List of justices of the Rhode Island Supreme Court

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

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May 1749 – May 1751 Joshua Babcock

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May 1751 – May 1755 Stephen Hopkins

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May 1756 – May 1761 John Gardner

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May 1761 – May 1762 Samuel Ward

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May 1762 – August 1763 John Gardner

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1764 – 1765 John Cole

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1765 – 1767 Joseph Russell, James Helme

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1770 – 1776 Stephen Hopkins, John Cooke

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  • 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

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1777 – 1778 William Greene

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1781 – 1781 Paul Mumford

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1781 – 1785 Paul Mumford

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1785 – 1786 William Ellery

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1786 – 1788 Paul Mumford

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1788 – 1791 Othniel Gorton

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1791 – 1795 Daniel Owen

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1795 – 1809 Peleg Arnold, Thomas Arnold

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1810 – 1812 Thomas Arnold, Peleg Arnold

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1819 – 1819 James Fenner

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1819 – 1827 Isaac Wilbour

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1827 – 1835 Samuel Eddy

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1856 – 1866 Samuel Ames

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1868 – 1875 George A. Brayton

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1875 – 1891 Thomas Durfee

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1891 – 1900 Charles Matteson

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1900 – 1903 John H. Stiness

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1909 – 1913, Edward C. Dubois

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1917 – 1920 Christopher F. Parkhurst

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1920 – 1929 William A. Sweetland

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1929 – 1935 Charles F. Stearns

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1935 – 1957 Edmund W. Flynn

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1958 – 1965, Francis Condon

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1986 – 1993 Thomas Fay

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2009 – present Paul Suttell

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Bibliography

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  • 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

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References

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