List of justices of the Rhode Island Supreme Court

This is a list of Associate Justices of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from 1747 to the present. The Justices are listed under the term of the Chief Justice sitting at the time of their appointments (for a complete list of the Chief Justices, see List of Chief Justices of the Rhode Island Supreme Court).

May 1747 – May 1749 Gideon Cornell

May 1749 – May 1751 Joshua Babcock

  • Jonathan Randall (May 1749 – May 1761)
  • William Hopkins (May 1749 – May 1750)
  • William Hall (May 1749 – May 1750)
  • John Walton (May 1749 – May 1751)
  • William Richmond (May 1750 – May 1751)
  • Benjamin Hazard (May 1750 – May 1751)

May 1751 – May 1755 Stephen Hopkins

  • Joseph Russell (May 1751 – May 1759; May 1761 – August 1763)
  • Joseph Clarke (May 1751 – May 1761)

May 1756 – May 1761 John Gardner

  • Joseph Lippitt (May 1759 – May 1761)

May 1761 – May 1762 Samuel Ward

  • Thomas Wickham (May 1761 – May 1762)
  • John Burton (May 1761 – May 1762)

May 1762 – August 1763 John Gardner

  • Nicholas Easton (May 1762 – August 1763)
  • Samuel Nightingale (May 1762 – August 1763; June 1767 – June 1769)

1762 – 1764 Jeremiah Niles, Joseph Russell, Joshua Babcock, John Banister

1764 – 1765 John Cole

1765 – 1767 Joseph Russell, James Helme

1770 – 1776 Stephen Hopkins, John Cooke

1776 – 1777 Metcalf Bowler

1777 – 1778 William Greene

  • Perez Richmond

1778 – 1781 Shearjashub Bourn

1781 – 1781 Paul Mumford

1781 – 1785 Paul Mumford

1785 – 1786 William Ellery

  • Thomas Arnold
  • Joseph Hazard

1786 – 1788 Paul Mumford

  • Gilbert Devol
  • Walter Cooke

1788 – 1791 Othniel Gorton

  • Simeon Clarke Jr.
  • Daniel Owen
  • Sylvester Robinson
  • Ezekiel Gardner Jr.

1791 – 1795 Daniel Owen

  • Carder Hazard
  • William Taggart
  • Joshua Bicknall

1795 – 1809 Peleg Arnold, Thomas Arnold

  • Joseph Hoxsie
  • George Brown
  • Thomas Holden
  • John Allen
  • Joseph Reynolds
  • Henry Remington
  • William Marchant
  • William Anthony
  • Benjamin Johnson

1810 – 1812 Thomas Arnold, Peleg Arnold

1819 – 1819 James Fenner

1819 – 1827 Isaac Wilbour

1827 – 1835 Samuel Eddy

1854 – 1856 William R. Staples

1856 – 1866 Samuel Ames

1868 – 1875 George A. Brayton

1875 – 1891 Thomas Durfee

1891 – 1900 Charles Matteson

  • Horatio Rogers
  • William W. Douglas

1900 – 1903 John H. Stiness

1904 – 1905 Pardon E. Tillinghast

  • Clarke H. Johnson

1909 – 1913 Edward C. Dubois

  • Christopher F. Parkhurst
  • William H. Sweetland
  • Darius Baker

1917 – 1920 Clarke F. Parkhurst

  • Charles F. Stearns

1920 – 1929 William A. Sweetland

  • Walter B. Vincent
  • Elmer J. Rathbun
  • John W. Sweeney
  • Chester W. Barrows

1929 – 1935 Charles F. Stearns

  • J. Jerome Hahn
  • John S. Murdock

1935 – 1957 Edmund W. Flynn

1966 – 1976 Thomas H. Roberts

  • F. Frederick Frost
  • William E. Powers
  • Thomas J. Paolino
  • Alfred H. Joslin
  • John F. Doris
  • Thomas F. Kelleher

1976 – 1986 Joseph A. Bevilacqua

1993 – 2001 Joseph R. Weisberger

2001 – 2008 Frank J. Williams

2009 – present Paul A. Suttell

Bibliography

  • Smith, Joseph Jencks (1900). Civil and Military List of Rhode Island, 1647–1800. Providence, RI: Preston and Rounds, Co. Superior.
  • The Supreme Court of Rhode Island (RI Supreme Court, 2010), pg. 23

See also

References

  1. The Supreme Court of Rhode Island (RI Supreme Court, 2010), p. 23.
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