List of justices of the High Court of Australia

Current Justices

Name	State	Date appointed	Mandatory retirement	Prime Minister at time of appointment	Previous judicial posting
Chief Justice Murray Gleeson	New South Wales	22 May, 1998	30 August, 2008	John Howard, Liberal Party of Australia	Supreme Court of New South Wales
Justice Michael McHugh^	New South Wales	14 February, 1989	1 November, 2005	Bob Hawke, Australian Labor Party	Supreme Court of New South Wales
Justice William Gummow	New South Wales	21 April, 1995	9 October, 2012	Paul Keating, Australian Labor Party	Federal Court of Australia
Justice Michael Kirby	New South Wales	6 February, 1996	18 March, 2009	Paul Keating, Australian Labor Party	Supreme Court of New South Wales
Justice Kenneth Hayne	Victoria	22 September, 1997	5 June, 2015	John Howard, Liberal Party of Australia	Supreme Court of Victoria
Justice Ian Callinan	Queensland	3 February, 1998	1 September, 2007	John Howard, Liberal Party of Australia	None
Justice John Dyson Heyson	New South Wales	1 February, 2003	1 March, 2013	John Howard, Liberal Party of Australia	Supreme Court of New South Wales

^ To be replaced by Justice Susan Crennan, formally of the Federal Court of Australia, from 1 November 2005

Name	State	Term as Chief Justice	Prime Minister at time of appointment as Chief Justice
Sir Samuel Griffith	Queensland	5 October, 1903 – 17 October, 1919	Alfred Deakin, Protectionist Party
Sir Adrian Knox	New South Wales	18 October, 1919 – 31 March, 1930	William Morris Hughes, Nationalist Party
Sir Isaac Isaacs*	Victoria	2 April, 1930 – 21 January, 1931	James Scullin, Australian Labor Party
Sir Frank Gavan Duffy*	Victoria	22 January, 1931 – 1 October, 1935	James Scullin, Australian Labor Party
Sir John Latham	Victoria	11 October, 1935 – 7 April, 1952	Joseph Lyons, United Australia Party
Sir Owen Dixon*	Victoria	18 April, 1952 – 13 April, 1964	Sir Robert Menzies, Liberal Party of Australia
Sir Garfield Barwick	New South Wales	27 April, 1964 – 11 February, 1981	Sir Robert Menzies, Liberal Party of Australia
Sir Harry Gibbs*	Queensland	12 February, 1981 –5 February, 1987	Malcolm Fraser, Liberal Party of Australia
Sir Anthony Mason*	New South Wales	6 February, 1987 – 20 April, 1995	Bob Hawke, Australian Labor Party
Sir Gerard Brennan*	Queensland	21 April, 1995 – 21 May, 1998	Paul Keating, Australian Labor Party

* Elevated to Chief Justice while serving on the High Court.