List of justices of the Vermont Supreme Court

Following is a list of justices of the Vermont Supreme Court:

Current membership

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Title Name Joined the Court Appointed by
Chief Justice Paul L. Reiber 2003 Jim Douglas
Associate Justice Harold Eaton Jr. 2014 Peter Shumlin
Associate Justice Karen Carroll 2017 Phil Scott
Associate Justice William D. Cohen 2019 Phil Scott
Associate Justice Nancy Waples 2022 Phil Scott

All justices

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Judge Began active
service
Ended active
service
Notes
Moses Robinson 1778
1782
1785
1780
1783
1788
Chief Judge.
John Shepardson 1778 1779
John Fassett Jr. 1778 1785
Thomas Chandler Jr. 1778 1778
John Throop 1778 1780
Paul Spooner 1779 1788 Chief Judge in 1784.
Increase Moseley 1780 1780
Elisha Payne 1781 1782 Chief Judge; removed from the court by the dissolution of the union with towns in New Hampshire in February 1782 and replaced by Moses Robinson.[1]
Jonas Fay 1781 1782
Simeon Olcott 1782 1782
Peter Olcott 1782 1784
Thomas Porter 1783 1785
Nathaniel Niles 1784 1787
Nathaniel Chipman 1786
1789
1796
1813
1786
1790
1796
1814
Removed in 1786 by reduction of the court to three judges.
Chief Judge from 1789 to 1790, in 1796, and from 1813 to 1814.
Luke Knowlton 1786 1786 Removed by reduction of the court to three judges.
Stephen R. Bradley 1788 1788
Noah Smith 1789
1798
1790
1800
Samuel Knight 1789 1793 Chief Judge from 1791 to 1793.
Elijah Paine 1791 1793
Isaac Tichenor 1791 1795 Chief Judge from 1794 to 1795.
Lot Hall 1794 1800
Enoch Woodbridge 1794 1800 Chief Judge from 1798 to 1800.
Israel Smith 1797 1797 Chief Judge.
Jonathan Robinson 1801 1806 Chief Judge.
Royall Tyler 1801 1812 Chief Judge from 1807 to 1812.
Stephen Jacob 1801 1802
Theophilus Harrington 1803 1812
Jonas Galusha 1807 1808
David Fay 1809 1812
Daniel Farrand 1813 1814
Jonathan Hatch Hubbard 1813 1814
Asa Aldis 1815 1815 Chief Judge.
Richard Skinner 1815
1823
1816
1828
Chief Judge in 1816, and from 1823 to 1828.
James Fisk 1815 1816
William A. Palmer 1816 1816
Dudley Chase 1817 1820 Chief Judge.
Joel Doolittle 1817
1824
1822
1824
William Brayton 1817 1821
Cornelius P. Van Ness 1821 1822 Chief Judge.
Charles K. Williams 1822
1829
1823
1845
Chief Judge from 1834 to 1845
Asa Aikens 1823 1824
Samuel Prentiss 1825 1829 Chief Judge in 1829.
Titus Hutchinson 1825 1833 Chief Judge from 1830 to 1833.
Stephen Royce 1825
1829
1826
1851
Chief Judge from 1846 to 1851.
Bates Turner 1827 1828
Ephraim Paddock 1828 1830
Charles K. Williams 1830 1845 Chief Judge from 1834 to 1845.
John C. Thompson 1830 1830
Nicholas Baylies 1831 1833
Samuel S. Phelps 1831 1837
Jacob Collamer 1834 1841
John Mattocks 1834 1835
Isaac F. Redfield 1836 1859 Chief Judge from 1852 to 1859.
Milo Lyman Bennett 1838
1852
1849
1858
William Hebard 1842
1844
1842
1844
Daniel Kellogg 1843
1845
1843
1850
Hiland Hall 1846 1849
Charles Davis 1846 1847
Luke P. Poland 1848
1857
1849
1864
Chief Judge from 1860 to 1864.
Pierpoint Isham 1851 1856
Asa O. Aldis 1857 1864
John Pierpoint 1857 1882 Chief Judge from 1865 to 1882.
James Barrett 1857 1880
Loyal C. Kellogg 1859 1866
Asahel Peck 1860 1874
Herman R. Beardsley 1865 1865
William C. Wilson 1865 1869
Benjamin H. Steele 1865 1869
John Prout 1867 1869
Hoyt Henry Wheeler 1869 1878
Homer Elihu Royce 1870 1890 Chief Judge from 1882 to 1890
Timothy P. Redfield 1870 1884
Jonathan Ross 1870 1899 Chief Judge from 1890 to 1899
H. Henry Powers 1874 1890
Walter C. Dunton 1877 1879
Wheelock G. Veazey 1879 1889
Russell S. Taft 1880 1902 Chief Judge from 1899 to 1902
John W. Rowell 1882 1913 Chief Judge/Chief Justice from 1902 to 1913
William H. Walker 1884 1887
James Manning Tyler 1887 1908
Loveland Munson 1890 1917 Chief Justice from 1915 to 1917.
Henry R. Start 1890 1905
Laforrest H. Thompson 1890 1900
John H. Watson 1899 1929 Chief Justice from 1917 to 1929.
Wendell Phillips Stafford 1900 1904
Seneca Haselton 1902
1908
1906
1919
George M. Powers 1904
1909
1906
1938
Chief Justice from 1913 to 1915, and from 1929 to 1938.
Willard W. Miles 1905
1917
1906
1923
William H. Taylor 1913 1926
Leighton P. Slack 1914
1919
1915
1938
Robert E. Healy 1914 1915
Fred M. Butler 1923 1926
Frank L. Fish 1926 1927
Sherman R. Moulton 1926 1949 Chief Justice from 1939 to 1949.
Harrie B. Chase 1927 1929
Julius A. Willcox 1929 1931
Frank D. Thompson 1929 1937
Warner A. Graham 1931 1934
John C. Sherburne 1934 1955 Chief Justice from 1949 to 1955.
John S. Buttles 1937 1949
Allen R. Sturtevant 1938 1948
Olin M. Jeffords 1938 1958 Chief Justice from 1955 to 1958.
Walter H. Cleary 1948 1958 Chief Justice from 1958 to 1959.
Charles Bayley Adams 1949 1959
Samuel H. Blackmer 1949 1951
Stephen S. Cushing 1952 1953
Paul A. Chase 1953 1956
Benjamin N. Hulburd 1955 1963 Chief Justice from 1959 to 1963.
James Stuart Holden 1956 1972 Chief Justice from 1963 to 1972.
Percival L. Shangraw 1958 1974 Chief Justice from 1972 to 1974.
Albert W. Barney Jr. 1959 1982 Chief Justice from 1974 to 1982.
Milford K. Smith 1959 1976
Harold C. Sylvester 1963 1964
F. Ray Keyser Sr. 1964 1975
Rudolph J. Daley 1972 1980
Robert W. Larrow 1974 1981
Franklin S. Billings Jr. 1975 1984 Chief Justice from 1983 to 1984.
William C. Hill 1976 1987
Wynn Underwood 1981 1984
Louis P. Peck 1981 1990
Frederic W. Allen 1984 1997 Chief Justice from 1984 to 1997.
Ernest W. Gibson III 1983 1997
Thomas L. Hayes 1985 1987
John Dooley (judge) 1987 2017
Frank G. Mahady 1987 1988 Appointed but never confirmed by the Senate; withdrew his confirmation request on April 3, 1988.
James L. Morse 1988 2003
Denise R. Johnson 1990 2011 First woman to serve on the court.
Jeffrey Amestoy 1997 2004 Chief Justice from 1997 to 2004.
Marilyn Skoglund 1997 2019
Paul Reiber 2003 Present Chief Justice since 2004.
Brian L. Burgess 2005 2013
Beth Robinson 2011 2021 Confirmed to be a Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.[2]
Geoffrey Crawford 2013 2014 Confirmed to be a Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Vermont.[3]
Harold Eaton Jr. 2014 Present
Karen Carroll 2017 Present
William D. Cohen 2019 Present
Nancy Waples 2022 Present

References

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  1. ^ Office of the Vermont Secretary of State, Vermont State Archives and Records Administration, "Justices of the Supreme Court, 1778–Present.
  2. ^ "Biographical Directory of Federal Judges". Federal Judicial Center.
  3. ^ "Biographical Directory of Federal Judges". Federal Judicial Center.