List of Justices of the Louisiana Supreme Court

Following is a list of former Justices of the Louisiana Supreme Court and their years of service.

Territory of Orleans (1804–1812)

(three judges)

• John Bartow Prevost 1804–1808
• Ephraim Kirby 1804 (died en route to New Orleans)
• Peter Stephen Duponceau 1804 (declined Jefferson's appointment)
• William Sprigg 1805–1807
• George Mathews, Jr. 1805–1813
• Joshua Lewis 1806–1813
• John Thompson 1808–1810
• Francois Xavier Martin 1810–1813

State of Louisiana (1813-Present)

Constitution of 1812

(three to five judges appointed by the governor)

• Dominic Augustin Hall 1813
• Pierre Derbigny 1813-1821 (Chief Judge from 1813–1821)
• George Mathews, Jr. 1813-1836 (Chief Judge from 1822–1836)
• Francois Xavier Martin 1815-1846 (Chief Judge from 1836–1846)
• Alexander Porter, Jr. 1821–1834
• Henry Adams Bullard 1835–1839
• Henry Carlton 1837–1839
• Pierre Adolphe Rost 1839
• George Eustis, Sr. 1839
• George Strawbridge 1839
• Rice Garland 1840–1846
• Alonzo Morphy 1840–1846
• Henry Adams Bullard 1840–1846
• Edward Simpson 1840–1846

Constitution of 1845

(three associate justices and one chief justice)

• Pierre Adolphe Rost 1846–1854
• George Eustis 1846–1854
• George Rogers King 1846–1850
• Thomas Slidell (Chief Justice) 1846–1856
• Isaac Trimble Preston 1850–1853

Constitution of 1852

(four associate justices elected in districts and one chief justice elected at-large)

• William Dunbar 1852–1853
• Cornelius Voorhies 1854–1860
• Alexander McKenzie Buchanan 1854
• Abner Nash Ogden 1854–1856
• James G. Campbell 1854–1855
• Henry Spofford 1855–1859
• James Neilson Lea 1856–1857
• Edwin T. Merrick 1856–1866
• James L. Cole 1857–1860
• Thomas Thompson Land 1860–1866
• Albert Voorhies 1860–1866
• Albert Duffel 1860–1864
• Thomas Courtland Manning 1864–1865

Constitution of 1864

(four associate justices and one chief justice appointed by the governor for 8 year terms)

• Peter Emile Bonford 1865–1866
• William B. Hyman 1866–1869
• Zenon Labauve, Jr. 1866–1869
• Rufus K. Howell 1866–1877
• John Henry Ilsley 1866–1869
• Robert Byron Jones 1866
• James G. Taliaferro 1867–1877
• John T. Ludeling 1869–1877
• William Gillespie Wyly 1869–1877
• William Wirt Howe 1869–1873
• John H. Kennard 1873–1874
• Philip Hickey Morgan 1873–1877
• John Edwards Leonard 1874
• John Edward King 1877
• Thomas Courtland Manning 1877–1880
• Robert Hardin Marr 1877–1880
• Alcibiade de Blanc 1877–1880
• William Giles Egan 1877–1879
• William Brainerd Spencer 1877–1880
• Edward Douglass White 1879-80

Constitution of 1879

(four associate justices and one chief justice appointed by the governor for 12 year terms)

• John E. King 1880
• Edward Bermudez 1880–1891
• Felix P. Poché 1880–1890
• Robert Barr Todd 1880–1888
• Henry A. Lazarus 1880
• William Mallory Levy 1880–1883
• Charles E. Fenner 1880–1893
• Thomas Courtland Manning 1882–1888
• Lynn B. Watkins 1886
• Samuel D. McEnery 1888–1891
• Lynn B. Watkins 1889–1901
• Joseph A. Breaux 1890–1899
• Francis T. Nicholls 1892–1911
• Charles Parlange 1893–1894
• Henry C. Miller 1894–1897
• Newton C. Blanchard 1897–1901

Constitution of 1898

(five justices appointed by the governor, with the chief justice determined by time in service)

• Frank A. Monroe 1899–1922
• Olivier O. Provosty 1901–1923
• Alfred D. Land 1904–1917
• Walter B. Sommerville 1911–1922
• Luther Hall 1912

Constitution of 1913

(five justices elected by the people, with the chief justice determined time in service)

• Charles Austin O'Neil 1914–1950
• Paul Leche 1917–1919
• Ben C. Dawkins, Sr. 1919–1931

Constitution of 1921

(seven justices elected by the people, with the chief justice determined time in service)

• Joshua G. Baker 1922–1923
• Robert Reid 1923–1924
• David N. Thompson 1924–1931
• Winston Overton 1931–1935
• John St. Paul 1931–1935
• John R. Land 1931–1941
• Wynne Grey Rogers 1922–1946
• Harney Felix Brunot 1931–1937
• Fred R. Odom 1931–1945
• Archibald T. Higgins 1931–1946
• John B. Fournet 1935-1970 (Chief Justice 1949–1970)
• Amos Lee Ponder, Jr. 1937-?
• Harmon Caldwell Drew ?-1940
• Robert F. Kennon 1940–1942
• E. Howard McCaleb, Jr. 1941–1943
• Francis Willard Hawthorne 1941-?
• Harmon Caldwell Drew 1942–1945
• Joe Busbey Hamiter 1943-?
• Robert F. Kennon 1945–1947
• E. Howard McCaleb, Jr. 1947-?
• Nathaniel W. Bond 1947–1948
• Harold A Moise 1948-?
• J. Cleveland Fruge 1949
• Sam A. LeBlanc 1950-?
• James D. Simon 1955–1960
• Albert A. Tate, Jr. 1958-?
• Walter B. Hamlin 1958-?
• John Allen Dixon, Jr. 1971-80
• Pascal F. Calogero, Jr. 1973–2008

Constitution of 1974

(seven justices elected in single-member districts, with the chief justice determined time in service)

• Peter Hill Beer 1978–1979
• Edwin Edwards 1980
• Revius Ortique, Jr 1992–1994