Rehnquist, totaling 11 years and 31 days. From 1789 until 1970, justices served an average of 14.9 years. Those who have stepped down since 1970 have served an average of 25.6 years. The retirement age had jumped from an average of 68 pre-1970 to 79 for justices retiring post-1970. Between 1789 and 1970 there was a vacancy on the Court once every 1.91 years. In the next 34 years since the two appointments in 1971, there was a vacancy on average only once every 3.75 years. The typical one-term president has had one appointment opportunity instead of two.[104]

text: Commentators have noted that advances in medical knowledge "have enormously increased the life expectancy of a mature person of an age likely to be considered for appointment to the Supreme Court".[105] Combined with the reduction in responsibilities carried out by modern justices as compared to the early justices, this results in much longer potential terms of service.[105] This has led to proposals such as imposing a mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court justices[106] and predetermined term limits.[107]

text: Educational background[edit]

text: Although the Constitution imposes no educational background requirements for federal judges, the work of the Court involves complex questions of law—ranging from constitutional law to administrative law to admiralty law—and consequently, a legal education has become a de facto prerequisite to appointment on the Supreme Court. Every person who has been nominated to the Court has been an attorney.[7]

text: Before the advent of modern law schools in the United States, justices, like most attorneys of the time, completed their legal studies by "reading law" (studying under and acting as an apprentice to more experienced attorneys) rather than attending a formal program. The first justice to be appointed who had attended an actual law school was Levi Woodbury, appointed to the Court in 1846. Woodbury had attended Tapping Reeve Law School in Litchfield, Connecticut, the most prestigious law school in the United States in that day, prior to his admission to the bar in 1812. However, Woodbury did not earn a law degree. Woodbury's successor on the Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis, who received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1832, and was appointed to the Court in 1851, was the first Justice to bear such a credential.[108]

text: Associate Justice James F. Byrnes, whose short tenure lasted from June 1941 to October 1942, was the last justice without a law degree to be appointed; Stanley Forman Reed, who served on the Court from 1938 to 1957, was the last sitting justice from such a background. In total, of the 113 justices appointed to the Court, 48 have had law degrees, an additional 18 attended some law school but did not receive a degree, and 47 received their legal education without any law school attendance.[108] Two justices, Sherman Minton and Lewis F. Powell, Jr., earned a Master of Laws degree.[109]

text: The table below shows the college and law school from which each of the justices sitting as of  April 2017[update] graduated:

text:
Name

Appt. by

College

Law school

John Roberts (Chief Justice)

G.W. Bush

Harvard

Harvard

Anthony Kennedy

Reagan

Stanford

Harvard

Clarence Thomas

G.H.W. Bush

Holy Cross

Yale

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Clinton

Cornell

Columbia

Stephen Breyer

Clinton

Stanford

Harvard

Samuel Alito

G.W. Bush

Princeton

Yale

Sonia Sotomayor

Obama

Princeton

Yale

Elena Kagan

Obama

Princeton

Harvard

Neil Gorsuch

Trump

Columbia

Harvard

text: Professional background[edit]

text: Not only have all justices been attorneys, nearly two thirds had previously been judges.[7] As of  2017[update], eight of the nine sitting justices previously served as judges of the United States Courts of Appeals, while Justice Elena Kagan served as Solicitor General, the attorney responsible for representing the federal government in cases before the Court. Few justices have a background as criminal defense lawyers, and Thurgood Marshall is reportedly the last justice to have had a client in a death penalty case.[110]

text: Historically, justices have come from some tradition of public service; only George Shiras, Jr. had no such experience.[111] Relatively few justices have been appointed from among members of Congress. Six were members of the United States Senate at the time of their appointment,[112][113] while one was a sitting member of the House of Representatives.[114] Six more had previously served in the Senate. Three have been sitting governors.[112][115] Only one, William Howard Taft, had been President of the United States.[116] The last justice to have held elected office was Sandra Day O'Connor, who was elected twice to the Arizona State Senate after being appointed there by the governor.

text: Financial means[edit]

text: The financial position of the typical Supreme Court Justice has been described as "upper-middle to high social status: reared in nonrural but not necessarily urban environment, member of a civic-minded, politically active, economically comfortable family".[108] Charles A. Beard, in his An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States, profiled those among the justices who were also drafters of the Constitution.

text: James Wilson, Beard notes, "developed a lucrative practice at Carlisle" before becoming "one of the directors of the Bank of North America on its incorporation in 1781".[117] A member of the Georgia Land Company, Wilson "held shares to the amount of at least one million acres".[118] John Blair was "one of the most respectable men in Virginia, both on account of his Family as well as fortune".[119] Another source notes that Blair "was a member of a prominent Virginia family. His father served on the Virginia Council and was for a time acting Royal governor. His granduncle, James Blair, was founder and first president of the College of William and Mary."[120] John Rutledge was elected Governor of South Carolina at a time when the Constitution of that state set, as a qualification for the office, ownership of "a settled plantation or freehold ... of the value of at least ten thousand pounds currency, clear of debt".[121] Oliver Ellsworth "rose rapidly to wealth and power in the bar of his native state" with "earnings... unrivalled in his own day and unexampled in the history of the colony", developing "a fortune which for the times and the country was quite uncommonly large".[122] Bushrod Washington was the nephew of George Washington, who was at the time of the younger Washington's appointment the immediate past President of the United States and one of the wealthiest men in the country.[123]

text: "About three-fifths of those named to the Supreme Court personally knew the President who nominated them".[82] There have been exceptions to the typical portrait of justices growing up middle class or wealthy. For example, the family of Sherman Minton went through a period of impoverishment during his childhood, resulting from the disability of his father due to a heat stroke.[124]

text: In 2008, seven of the nine sitting justices were millionaires, and the remaining two were close to that level of wealth.[125] Historian Howard Zinn, in his 1980 book A People's History of the United States, argues that the justices cannot be neutral in  matters between rich and poor, as they are almost always from the upper class.[126] Chief Justice Roberts is the son of an executive with Bethlehem Steel; Justice Stevens was born into a wealthy Chicago family;[127] and Justices Kennedy and Breyer both had fathers who were successful attorneys. Justices Alito and Scalia both had educated (and education-minded) parents: Scalia's father was a highly educated college professor and Alito's father was a high school teacher before becoming "a long-time employee of the New Jersey state legislature".[128]  Only Justices Thomas and Sotomayor have been regarded as coming from a lower-class background. One authority states that "Thomas grew up in poverty. The Pin Point community he lived in lacked a sewage system and paved roads. Its inhabitants dwelled in destitution and earned but a few cents each day performing manual labor".[129] The depth of Thomas' poverty has been disputed by suggestions of "ample evidence to suggest that Thomas enjoyed, by and large, a middle-class upbringing".[130]

text: Financial disclosures[edit]

text: Beginning in 1979, the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 required federal officials, including the justices, to file annual disclosures of their income and assets.[131] These disclosures provide a snapshot into the wealth of the justices, reported within broad ranges, from year to year since 1979. In the first such set of disclosures, only two justices were revealed to be millionaires: Potter Stewart[132] and Lewis F. Powell,[133] with Chief Justice Warren Burger coming in third with about $600,000 in holdings.[132] The least wealthy Justice was Thurgood Marshall.[132]

text: The 1982 report disclosed that newly appointed Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was a millionaire, and the second-wealthiest Justice on the Court (after Powell).[134] The remaining justices listed assets in the range of tens of thousands to a few hundred-thousand, with the exception of Thurgood Marshall, who "reported no assets or investment income of more than $100".[134] The 1985 report had the justices in relatively the same positions,[135] while the 1992 report had O'Connor as the wealthiest member of the Court, with Stevens being the only other millionaire, most other justices reporting assets averaging around a half million dollars, and the two newest justices, Clarence Thomas and David Souter, reporting assets of at least $65,000.[136] (In 2011, however, it was revealed that Thomas had misstated his income going back to at least 1989.[137][138][139])

text: The 2007 report was the first to reflect the holdings of John Roberts and Samuel Alito. Disclosures for that year indicated that Clarence Thomas and Anthony Kennedy were the only justices who were clearly not millionaires, although Thomas was reported to have signed a book deal worth over one million dollars.[140] Other justices reported holdings within the following ranges:[141][142]

text:
Justice
Lowest range
Highest range

John Roberts
$2,400,000
$6,200,000

John Paul Stevens
$1,100,000
$3,500,000

Anthony Kennedy
$365,000
$765,000

David Souter
?
?

Clarence Thomas
$150,000
$410,000

Ruth Bader Ginsburg
$5,000,000
$25,000,000

Stephen Breyer
$4,900,000
$16,800,000

Samuel Alito
$770,000
$2,000,000

Neil Gorsuch
$3,200,000
$7,300,000

text: The financial disclosures indicate that many of the justices have substantial stock holdings.[140] This, in turn, has affected the business of the Court, as these holdings have led justices to recuse themselves from cases, occasionally with substantial impact. For example, in 2008, the recusal of John Roberts in one case, and Samuel Alito in another, resulted in each ending in a 4–4 split, which does not create a binding precedent.[143] The Court was unable to decide another case in 2008 because four of the nine justices had conflicts, three arising from stock ownership in affected companies.[144]


document_title: List of Lucifer episodes

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text: List of Lucifer episodes

text: Series overview[edit]

text:
Season
Episodes
Originally aired

First aired
Last aired

1
13
January 25, 2016 (2016-01-25)
April 25, 2016 (2016-04-25)

2
18
September 19, 2016 (2016-09-19)
May 29, 2017 (2017-05-29)

3
26[6]
October 2, 2017 (2017-10-02)
TBA

text: Episodes[edit]

text: Season 1 (2016)[edit]

text:
No.
overall
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Prod.
code
U.S. viewers
(millions)

1
1
"Pilot"
Len Wiseman
Tom Kapinos
January 25, 2016 (2016-01-25)
276096
7.16[7]

Lucifer Morningstar, the retired ruler of Hell, owns a high-end night club in Los Angeles. When the pop star he tries to help is murdered in front of him by a drug dealer, he uses his powers of persuasion to assist Detective Chloe Decker in apprehending the true culprit behind the murder. All the while, he must deal with his brother, the dark-winged angel Amenadiel, who is putting pressure on him from their "father" to return to running Hell.

2
2
"Lucifer, Stay. Good Devil."
Nathan Hope
Joe Henderson
February 1, 2016 (2016-02-01)
4X6502
6.00[8]

Lucifer and Chloe work together again to solve a homicide, this time that of a movie star's son who was killed by an overeager paparazzo who frequently created volatile situations in order to get the "first scoop" on the story.

3
3
"The Would-Be Prince of Darkness"
Louis Milito
Jason Ning & Jenn Kao
February 8, 2016 (2016-02-08)
4X6510
5.47[9]

When a football star whom Lucifer convinced to lose his virginity is arrested for the murder of the girl with whom he slept, Lucifer works to prove his innocence.

4
4
"Manly Whatnots"
Matt Earl Beesley
Ildy Modrovich
February 15, 2016 (2016-02-15)
4X6503
5.13[10]

Chloe and Lucifer investigate a missing persons case involving a girl, Lindsay Jolson, who was involved with a pick-up artist. The investigation is complicated by Lucifer's repeated attempts to seduce Chloe in an effort to better understand her. Meanwhile, Amenadiel confronts a reluctant Mazikeen about Lucifer. At Lucifer's encouragement, Chloe shoots him in the leg. To Lucifer's bewilderment, he feels pain and bleeds.

5
5
"Sweet Kicks"
Tim Matheson
Sheri Elwood
February 22, 2016 (2016-02-22)
4X6504
4.86[11]

Chloe begs Lucifer to help her in a case involving an artist/high-end shoe designer who was once in a street gang. In doing so, Lucifer knowingly puts himself in danger, finding it exciting to test his mortality. He and Chloe are ultimately rescued from a hostile situation by Mazikeen. Meanwhile, Amenadiel surprises Dr. Martin by showing up at her office after hours, stating he is a fellow psychotherapist, who has just moved into the office next door. The two agree to have drinks and openly discuss patients.

6
6
"Favorite Son"
David Paymer
Jason Ning
February 29, 2016 (2016-02-29)
4X6505
3.91[12]

When a warehouse is robbed and the security guard murdered, it turns out that the stolen container belongs to Lucifer. He and Chloe then work to find the culprit, which Lucifer sees as protecting his reputation in the city. Meanwhile, Lucifer continues to struggle with his identity and Amenadiel continues to try to use Dr. Martin to get to Lucifer. It is revealed that the stolen shipping container holds Lucifer's wings.

7
7
"Wingman"
Eriq La Salle
Alex Katsnelson
March 7, 2016 (2016-03-07)
4X6506
4.24[13]

Lucifer continues the search for his wings and turns to Amenadiel for help. Amenadiel rejects at first, so Lucifer enlists Chloe to assist him. Meanwhile, Chloe asks Dan for help in investigating the Palmetto case in the hopes that she can find something to confirm her suspicions against Malcolm, the cop who is in coma. The wings are apparently about to be sold at an auction. Lucifer goes to the auction where Amenadiel shows up to help Lucifer. Lucifer regains his wings, but burns them to anger Amenadiel and halt his own return to his former throne as the King of Hell. Whereas, Chloe and Dan find a new lead on the Palmetto case.

8
8
"Et Tu, Doctor?"
Eagle Egilsson
Jenn Kao
March 14, 2016 (2016-03-14)
4X6507
3.86[14]

Feeling reborn, Lucifer celebrates his "rebirthday" at the Lux. And Malcolm, who wakes up from his coma, also celebrates his coming back. Chloe and Lucifer investigate the murder of a controversial therapist who advocates adultery as a means of saving relationships. Meanwhile, Lucifer shoehorns his own therapist, Dr. Linda Martin, into the case in an attempt to "solve" Chloe's issue with Dan. While solving the murder case, Lucifer realizes what is happening to him. Malcolm meets Chloe to explain that whoever shot him dead clearly doesn't have a problem shooting cops. Chloe and Lucifer then look for Malcolm's partner but find him dead with a suicide note, while Dan mysteriously meets with Malcolm.

9
9
"A Priest Walks into a Bar"
David Frazee
Chris Rafferty
March 21, 2016 (2016-03-21)
4X6508
3.82[15]

Lucifer and Chloe investigate when a priest asks for Lucifer's help in stopping a drug ring he believes is being headed by the counselor at a local youth center. However, a problem arises when the youth counselor is found dead and suspicion quickly falls on the priest. Meanwhile, Amenadiel meets with Malcolm to discuss the reason he brought him back from Hell, which is to kill someone.

10
10
"Pops"
Tara Nicole Weyr
Alex Katsnelson & Mike Costa
March 28, 2016 (2016-03-28)
4X6509
3.76[16]

Chloe and Lucifer investigate the poisoning death of the owner/chef at an upscale Mexican restaurant whom Lucifer admires. Suspicion falls on the owner's estranged son, a recovering drug addict, and the sous-chef, Anne, who would assume control of the restaurant if the son were out of the picture. The investigation is complicated by the surprise arrival of Chloe's mother, Penelope Decker, whom Lucifer also much admires. At home, Chloe and Penelope argue about Trixie, causing Trixie to run away to find Lucifer, but she ends up making friends with Mazikeen. Meanwhile, Malcolm reveals to Dan his plan to kill Lucifer, as directed by Amenadiel, and Mazikeen starts visiting Dr. Martin as a patient. Dan meets with Malcolm again saying that he couldn't let Malcolm kill Lucifer, so they end up fighting and Dan is knocked unconscious.

11
11
"St. Lucifer"
Mairzee Almas
Sheri Elwood & David McMillan
April 11, 2016 (2016-04-11)
4X6511
3.44[17]

Lucifer finds doing charitable work thrilling and begins to explore it by donating to a local charity in honor of its murdered founder, Tim Dunlear. Amenadiel finds unlikely companionship. Meanwhile, Dan, held captive by Malcolm, tries to escape and warn Lucifer before Malcolm gets to him. Also, Lucifer learns something new about his mortality.

12
12
"#TeamLucifer"
Greg Beeman
Ildy Modrovich
April 18, 2016 (2016-04-18)
4X6512
3.81[18]

When a member of a satanic church is killed, Lucifer is greatly disturbed that anyone would kill in his name. When it turns out that Malcolm is the one killing those people to honor him, Lucifer threatens torment but then he is interrupted by Amenadiel, which allows Malcolm to run away. They start fighting each other until they are stopped by Mazikeen. Later, Chloe stops by the Lux to talk to Lucifer, but instead finds the dead body of the street preacher who was seen arguing with Lucifer on TV. Elsewhere, Lucifer's realization that Chloe makes him physically vulnerable leads to him becoming paranoid.

13
13
"Take Me Back to Hell"
Nathan Hope
Joe Henderson
April 25, 2016 (2016-04-25)
4X6513
3.89[19]

Amenadiel saves Lucifer from being arrested by Chloe and they go to Amenadiel's office to talk. Dr. Martin shows up and advises the brothers. They go looking for Malcolm while Mazikeen helps Chloe hunt for Lucifer. Amenadiel finds Malcolm, they fight and Malcolm wounds Amenadiel with one of Mazikeen's daggers. Mazikeen saves the dying Amenadiel with the feather she kept from Lucifer's wings. Dan turns himself in clearing Lucifer of the murder. Chloe seizes Malcolm's money and he kidnaps Trixie to force her to give it back. At the exchange, Lucifer is fatally shot when he intervenes to try and save Chloe and Trixie. Lucifer prays to God offering to return to work for him if he saves Chloe. God restores Lucifer's powers and they kill Malcolm. A worried Lucifer tells Amenadiel that God has asked him to hunt for a soul who has escaped from Hell, their mother.

text: Season 2 (2016–17)[edit]

text:
No.
overall
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date [note 1]
Prod.
code
U.S. viewers
(millions)

14
1
"Everything's Coming Up Lucifer"
Nathan Hope
Joe Henderson
September 19, 2016 (2016-09-19)
T13.20051
4.36[20]

As Lucifer helps Chloe with a murder case involving a stand-in for a popular teen show actress, he becomes convinced that his mother's soul is occupying the body of the murderer to torment him. Lucifer tells Dr. Martin the story of how the union of his father and mother created the universe, but his mother was ultimately banished to Hell forever. Chloe tells Lucifer that she has some of his blood from the shooting and plans to test it to either prove or disprove his claims of being the devil. When Amenadiel finds out about this, he makes up a story for Chloe that portrays Lucifer as delusional, but human. Like Lucifer, Amenadiel starts to show signs of losing his angelic powers on Earth. Dan is reinstated to the police force, but gets demoted. Maze also returns from her absence, saying that she went to see a friend and wants to figure out how she fits into this world. At the end of the episode, Lucifer's mother shows up at his door, seeking help.

15
2
"Liar, Liar, Slutty Dress on Fire"
Louis Milito
Ildy Modrovich
October 3, 2016 (2016-10-03)
T13.20052
3.67[21]

Lucifer's mother is shown awaking in her new body in pain, finding a screwdriver lodged in her neck. She explains her story to Lucifer and they return to the hotel room that Charlotte last remembers being in, finding two murdered bodies. Lucifer is convinced his mother committed the crimes and gets Chloe and Dan to investigate. Lucifer later learns that the body his mother occupies is that of Charlotte Richards, a law firm's managing partner who had been having an affair with the man she recently promoted to senior partner. Cocaine is also found hidden in Charlotte's home, giving the team more suspects. The investigation ultimately shows that Charlotte was a victim and Charlotte was not the murderer. With the crime solved, Lucifer chastises Charlotte for abandoning him when he was banished to Hell. She replies that God initially wanted to end Lucifer's existence, but she convinced God to send him to Hell instead. Lucifer seems to accept the explanation and walks away, after which Charlotte looks to the sky with a sly grin.

16
3
"Sin-Eater"
Mairzee Almas
Alex Katsnelson
October 10, 2016 (2016-10-10)
T13.20053
3.67[22]

Chloe and Dan bring Lucifer in on a case involving a serial killer, whose methods of torturing victims bother Lucifer because he sees it as someone usurping his role. They find a connection to an online video-sharing company headed by Leila Simms, as the murder victims are revealed to have shot and posted videos of other people being humiliated. Back at the precinct, Chloe and Dan discuss their effect on Trixie, with Dan finally saying they need to get a divorce. Charlotte insists that Lucifer let her see her other son, Amenadiel. Although Lucifer refuses to help, Charlotte manages to speak to Amenadiel at Lux while she is there alone. Lucifer walks in on the discussion and comes to a decision on the punishment he will give his Charlotte for escaping Hell: she will be sentenced to live among the humanity that she so despises.

17
4
"Lady Parts"
Ben Bray
Sheri Elwood
October 17, 2016 (2016-10-17)
T13.20054
3.63[23]

Chloe, Dan, and Lucifer investigate a young woman's dead body found discarded in the woods. The woman has a triangle-shaped stamp on her wrist which becomes a key clue when they find another female victim with the same stamp. With Chloe depressed over her pending divorce, Maze, Dr. Martin, and Ella take her to a bar for girls night. Chloe sees a man who has the triangle stamp on his wrist and soon learns the stamp comes from an underground sex club. They discover a man named Yuri had a connection to both victims and photos on his phone help them find the killer. Elsewhere, Charlotte struggles to adjust to her domestic life, while Amenadiel agonizes over his diminishing angelic powers. He then learns of Lucifer's deal with God: return Charlotte to Hell in exchange for sparing Chloe's life. Amenadiel says Lucifer's punishment of Charlotte does not fulfill the deal and wonders if God will take back his half of the bargain. Just then, Chloe is shown driving when a car smashes into hers.

18
5
"Weaponizer"
Karen Gaviola
Jason Ning
October 24, 2016 (2016-10-24)
T13.20055
3.55[24]

Chloe's car accident is revealed to have been caused by Uriel, Lucifer's and Amenadiel's brother who has the special ability to foresee patterns. Chloe is not badly hurt and she goes right back to work, starting the case of murdered action star Wesley Cabot. Uriel tells Lucifer that the accident was a message: return Charlotte to Hell within 24 hours or Chloe will die. Lucifer visits Charlotte, telling her Uriel is a sign of God's anger and that others will come to take her to Hell if she doesn't go willingly. Charlotte refuses. Amenadiel and Uriel soon get in a fight. With Amenadiel's weakness and Uriel anticipating his moves, Uriel easily wins. Lucifer finally sees that Amenadiel has lost his powers. Lucifer then confronts Uriel and sees him with Azrael's dagger, acquired from the angel of death. Realizing Uriel intends to use the dagger to end Charlotte's existence permanently, Lucifer fights with his brother and loses. Maze arrives to battle with Uriel and, in the scuffle, Uriel loses hold of the dagger. Lucifer retrieves the instrument and plunges the blade into Uriel, which kills him for good, but not before he says something in Lucifer's ear.

19
6
"Monster"
Eagle Egilsson
Chris Rafferty
October 31, 2016 (2016-10-31)
T13.20056
3.42[25]

At a zombie-themed wedding, shots from an unseen source wound the groom and kill the bride. Chloe and Dan investigate and Lucifer later arrives hung over, still shaken from exterminating Uriel. Chloe reluctantly agrees to let Maze take Trixie out trick-or-treating so she can continue working the case. Maze reveals part of her true face to Trixie and Trixie thinks it's a costume. Amenadiel visits Charlotte, who praises the way he's always done what his Father asked. Amenadiel then starts to criticize God for allowing everything that has happened to the family. Chloe tracks the wedding sniper to a pharmaceutical company and Lucifer steps in front of the man's next intended victim, hoping to be shot himself. Chloe then ambushes the shooter and arrests him without incident. Lucifer visits Dr. Martin and confesses to killing his brother. He says he's always been a punisher, but never killed anyone before. As Lucifer tells the story, Dr. Martin interrupts, asking him to stop speaking in metaphors and insisting he be honest. Lucifer then reveals his true face to Dr. Martin to prove he is not lying, leaving her in a state of shock.

20
7
"My Little Monkey"
Tara Nicole Weyr
Jenn Kao
November 7, 2016 (2016-11-07)
T13.20057
3.52[26]

Chloe gets a case that hits close to home, when she learns the man convicted of killing Officer John Decker, her father, is being released from prison under supervision to attend his granddaughter's Christening. When the prisoner and his driver/guard subsequently end up murdered, Chloe and Dan reinvestigate and learn that the wrong man was in prison. During the case, Lucifer, still disgusted with himself, tries to look and act like Dan to feel more useful. Elsewhere, Dr. Martin says she has to drop Maze as a friend upon learning that she is a demon. Maze, meanwhile, is searching for a profession to fulfill her existence on earth. When she helps Chloe and the team find Warden Perry Smith, the man who ordered the killing of John Decker, Maze decides she will be a bounty hunter.

21
8
"Trip to Stabby Town"
Nathan Hope
Jeff Lieber
November 14, 2016 (2016-11-14)
T13.20058
3.87[27]

Chloe, Dan, and Lucifer take on the case of a female stabbing victim, who is revealed to have been a member of a yoga group that borders on a cult. Lucifer also asks Ella for help in his own case: finding out who stole Azrael's dagger from Uriel's grave. Ella helps lead Lucifer to Charlotte's law firm. When confronted, Charlotte reveals she released the dagger into the world to get God's attention. Chloe's and Lucifer's cases cross when several members of the yoga group are found stabbed to death with Azrael's blade resting in the final victim. Dan briefly holds the blade and threatens Lucifer for ruining his family, but Dan manages to break free of the blade's hold through sheer willpower. Later, Amenadiel tells Lucifer he wants things back in their proper places with Lucifer in Hell and Charlotte in Heaven, but Charlotte says she wants her entire family back in Heaven. Lucifer says he despised living in Hell, but the thought of Heaven is even worse. He says the only place he feels respected is on Earth. Meanwhile, Lucifer resumes his sessions with Dr. Martin, who begins to realize Lucifer is like a lot of her therapy patients: a damaged individual from a dysfunctional family.

22
9
"Homewrecker"
Greg Beeman
Mike Costa
November 21, 2016 (2016-11-21)
T13.20059
3.63[28]

Chloe, Dan, and Lucifer tackle the murder of a wealthy real estate mogul who owned the entire block that includes Lux. Their investigation turns up multiple people with motives, including the victim's son, his fiancée who comes from modest means, and a rival real estate developer who wants to tear down the whole block, including Lux, to put up a shopping mall. The developer is about to get her wish until Chloe manages to get the building that houses Lux declared a historic landmark. Meanwhile, Charlotte becomes friendly with Dan and starts to strongly believe that Chloe is the reason Lucifer wants to stay on Earth. Charlotte meets with a bomb maker and plans to blow up Chloe when she steps into her car.

23
10
"Quid Pro Ho"
Nathan Hope
Ildy Modrovich & Julia Fontana
November 28, 2016 (2016-11-28)
T13.20060
4.09[29]

Charlotte's attempt to kill Chloe is stopped by Amenadiel, who convinces her that eliminating Chloe would only cause Lucifer to be relentless in finding her killer. Lucifer later learns Charlotte tried to kill Chloe, but his thoughts soon turn to the trial of John Decker's murder, with Charlotte assigned to defend Warden Smith. Lucifer takes the stand as a witness and testifies that Chloe was first on the scene, putting a conviction at risk because Chloe provides reasonable doubt. Charlotte tries to convince Chloe to lie on the stand and paint Lucifer's testimony as false, which is the only way the warden could be convicted, but Chloe instead says Lucifer told the truth. Amenadiel later meets Chloe's mother Penelope, who is distraught over her husband's killer being set free. Amenadiel remembers meeting Penelope and John Decker 35 years ago, when he was sent by God to assist in a miracle, allowing Penelope to get pregnant. He then meets with Charlotte, telling her the story and stating that Lucifer's coming to Earth and meeting Chloe was predestined.

24
11
"Stewardess Interruptus"
Greg Beeman
Sheri Elwood
January 16, 2017 (2017-01-16)
T13.20061
3.97[30]

When the only apparent connection between two murder victims is the fact that they'd once shared Lucifer's bed, Chloe interviews all of his lovers from the past two months to try and find the culprit. Lucifer comes to the uncomfortable realization that he was never more to them than they were to him, in the process derailing his confidence in pursuing his burgeoning affections towards Chloe. Meanwhile, the actual connection in the murders is a mysterious figure for whom the victims were smuggling an unknown but deadly substance, which goes undiscovered by the police. Mazikeen continues to search for her own identity and learns a valuable truth from Dr. Linda, while Amenadiel tries to manipulate Lucifer towards Chloe at their mother's behest. In the end, Lucifer decides to stop pursuing Chloe, telling her that she is special and he is not worthy of her. His extolling of the things that make her special makes Chloe see that he has come to care for her as more than just a conquest and she kisses him.

25
12
"Love Handles"
Karen Gaviola
Alex Katsnelson
January 23, 2017 (2017-01-23)
T13.20062
4.17[31]

Lucifer is a bit confused when Chloe acts more carefree and relaxed in his presence, exchanging barbs with him. Lucifer and Chloe keep trying to track down the owner of the mysterious package after a college student is found dead due to an unknown poison. Clues lead them to Professor Carlisle, who had been chastised for saving himself and his dissertation from a burning vehicle, leaving the driver to die. Carlisle is conducting morbid "experiments" to prove all humans would make the choice he did. Meanwhile, Maze hears about Chloe's birth story from Charlotte, and agrees to meet with Lucifer to tell him the truth, in the very bar where Amenadiel met Penelope 35 years ago. As Maze changes her mind, Lucifer sees a photo of Amenadiel and a younger Penelope on the bar wall, and Charlotte confirms that Chloe is a miracle ordered by God. Lucifer goes to confront Chloe, and sees she has the symptoms of Carlisle's poison.

26
13
"A Good Day to Die"
Alrick Riley
Joe Henderson & Chris Rafferty
January 30, 2017 (2017-01-30)
T13.20063
4.19[32]

Lucifer and Chloe desperately search for an antidote to save her, learning that the Professor sourced the ingredients for his poisons from an amateur artist. Chloe collapses and is hospitalized, while Dan and Lucifer learn that the formula for the antidote was known only to Carlisle. With no other options, Lucifer has Maze and Linda stop his heart, allowing him to enter Hell and find Carlisle's soul, which is now eternally tormented by a recreation of the car accident. Lucifer offers him a chance at absolution in exchange for the formula, but Carlisle fails to assuage his guilt sufficiently. While waiting to be revived, however, Lucifer stumbles upon an illusion of Uriel, who forces Lucifer to kill him again and again. Charlotte sends herself to Hell to free him, but ends up succumbing to her own guilt, forcing Lucifer to drag her away. Upon being revived, Lucifer meets up with Dan and Ella, who have retrieved the ingredients, and creates the antidote. Charlotte tries to reconnect with her son, but he disowns her for deceiving him. When Chloe visits Lux later, she is shocked to find it closed for business with Lucifer nowhere to be found.

27
14
"Candy Morningstar"
Claudia Yarmy
Jenn Kao
May 1, 2017 (2017-05-01)
T13.20064
3.41[33]

Lucifer returns to Los Angeles after two weeks and introduces his wife Candy to Chloe and Dan. Chloe becomes upset, both with Lucifer's cavalier attitude and his decision to marry. When Ash Corrigan, a musician in a local band, turns up dead, Lucifer tries to help Chloe, but she pushes him away. Meanwhile, Amenadiel and Charlotte also discover that Lucifer is married and Charlotte suspects that Lucifer is planning some sort of revenge. When Maze suggests that Chloe needs a mediator, Chloe impersonates Candy as a means of getting an appointment with the mediator Ash saw for his divorce. Amenadiel confronts Lucifer for hurting Chloe's feelings. Lucifer tells him he's not trying to hurt her; rather, he's protecting her. The two discover that Doug, the drummer of Ash's band, is the murderer and take him into custody. Lucifer and Chloe agree to become partners again. It's revealed that Lucifer never married Candy, who turns out to be an actress who helped Lucifer in return for his saving her life in Las Vegas.

28
15
"Deceptive Little Parasite"
Brad Tanenbaum
Mike Costa & Julia Fontana
May 8, 2017 (2017-05-08)
T13.20065
3.25[34]

Lucifer retrieves Azrael's blade, which turns out to be the Flaming Sword that once guarded Eden and can cut through the Gates of Heaven, allowing Charlotte to return home. As the Lightbringer, Lucifer is the only one who can reignite the blade, but fails to do so as it can only be triggered by extreme emotion. Chloe and Dan investigate the murder of an admissions officer at a prestigious elementary school; despite uncovering embezzlement by the assistant dean, they are unable to find any leads. Chloe and Maze pose as a married couple and attend a party in honor of the deceased, where the real murderer, a teacher whose affair was discovered by the victim, is caught and subdued by Maze. Linda suggests to Lucifer that his inability to use the blade may be because he suppresses all of the pain and heartbreak in his life and, by channeling pain instead of anger, he is able to briefly ignite the Sword. It is revealed then that Charlotte is desperate to return to Heaven because her human form is weakening.

29
16
"God Johnson"
Sherwin Shilati
Jason Ning
May 15, 2017 (2017-05-15)
T13.20066
3.05[35]

Lucifer works a new case with Chloe, investigating the murder of an orderly at a mental institution. The suspect is a patient calling himself "God Johnson", who proves to be immune to Lucifer's powers and calls him Samael. Ella identifies him as Earl Johnson, a wealthy businessman who was committed after giving away all of his money. Lucifer pretends to be insane and gets himself committed. Upon seeing Johnson heal a bleeding woman that would have been the killer's second victim, Lucifer believes that God has come to earth. When he confronts his Father and learns that he has no knowledge of Charlotte escaping Hell, he and Linda break him out and set up a surprise date between the two. Amenadiel reveals to Maze that Lucifer is returning to Heaven, leaving her behind. God and Charlotte begin to reconcile, but Chloe arrives and takes him and Lucifer back to the hospital. The real killer, one of the nurses, abducts them. Lucifer and God make peace with one another while there. After escaping the asylum, Lucifer discovers that Earl's belt buckle is part of Azrael's dagger, and that God possessed Earl while he was wearing the belt in order to talk to Lucifer. Realizing this, Lucifer believes that God had only been attempting to manipulate him, and his hatred becomes even stronger.

30
17
"Sympathy for the Goddess"
Louis Milito
Joe Henderson
May 22, 2017 (2017-05-22)
T13.20067
3.03[36]

Lucifer, Amenadiel, and Charlotte cut a deal with Zeke Moore, a professional smuggler, for the last piece of the Blade. However, Zeke is robbed and murdered before he can turn over the piece. Lucifer gets Chloe assigned to the case, and they discover that the killer in question is Chet Ruiz, son of Bianca Ruiz, one of Charlotte's clients and a powerful criminal boss. Amenadiel and Dan bond upon discovering that they both feel unable to compete with Lucifer. Linda is stripped of her medical license for ethics violations in the God Johnson incident, and Lucifer unintentionally botches her appeal by revealing that he slept with her. An enraged Maze attacks him, and reveals how hurt she is that Lucifer manipulated her during their time on Earth. Bianca gets Charlotte to steal Chet's phone from the police, but Chloe finds out (also learning that Charlotte is the "ex-wife of Lucifer's dad") and instead gets her to take part in a sting operation that leads to Bianca's arrest. The piece turns out to be a rare tome that only Amenadiel can read. Maze forces the chairman of the ethics board to restore Linda's license, while Charlotte accidentally kills Chet by exposing him to her true form after he stabs her. Lucifer and Amenadiel discover that the latter's necklace contains the third piece of the Blade and that Amenadiel is their Father's favorite son.

31
18
"The Good, the Bad, and the Crispy"
Karen Gaviola
Ildy Modrovich
May 29, 2017 (2017-05-29)
T13.20068
3.31[37]

Charlotte calls in a favor to dispose of Chet's body, while Amenadiel insists that he be given some time to find himself before reassembling the Blade. Linda uses duct tape to hide Charlotte's wound, but when Lucifer arrives, he recognizes that his mother does not have much time before her human body "bursts". He assigns Maze to find Amenadiel while he works to cover up the murder. Unfortunately, Ella finds the cleaning company Charlotte hired, and Chloe confronts Lucifer about letting his personal problems interfere with work. Amenadiel refuses to reassemble the Blade, citing renewed loyalty to his Father. Charlotte escapes, apparently kills one of the cleaners, and forces Linda to reveal Lucifer's plan. She then threatens to kill Chloe unless the last piece of the Blade is delivered to her, which turns out to be in Dan's possession. Amenadiel uses his renewed angelic power to stop time, allowing Linda to be hospitalized. At the same time, the cleaner's real killer (Chet's brother) attempts to shoot Lucifer and Charlotte. With time stopped, Lucifer ignites the Blade and opens a rift leading outside the universe, where his mother can create her own world free from God's influence. Later, the old Charlotte is revived, having no memory of the time her body was inhabited. A visit to Linda at the hospital encourages Lucifer to reveal his true nature to Chloe. Before he can, however, he is knocked out cold and wakes up to find himself in the desert with his wings restored.

text: Season 3 (2017)[edit]

text: In March 2017, it was revealed that the final 4 episodes of the second season would be removed and put in the third season to air.[38][39]

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No.
overall
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date [note 2]
Prod.
code
U.S. viewers
(millions)

32
1
"They're Back, Aren't They?"
Karen Gaviola
Ildy Modrovich
October 2, 2017 (2017-10-02)
T13.20751
3.92[40]

Lucifer encounters a fleeing criminal and steals his clothes before getting the police to return him to Los Angeles. He asks Linda to remove his wings, but she refuses. Chloe brings him onto a new case: a dehydrated corpse found in the desert where Lucifer woke up, overseen by her new lieutenant: Marcus Pierce. The body turns out to be that of a wealthy man, and his close friend reveals that he paid "kidnappers" to prank the victim. While attempting to restore his wings, Amenadiel discovers a severed pair from Lucifer. Lucifer tries to show Chloe his true "devilface", but can't. To lure out the "kidnappers", Pierce instructs Dan to get himself kidnapped, which Lucifer arranges. However, it turns out that he is the real target, since he suspects the kidnappers to be behind his own abduction. He interrogates them and learns that the dead man was turned over to another kidnapper. The man reveals that he was hired by the "sinner man", a mysterious crime boss, to abduct Lucifer. Lucifer, whose wings grew back after he cut them off again, initially suspects that God restored his wings as punishment for sending Charlotte to a void but eventually comes to believe that it was "something darker" connected to the "sinner man."

33
2
"The One with the Baby Carrot"
Louis Milito
Joe Henderson
October 9, 2017 (2017-10-09)
T13.20752
3.33[41]

After failing to connect a recent murder to the "sinner man", Lucifer is told by Chloe that he has to either bring her evidence that he exists or allow the case to die. Pierce assigns them a new case: a murdered comedian who accused his rival, Bobby Lowe, of stealing his jokes. Amenadiel asks Linda to help him destroy Lucifer's severed wings. While attending one of Bobby's shows, Lucifer storms the stage and accidentally shoots him with a gun hidden in a hand puppet. However, it turns out that Bobby did steal the jokes, and wanted to be fired from the show. Pierce warns Lucifer that the "sinner man" is real, and killed someone close to him during his previous posting in Chicago. Lucifer and Dan run a sting operation, netting an old friend of Bobby's who reveals that the dead man was working on a new set with Sheila, Bobby's warm-up act. They find and arrest her, and Pierce makes an agreement with Lucifer to find the "sinner man" so long as he keeps Chloe out of it. Inspired by something Sheila said, Lucifer decides to focus not on the loss of his "devilface", but on his skill as a granter of favors.

34
3
"Mr. & Mrs. Mazikeen Smith"[42]
Tara Nicole Weyr[43]
Joe Henderson & Alex Katsnelson[43]
October 16, 2017 (2017-10-16)
T13.20069
TBD

35
4
"What Would Lucifer Do?"[44]
Eagle Egilsson[45]
Jason Ning[45]
October 23, 2017 (2017-10-23)
T13.20753
TBD

36
5
"Welcome Back, Charlotte Richards"[46]
Nathan Hope[47]
Chris Rafferty[47]
October 30, 2017 (2017-10-30)
T13.20754
TBD

TBA
TBA
TBA
Marisol Adler[48]
Jenn Kao[48]
TBA
T13.20756
TBD

TBA
TBA
"The Sin Bin"[49]
Greg Beeman
Sheri Elwood
TBA
T13.20757
TBD

TBA
TBA
"All About Her"[50]
Tara Nicole Weyr
Alex Katsnelson
TBA
T13.20758
TBD

TBA
TBA
"City of Angels?"[51]
Mark Tonderai
Jason Ning & Jenn Kao
TBA
T13.20070
TBD

TBA
TBA
"Off the Record"[52]
Eduardo Sánchez
Story by : Jen Graham Imada
Teleplay by : Chris Rafferty & Mike Costa
TBA
T13.20071
TBD

TBA
TBA
"Vegas with Some Radish"[53]
Karen Gaviola
Ildy Modrovich & Sheri Elwood
TBA
T13.20072
TBD

text: Ratings[edit]

text: Season 1 (2016)[edit]

text:
No.
Title
Air date
Rating/share
(18–49)
Viewers
(millions)
DVR
(18–49)
DVR viewers
(millions)
Total
(18–49)
Total viewers
(millions)

1
"Pilot"
January 25, 2016
2.4/7
7.16[7]
1.4
3.63
3.8
10.78[54]

2
"Lucifer, Stay. Good Devil."
February 1, 2016
2.0/6
6.00[8]
1.1
3.30
3.1
9.30[55]

3
"The Would-Be Prince of Darkness"
February 8, 2016
1.7/5
5.47[9]
1.1
3.00
2.8
8.46[56]

4
"Manly Whatnots"
February 15, 2016
1.6/4
5.13[10]
1.1
2.97
2.7
8.10[57]

5
"Sweet Kicks"
February 22, 2016
1.5/4
4.86[11]
1.1
2.97
2.6
7.83[58]

6
"Favorite Son"
February 29, 2016
1.3/4
3.91[12]
1.1
3.00
2.4
6.91[59]

7
"Wingman"
March 7, 2016
1.3/4
4.24[13]
1.0
2.80
2.3
7.04[60]

8
"Et Tu, Doctor?"
March 14, 2016
1.2/4
3.86[14]
1.1
3.05
2.3
6.91[61]

9
"A Priest Walks into a Bar"
March 21, 2016
1.2/4
3.82[15]
1.1
3.04
2.3
6.86[62]

10
"Pops"
March 28, 2016
1.2/4
3.76[16]
1.1
2.94
2.3
6.68[63]

11
"St. Lucifer"
April 11, 2016
1.1/4
3.44[17]
1.0
2.86
2.1
6.28[64]

12
"#TeamLucifer"
April 18, 2016
1.3/4
3.81[18]
0.9
2.68
2.2
6.49[65]

13
"Take Me Back to Hell"
April 25, 2016
1.3/4
3.89[19]
0.9
2.68
2.2
6.57[66]

text: Season 2 (2016–17)[edit]

text:
No.
Title
Air date
Rating/share
(18–49)
Viewers
(millions)
DVR
(18–49)
DVR viewers
(millions)
Total
(18–49)
Total viewers
(millions)

1
"Everything's Coming Up Lucifer"
September 19, 2016
1.3/4
4.36[20]
0.9
2.75
2.2
7.11[67]

2
"Liar, Liar, Slutty Dress on Fire"
October 3, 2016
1.1/4
3.67[21]
0.9
2.69
2.0
6.37[68]

3
"Sin-Eater"
October 10, 2016
1.0/3
3.67[22]
0.9
2.63
1.9
6.30[69]

4
"Lady Parts"
October 17, 2016
1.1/4
3.63[23]
0.7
2.30
1.8
5.92[70]

5
"Weaponizer"
October 24, 2016
1.0/4
3.55[24]
0.8
2.26
1.8
5.81[71]

6
"Monster"
October 31, 2016
0.9/3
3.42[25]
0.9
2.40
1.8
5.82[72]

7
"My Little Monkey"
November 7, 2016
1.0/3
3.52[26]
0.8
2.51
1.8
6.03[73]

8
"Trip to Stabby Town"
November 14, 2016
1.1/4
3.87[27]
0.7
2.26
1.8
6.13[74]

9
"Homewrecker"
November 21, 2016
1.0/3
3.63[28]
0.8
2.24
1.8
5.87[75]

10
"Quid Pro Ho"
November 28, 2016
1.1/4
4.09[29]
0.7
2.13
1.8
6.22[76]

11
"Stewardess Interruptus"
January 16, 2017
1.1/4
3.97[30]
0.8
2.28
1.9
6.25[77]

12
"Love Handles"
January 23, 2017
1.2/4
4.17[31]
0.7
2.23
1.9
6.40[78]

13
"A Good Day to Die"
January 30, 2017
1.2/4
4.19[32]
0.7
2.01
1.9
6.20[79]

14
"Candy Morningstar"
May 1, 2017
1.0/4
3.41[33]
0.7
2.09
1.7
5.50[80]

15
"Deceptive Little Parasite"
May 8, 2017
0.9/3
3.25[34]
0.7
1.91
1.6
5.16[81]

16
"God Johnson"
May 15, 2017
0.8/3
3.05[35]
0.7
2.05
1.5
5.10[82]

17
"Sympathy for the Goddess"
May 22, 2017
0.8/3
3.03[36]
0.7
2.07
1.5
5.10[83]

18
"The Good, the Bad, and the Crispy"
May 29, 2017
0.9/3
3.31[37]
0.7
2.00
1.6
5.30[84]

text: Season 3 (2017)[edit]

text:
No.
Title
Air date
Rating/share
(18–49)
Viewers
(millions)
DVR
(18–49)
DVR viewers
(millions)
Total
(18–49)
Total viewers
(millions)

1
"They're Back, Aren't They?"
October 2, 2017
1.1/4
3.92[40]
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD

2
"The One with the Baby Carrot"
October 9, 2017
0.9/3
3.33[41]
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD

3
"Mr. & Mrs. Mazikeen Smith"
October 16, 2017
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD

4
"What Would Lucifer Do?"
October 23, 2017
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD

text: Notes[edit]

text:
Jump up ^ Season 2 episodes 14–17 were broadcast one day earlier in Canada.
Jump up ^ Season three episodes were broadcast one day earlier in Canada.