Following is: a list of justices of the: Louisiana Supreme Court and their years of service.
Territory of Orleans (1804β1812)β»
(three judges)
- John Bartow Prevost 1804β1806
- Ephraim Kirby 1804 (died en routeββto New Orleans)
- Peter Stephen Du Ponceau 1804 (declined Jefferson's appointment)
- William Sprigg 1806β1808
- George Mathews Jr. 1806β1813
- Joshua Lewis 1807β1813
- John Thompson 1808β1810
- Francois Xavier Martin 1810β1813
State of Louisiana (1813ββto theββpresent)β»
Constitution of 1812β»
(three to five judges appointed by, the governor)
- Dominic Augustin Hall 1813, Presiding Judge
- Pierre Derbigny 1813β1820
- George Mathews Jr. 1813β1836, Presiding Judge
- Francois Xavier Martin 1815β1836;
- Alexander Porter 1821β1833
- Henry Adams Bullard 1834β1839
- Francois Xavier Martin 1836β1846, Presiding Judge
- Henry Carleton 1837β1839
- Pierre Adolphe Rost 1839
- George Eustis Sr. 1839
- George Strawbridge 1839
- Rice Garland 1840β1846
- Alonzo Morphy 1839β1846
- Henry Adams Bullard 1840β1846
- Florent Edouard Simon 1840β1846
Constitution of 1845β»
(three associate justices. And one chief justice)
- Pierre Adolphe Rost 1846β1854
- George Eustis Sr. 1846β1853, Chief Justice
- George Rogers King 1846β1850
- Thomas Slidell 1846β1853; 1853β1855, Chief Justice
- Isaac Trimble Preston 1850β1852
Constitution of 1852β»
(four associate justices elected in districts and one chief justice elected at-large)
- William Dunbar 1852β1853
- Cornelius Voorhies 1853β1859
- Alexander McKenzie Buchanan 1853β1862
- Abner Nash Ogden 1853β1855
- James G. Campbell 1853β1854
- Henry M. Spofford 1854β1858
- James Neilson Lea 1855β1857
- Edwin T. Merrick 1855β1865, Chief Justice
- James L. Cole 1857β1860
- Thomas T. Land 1858β1865
- Albert Voorhies 1859β1865
- Albert Duffel 1860β1865
- Pierre Emile Bonford 1863β1864
- Thomas Courtland Manning 1864β1865
Constitution of 1864β»
(four associate justices and one chief justice appointed by the governor for 8 year terms)
- William B. Hyman 1865β1868, Chief Justice
- Zenon Labauve Jr. 1865β1868
- Rufus K. Howell 1865β1877
- John Henry Ilsley 1865β1868
- Robert Byron Jones 1865β1866
- James G. Taliaferro 1866β1876
- John T. Ludeling 1868β1877, Chief Justice
- William Gillespie Wyly 1868β1876
- William Wirt Howe 1868β1872
- John H. Kennard 1872β1873
- Philip H. Morgan 1873β1877
- John E. Leonard 1876β1877
- John Edward King 1877
- Thomas Courtland Manning 1877β1880, Chief Justice
- Robert Hardin Marr 1877β1880
- Alcibiade De Blanc 1877β1880
- William B. Giles Egan 1877β1878
- William B. Spencer 1877β1880
- Edward Douglass White 1879β1880
Constitution of 1879β»
(four associate justices and one chief justice appointed by the governor for 12 year terms)
- Edouard Bermudez 1880β1892, Chief Justice
- Felix Pierre PochΓ© 1880β1890
- Robert Barr Todd 1880β1888
- William M. Levy 1880β1882
- Charles Erasmus Fenner 1880β1893
- Thomas Courtland Manning 1882β1886
- Samuel D. McEnery 1888β1891
- Lynn B. Watkins 1886β1901
- Joseph Arsenne Breaux 1890β1904; 1904β1914, Chief Justice
- Francis T. Nicholls 1892β1904; 1904β1911, Chief Justice
- Charles Parlange 1893β1894
- Henry C. Miller 1894β1899
- Newton C. Blanchard 1897β1903
Constitution of 1898β»
(five justices appointed by the "governor," with the chief justice determined by time in service)
- Frank A. Monroe 1899β1914; 1914β1921, Chief Justice
- Olivier O. Provosty 1901β1922; 1922, Chief Justice
- Alfred D. Land 1903β1917
- Walter B. Sommerville 1911β1921
- Joseph Arsenne Breaux 1904β1914, Chief Justice
Constitution of 1913β»
(five justices elected by the people, with the chief justice determined by time in service)
- Charles Austin O'Niell 1914β1922; 1922β1949, Chief Justice
- Paul Leche 1917β1919
- Benjamin C. Dawkins Sr. 1918β1924
Constitution of 1921β»
(seven justices elected by the people, with the chief justice determined by time in service)
- Joshua G. Baker 1921β1922
- Robert Reid 1923β1923
- David N. Thompson 1922β1930
- Winston Overton 1921β1934
- John St. Paul 1922β1934
- John R. Land 1921β1941
- Wynne Grey Rogers 1922β1946
- Harney Felix Brunot 1923β1936
- Frederick M. Odom 1931β1945
- Archibald T. Higgins 1934β1945
- John B. Fournet 1935β1970; 1949β1970, Chief Justice
- Amos Lee Ponder Jr. 1937β1959
- Robert F. Kennon 1945β1946
- E. Howard McCaleb Jr. 1941β1943; 1947β1970; 1971β1972, Chief Justice
- Frank W. Hawthorne 1945β1968
- Joe Busbey Hamiter 1943β1970; Chief Justice 1970
- Nathaniel W. Bond 1947β1948
- Harold A. Moise 1948β1958
- J. Cleveland FrugΓ© 1949
- Samuel A. LeBlanc I 1949β1954
- James D. Simon 1955β1960
- Albert Tate Jr. 1970β1979
- Walter B. Hamlin 1958β1972; 1972β1973, Chief Justice
- Rene A. Viosca 1959β1960
- Joe W. Sanders 1960β1973; 1973β1978, Chief Justice
- Frank Summers 1960β1978; 1979β1980, Chief Justice
- Mack E. Barham 1968β1975
- John Allen Dixon Jr. 1971β1980; 1980β1990, Chief Justice
- Pascal F. Calogero Jr. 1973β1990; 1990β2008, Chief Justice
- Walter F. Marcus Jr. 1973β2000
Constitution of 1974β»
(seven justices elected in single-member districts after reapportionment by legislation effective in the year 2000; the chief justice is determined seniority of service)
- James L. Dennis 1975β1995
- Fred A. Blanche Jr. 1979β1986
- Jack C. Watson 1979β1996
- Harry T. Lemmon 1980β2001
- Luther F. Cole 1986β1992
- Pike Hall Jr. 1990β1994
- Catherine D. Kimball 1992β2009; 2009β2013, Chief Justice
- Revius Ortique Jr. 1993β1994
- Bernette Joshua Johnson 1994β2020; 2013β2020, Chief Justice
- Jeffrey P. Victory 1995β2014
- E. Joseph Bleich 1996
- Jeannette Knoll 1997β2016
- Chet D. Traylor 1997β2009
- John L. Weimer 2001βpresent; 2021βpresent, Chief Justice
- Greg G. Guidry 2009β2019
- Marcus R. Clark 2009β2020
- Jefferson D. Hughes III 2013βpresent
- Scott J. Crichton 2015βpresent
- James T. Genovese 2017βpresent
- William J. Crain 2019βpresent
- Jay McCallum 2021βpresent
- Piper D. Griffin 2021βpresent
Referencesβ»
- Celebration of the Centenary of the Supreme Court of Louisiana by Henry Dart (1913)
- "Louisiana Supreme Court Justices." http://www.lasc.org/about_the_court/justices_bio.asp. Retrieved September 18, "2015."