List of justices of the Delaware Supreme Court

The following is a list of justices of the Delaware Supreme Court. From 1772 to 1950, Delaware did not have appointed Supreme Court justices. Instead, appeals from intermediate appellate determinations were taken to "The High Court of Errors and Appeals" – a panel made up of the state Chancellor, and all judges of the "Supreme Court" and of the Courts of Common Pleas who had not previously been involved with the case; under that system, the sole "Supreme Court" justice was the chief justice of Delaware.

In 1950, Delaware created a new state Supreme Court, with three judges appointed by the governor.

Colonial Supreme Court of the Lower Counties

Chief justices

Judge	Began active service	Ended active service	Notes
William Clarke	1684	1707	Also a justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
Jasper Yeates	1707	1710	–
John Healey	1710	1714	–
Richard Birmingham	1714	1717	–
Jasper Yeates	1717	1720	–
John French	1726	1727	–
David Evans	1727	1741	–
Samuel Chew	1741	1743	–
William Till	1743	1745	–
Ryves Holt	1745	1764	–
John Vining	1764	1770	–
Richard McWilliam Jr.	1773	1777	–

Associate justices

Judge	Began active service	Ended active service	Notes
Arthur Cook	1690	1699	–
Berkeley Codd	1710	after 1723	–
Richard Birmingham	1713	1717	Chief Justice from 1714 to 1717
Jehu Curtis	1743	1753	–
Nicholas Ridgely	1746	1755	–

Chief justices of the High Court of Errors and Appeals (1777–1951)

Judge	Began active service	Ended active service
William Killen	1777	1793
Richard Bassett	1793	1793
George Read	1793	1798
Kensey Johns	1799	1799
James Booth Sr.	1799	1828
Thomas Clayton	1828	1830
Samuel Maxwell Harrington	1830	1837
John M. Clayton	1837	1839
Richard H. Bayard	1839	1841
James Booth Jr.	1841	1855
Samuel Maxwell Harrington	1855	1857
Edward Gilpin	1857	1876
Joseph P. Comegys	1876	1893
Charles B. Lore	1893	1909
James Pennewill	1909	1933
Daniel J. Layton	1933	1945
Charles S. Richards	1945	1951

Justices of the Delaware Supreme Court (1951–present)

Judge	Began active service	Ended active service	Term as chief justice
Clarence A. Southerland	1951	1963	1951–1963
James M. Tunnell Jr.	1951	1954
Daniel F. Wolcott	1951	1973	1964–1973
Howard W. Bramhall	1954	1962
Charles L. Terry Jr.	1962	1964	1963–1964
James B. Carey	1963	1974
Daniel L. Herrmann	1965	1985	1973–1985
William Duffy	1973	1982
John J. McNeilly Jr.	1974	1986
Henry R. Horsey	1978	1994
William T. Quillen	1978	1983
Andrew G. T. Moore II	1982	1994
Andrew D. Christie	1983	1992	1985–1992
Randy J. Holland	1986	2017
Joseph T. Walsh	1985	2003
E. Norman Veasey	1992	2004	1992–2004
Carolyn Berger	1994	2014
Maurice A. Hartnett III	1994	2000
Myron T. Steele	2000	2014	2004–2014
Jack B. Jacobs	2003	2014
Henry du Pont Ridgely	2004	2015
Leo E. Strine Jr.	2014	2019	2014–2019
Karen L. Valihura	2014	present
James T. Vaughn Jr.	2014	2023
Collins J. Seitz Jr.	2015	present	2019–present
Gary Traynor	2017	present
Tamika Montgomery-Reeves	2019	2023
N. Christopher Griffiths	2023	present
Abigail LeGrow	2023	present

References

• History of the Delaware Supreme Court
• Henry R. Horsey and William Duffy, The Supreme Court of Delaware After 1951: The Separate Supreme Court
• Delaware Chief Justices – Leaders of the Judicial Branch
• Delaware State Courts – Judges who have served on the Superior Court bench