List of Justices of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Following is a list of Justices of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, including justices of the Provincial Court.
Chief Justices
- Capt. William Crispin, appointed Chief Justice by William Penn in 1684 but died at sea on the way to Philadelphia.
- Dr. Nicholas Moore, Chief Justice 1684
- William Clarke, 1684, Chief Justice 1703
- Arthur Cooke, 1685, Chief Justice 1686
- John Simcock, 1686, Chief Justice 1690
- Joseph Growden, 1690, Chief Justice 1707
- John Guest, Chief Justice 1701
- John Guest, 1704, Chief Justice 1705
- Roger Mempesson, Chief Justice 1706
- David Lloyd, Chief Justice 1717
- Jeremiah Langhorne, 1726, Chief Justice 1739
- James Logan, Chief Justice 1731
- William Allen, Chief Justice 1750
- Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice 1774
- Thomas McKean, appointed Chief Justice 1777, elected 1784 and 1791
- Edward Shippen (III), 1791, Chief Justice 1799
- William Bradford Jr., 1791
- William Tilghman, Chief Justice 1806
- John Bannister Gibson, 1816, Chief Justice 1838
- Jeremiah S. Black, Chief Justice 1851
- Ellis Lewis, 1851, Chief Justice 1855
- Walter H. Lowrie, 1851, Chief Justice 1857
- George W. Woodward, 1852, Chief Justice 1863
- James Thompson, 1857, Chief Justice 1867
- John M. Read, 1858, Chief Justice 1872
- Daniel Agnew, 1863, Chief Justice 1873
- George Sharswood, 1867, Chief Justice 1879
- Ulysses Mercur, 1872, Chief Justice 1883
- Isaac G. Gordon, 1873, Chief Justice 1887
- Edward M. Paxson, 1875, Chief Justice 1889
- James P. Sterrett, 1877, Chief Justice 1893
- Henry Green, 1879, Chief Justice 1900
- J. Brewster McCollum, 1888, Chief Justice 1900
- James T. Mitchell, 1888, Chief Justice 1903
- D. Newlin Fell, 1894, Chief Justice 1910
- J. Hay Brown, 1899, Chief Justice 1915
- Robert von Moschzisker, 1910, Chief Justice 1921
- Robert S. Frazer, 1915, Chief Justice 1930
- John W. Kephart, 1919, Chief Justice 1936
- William I. Schaffer, 1920, Chief Justice 1940
- George W. Maxey, 1930, Chief Justice 1943
- James B. Drew, 1931, Chief Justice 1950
- Horace Stern, 1936, Chief Justice 1952
- Charles Alvin Jones, 1945, Chief Justice 1956
- John C. Bell, 1950, Chief Justice 1961
- Benjamin R. Jones, 1957, Chief Justice 1972
- Michael J. Eagen, 1960, Chief Justice 1977
- Henry X. O'Brien, 1962, Chief Justice 1980
- Robert N. C. Nix, Jr., 1972, Chief Justice 1986
- John P. Flaherty Jr., 1979, Chief Justice 1996
- Samuel J. Roberts, Chief Justice 1983
- Ralph J. Cappy, 1990, Chief Justice 1998
- Ronald D. Castille, 1994, Chief Justice 2008
Other justices
- Anthony Morris, 1694
- Edward Shippen, circa 1699
- Caleb Pusey, 1701
- William Trent, 1704
- Richard Hill, 1711
- Thomas Griffitts, 1739
- Thomas Willing, 1767
- John Morton, 1774
- William Augustus Atlee, 1777
- John Evans, 1777
- George Bryan, 1787
- William Bradford Jr., 1791
- Thomas Smith, 1794
- Hugh Henry Brackenridge, 1800
- John Tod, 1827
- Frederick Smith, 1828
- John Ross, 1830
- Thomas Burnside, 1845
- Richard Coulter, appointed 1846, elected 1847
- George Chambers, 1851
- John C. Knox, 1853
- James Armstrong, 1857
- William Strong, 1857
- S.L. Mestrezat, 1900
- Michael A. Musmanno, 1952
- Herbert B. Cohen, 1957
- Curtis Bok, 1958
- Rolf Larsen, 1978 (impeached and removed from office, 1994)
- Russell M. Nigro, 1996 (defeated for retention, 2005)
- Cynthia A. Baldwin, (appointed by Governor Rendell, 2006)
- James J. Fitzgerald III, (appointed by Governor Rendell, 2007)
- Jane Cutler Greenspan, (appointed by Governor Rendell, 2008)