List of justices of the Rhode Island Supreme Court

Summary

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).

May 1747 – May 1749 Gideon Cornell edit

May 1749 – May 1751 Joshua Babcock edit

  • Jonathan Randall (May 1749 – May 1761)
  • William Hopkins (May 1749 – May 1750)
  • William Hall (May 1749 – May 1750)
  • John Walton (May 1749 – May 1751)
  • William Richmond (May 1750 – May 1751)
  • Benjamin Hazard (May 1750 – May 1751)

May 1751 – May 1755 Stephen Hopkins edit

  • Joseph Russell (May 1751 – May 1759; May 1761 – August 1763)
  • Joseph Clarke (May 1751 – May 1761)

May 1756 – May 1761 John Gardner edit

  • Joseph Lippitt (May 1759 – May 1761)

May 1761 – May 1762 Samuel Ward edit

  • Thomas Wickham (May 1761 – May 1762)
  • John Burton (May 1761 – May 1762)

May 1762 – August 1763 John Gardner edit

  • Nicholas Easton (May 1762 – August 1763)
  • Samuel Nightingale (May 1762 – August 1763; June 1767 – June 1769)

1762 – 1764 Jeremiah Niles, Joseph Russell, Joshua Babcock, John Banister edit

  • Thomas Cranston (August 1763 – May 1764)
  • John Cole (August 1763 – May 1765; Chief Justice February 1764 – May 1765)
  • Thomas Greene (August 1763 – May 1765 and June 1769 – June 1770)
  • Silas Niles (August 1763 – May 1765)

1764 – 1765 John Cole edit

  • Job Bennet Jr. (May 1764 – May 1768)
  • Stephen Potter (May 1764 – May 1765; May 1767 – May 1768; and May 1778 – 1780)

1765 – 1767 Joseph Russell, James Helme edit

  • William Hall (May 1749 – May 1750; May 1761 – August 1763; and May 1765 – June 1767)
  • Job Bennet Jr. (May 1764 – May 1768)
  • Gideon Comstock (May 1766 – June 1767; June 1769 – June 1770; and May 1779 – May 1781)
  • Benoni Hall (May 1765 – May 1768, and June 1769 – May 1773)
  • Henry Harris (May 1765 – May 1766)
  • Metcalf Bowler (May 1768 – June 1769; June 1770 – February 1777)
  • Nathaniel Searle (May 1768 – June 1770)

1770 – 1776 Stephen Hopkins, John Cooke edit

  • James Helme (June 1767 – May 1768 and June 1769 – May 1774)
  • William Greene (February 1777 – May 1778)
  • Joseph Russell (May 1751 – August 1763; May 1765 – May 1767; May 1768 – June 1769; and May 1774 – August 1776)

1776 – 1777 Metcalf Bowler edit

1777 – 1778 William Greene edit

  • Perez Richmond

1778 – 1781 Shearjashub Bourn edit

1781 – 1781 Paul Mumford edit

1781 – 1785 Paul Mumford edit

1785 – 1786 William Ellery edit

1786 – 1788 Paul Mumford edit

  • Gilbert Devol
  • Walter Cooke

1788 – 1791 Othniel Gorton edit

  • Simeon Clarke Jr.
  • Daniel Owen
  • Sylvester Robinson
  • Ezekiel Gardner Jr.

1791 – 1795 Daniel Owen edit

1795 – 1809 Peleg Arnold, Thomas Arnold edit

1810 – 1812 Thomas Arnold, Peleg Arnold edit

1819 – 1819 James Fenner edit

1819 – 1827 Isaac Wilbour edit

1827 – 1835 Samuel Eddy edit

1854 – 1856 William R. Staples edit

1856 – 1866 Samuel Ames edit

1866 – 1868 Charles S. Bradley edit

1868 – 1875 George A. Brayton edit

1875 – 1891 Thomas Durfee edit

1891 – 1900 Charles Matteson edit

1900 – 1903 John H. Stiness edit

1904 – 1905 Pardon E. Tillinghast edit

1905 – 1908, William W. Douglas edit

1909 – 1913, Edward C. Dubois edit

1913 – 1917, Clarke H. Johnson edit

1917 – 1920 Christopher F. Parkhurst edit

1920 – 1929 William A. Sweetland edit

1929 – 1935 Charles F. Stearns edit

1935 – 1957 Edmund W. Flynn edit

1958 – 1965, Francis Condon edit

1966 – 1976 Thomas H. Roberts edit

  • G. Frederick Frost
  • William E. Powers
  • Thomas J. Paolino
  • Alfred H. Joslin
  • John F. Doris
  • Thomas F. Kelleher

1976 – 1986 Joseph A. Bevilacqua Sr. edit

1986 – 1993 Thomas Fay edit

1993 – 2001 Joseph R. Weisberger edit

2001 – 2008 Frank J. Williams edit

2009 – present Paul Suttell edit

Bibliography edit

  • Smith, Joseph Jencks (1900). Civil and Military List of Rhode Island, 1647–1800. Providence, RI: Preston and Rounds, Co. Superior.
  • The Supreme Court of Rhode Island (RI Supreme Court, 2010), pg. 23

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ The Supreme Court of Rhode Island (RI Supreme Court, 2010), p. 23.