List of judges of the Supreme Court of Missouri

The following is a list of all of the individuals who have served on the Supreme Court of Missouri.

Missouri’s Supreme Court had three judges from 1820 until 1872, when it was increased to five. In 1890 the number of judges was increased to seven, which is still the standard.

Only the Chief Justice is referred to as “justice” while other members are referred to as “judge.” The chief justice is typically elected to a two-year term on a rotating basis by a vote of the Supreme Court judges.

Name	County	Term as Justice
Mathias McGirk	Montgomery	1821–1841
John Dillar Cook	Cape Girardeau	1821–1823
John Rice Jones	Washington	1821–1824
Rufus Pettibone	St. Louis	1823–1825
George Tompkins	Howard	1824–1825
Robert Wash	St. Louis	1825–1827
John Cummins Edwards	Cole	1837–1839
William Barclay Napton	Saline	1839–1849
William Scott	Cole	1841–1843
Priestly Haggin McBride	Monroe	1845–1848
John Ferguson Ryland	Lafayette	1849
James Harvey Birch	Clinton	1849
James Harvey Birch	Clinton	1850–1851
John Ferguson Ryland	Lafayette	1850–1857
Hamilton Rowan Gamble	St. Louis	1850–1855
William Scott	Cole	1851–1862
Abiel Leonard	Howard	1855–1857
John Crowley Richardson	St. Louis	1857–1859
William Barclay Napton	Saline	1857–1861
Ephraim Brevard Ewing	Ray	1859–1861
Barton Bates	St. Charles	1862–1865
John D. S. Dryden	Marion	1862–1865
David Wagner	Lewis	1865–1877
Walter L. Lovelace	Montgomery	1865–1866
Nathaniel Holmes	St. Louis	1865–1868
Thomas James Clark Flagg	Pike	1866–1868
James Baker	Greene	1868
Philemon Bliss	Buchanan	1868–1872
Warren Currier	St. Louis	1868–1872
Washington Adams	Cooper	1871–1874
William Barclay Napton	Saline	1873–1880
Ephraim Brevard Ewing	Ray	1873
Henry M. Vories	Buchanan	1873–1876
Thomas Adiel Sherwood	Greene	1873–1902
Edward Augustus Lewis	St. Louis	1874
Warwick Hough	Jackson	1875–1884
Elijah Hise Norton	Platte	1877–1888
John Ward Henry	Macon	1876–1888
Robert D. Ray	Carroll	1881–1890
Francis Marion Black	Jackson	1885–1894
Theodore Brace	Monroe	1887–1907
Shephard Barclay	St. Louis	1889–1898
James Britton Gantt	Henry	1891–1910
John Lilburn Thomas	Jefferson	1890–1892
George Bennett MacFarlane	Audrain	1890–1898
Gavon Drummond Burgess	Linn	1893–1910
Waltour Moss Robinson	Jasper	1895–1904
William Muir Williams	Cooper	1898
William Champe Marshall	St. Louis	1899–1906
Leroy D. Valliant	St. Louis	1899–1912
James David Fox	Madison	1903–1910
Henry Lamm	Pettis	1905–1914
Waller Washington Graves	Bates	1906–1928
Archelaus Marius Woodson	Buchanan	1907–1925
Franklin Ferriss	St. Louis	1910–1912
John Kennish	Jackson	1910–1913
John Chilton Brown	Carter	1911–1915
Henry Whitelaw Bond	St. Louis	1913–1919
Charles Breckenridge Faris	Pemiscot	1913–1919
Robert Franklin Walker	Morgan	1913–1930
James Thomas Blair	DeKalb	1915–1924
Charles G. Revelle	St. Francois	1915–1916
Fred Lincoln Williams	Jasper	1917–1920
John Isaac Williamson	Jackson	1919–1920
Richard Livingston Goode	St. Louis	1919–1922
Conway Elder	St. Louis	1921–1922
Edward Higbee	Adair	1921–1922
David Elmore Blair	Jasper	1921–1930
William T. Ragland	Monroe	1919–1932
John Turner White	Greene	1923–1932
Frank Ely Atwood	Carroll	1925–1934
Robert William Otto	Franklin	1925–1926
Ernest S. Gantt	Audrain	1927–1946
North Todd Gentry	Boone	1928
William Francis Frank	Adair	1929–1938
Berryman Henwood	Marion	1930–1932
George Robb Ellison	Nodaway	1931–1955
Charles Thomas Hays	Marion	1933–1942
Clarence Alexander Burney	Jackson	1933
Ernest Moss Tipton	Jackson	1933–1955
Charles A. Leedy, Jr.	Jackson	1933–1964
Walter D. Coles	St. Louis	1935
John Caskie Collet	Chariton	1935–1937
James Marsh Douglas	St. Louis	1937–1949
Raymond B. Lucas	Scott	1938
Albert M. Clark	Ray	1939–1950
Laurance M. Hyde	Mercer	1943–1966
Roscoe P. Conkling	Buchanan	1947–1954
Sidna Poage Dalton	Cape Girardeau	1950–1965
Frank Hollingsworth	Audrain	1950–1964
Henry J. Westhues	Howard	1954–1963
Henry I. Eager	Jackson	1955–1968
Clem F. Storckman	St. Louis City	1955–1970
Lawrence Holman	Randolph	1963–1977
Fred L. Henley	Pemiscot	1964–1978
James A. Finch, Jr.	Cape Girardeau	1965–1978
Robert True Donnelly	Laclede	1965–1988
Robert Eldridge Seiler	Jasper	1967–1982
June P. (J. P.) Morgan	Livingston	1969–1982
John E. Bardgett	St. Louis	1970–1982
Albert L. Rendlen	Marion	1977–1992
Joseph J. Simeone	St. Louis	1978–1979
Warren Dee Welliver	Boone	1979–1989
Andrew Jackson Higgins	Platte	1979–1991
George F. Gunn, Jr.	St. Louis	1982–1985
William Howard Billings	Dunklin	1982–1991
Charles Blakey Blackmar	St. Louis	1982–1992
Edward D. Robertson, Jr.	Cole	1985–1998
Ann K. Covington	Boone	1989–2001
John C. Holstein	Howell	1989–2002
William Duane Benton	Cole	1991–2004
Elwood L. Thomas	Clay	1991–1995
William Ray Price, Jr.	Jackson	1992-2012
Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr.	Cape Girardeau	1992–2008
Ronnie L. White	St. Louis	1995–2007
Michael A. Wolff	St. Louis	1998–2011
Laura Denvir Stith	Jackson	2001-present
Richard B. Teitelman	St. Louis City	2002-present
Mary Rhodes Russell	Marion	2004-present
Patricia Breckenridge	Vernon	2007-present
Zel Fischer	Atchison	2008-present
George W. Draper, III	St. Louis	2011-present
Paul C. Wilson	Boone	2012-present

References

• Official Manual, State of Missouri, 2005-2006. Jefferson City, MO:Secretary of State.