List of justices of the Rhode Island Supreme Court
Appearance
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).
1747 - 1749 Gideon Cornell
1749 - 1751 Joshua Babcock
1751 - 1755 Stephen Hopkins
1756 - 1761 John Gardner
1761 - 1762 Samuel Ward
1762 - 1763 John Gardner
1762 - 1764 Jeremiah Niles, Joseph Russell, Joshua Babcock, John Banister
1764 - 1765 John Cole
1765 - 1767 Joseph Russell, James Helme
- William Hall
- Job Bennet, Jr.
- Gideon Comstock
- Benoni Hall
- Henry Harris
- Metcalf Bowler
- Nathanial Searle
1770 - 1776 Stephen Hopkins, John Cooke
1776 - 1777 Metcalf Bowler
1777 - 1778 William Greene
1778 - 1781 Shearjashub Bourn
1781 - 1781 Paul Mumford
- William Ellery (declined)
- Peter Phillips
- Rufus Hopkins
1781 - 1785 Paul Mumford
1785 - 1786 William Ellery
1786 - 1788 Paul Mumford
1788 - 1791 Othniel Gorton
1791 - 1795 Daniel Owen
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
- Dutee Arnold
- John DeWolf
- Luke Drury
- Wheeler Martin
- Samuel Randall
- Isaac Fiske
- Nathan Brown
- Samuel Eddy
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
1900 - 1903 John H. Stiness
1904 - 1905 Pardon E. Tillinghast
1909 - 1913 Edward C. Dubois
1917 - 1920 Clarke F. Parkhurst
1920 - 1929 William A. Sweetland
1929 - 1935 Charles F. Stearns
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.
- The Supreme Court of Rhode Island (RI Supreme Court, 2010), pg. 23
See also
References
- ^ The Supreme Court of Rhode Island (RI Supreme Court, 2010), p. 23.