List of justices of the Kentucky Supreme Court

Following is a list of persons who have served as justices of the Kentucky Supreme Court in its various forms since 1792. ^[1]

1792–1895

Justice	Began active service	End of active service	Chief Justice start	Chief Justice end
Harry Innes	1792	1792
Benjamin Sebastian	1792	1806
Caleb Wallace	1792	1813
George Muter	1792	1806	1792	1806
Thomas Todd	1801	1807	1806	1807
Felix Grundy	1806	1808	1807	1808
Ninian Edwards	1806	1809	1808	1809
Robert Trimble	1807	1809
William I. Logan	1808	1810 1818
George M. Bibb	1808 1827	1809 1828
John Boyle	1809	1827	1810	1827
James Clark	1810	1812
William Owsley	1812	1828
John Rowan	1819
Benjamin Mills	1820	1828
William T. Barry	1825
James Haggin	1825
John Trimble	1825
Benjamin W. Patton	1825
Rezin Davidge	1825
John Telemachus Johnson	1826	1826
George Robertson	1828 1864	1842 1871	1829 1870	1842 1871
Joseph R. Underwood	1828	1834
R. A. Buckner	1829	1832
Samuel Smith Nicholas	1831	1837
Iphraim M. Ewing	1835	1846	1843	1846
John Chambers	1835 [2]	-	-
T. A. Marshall	1835	1856	1847 1854 1866	1851 1856 -
Daniel Breck	1843	1849
James Simpson	1847	1860	1851 1858	1852 1860
Asher W. Graham	1849	1851
B. Mills Crenshaw	1851	1857	1856	1857
Elijah Hise	1851	1854	1852	1854
Henry J. Stites	1854	1862	1860	1862
Alvin Duvall	1856	1864	1862	1864
Zachariah Wheat	1857	1858	1857	1858
Henry C. Wood	1858	1861
Belvard J. Peters	1860	1876	1866 1874	1868 1876
Joshua Bullitt	1861	1865	1864	1865
Rufus K. Williams	1862	1870	1868	1870
William Sampson	1865	1866	1865	1866
M. R. Hardin	1866	1874	1872	1874
William Lindsay	1870	1878	1876	1878
William S. Pryor	1871	1897	1871 1878 1886 1895	1872 1880 1888 1897
Martin H. Cofer	1874	1881	1880	1881
John Milton Elliott	1876	1879
Thomas Hines	1878	1886	1884	1886
T. F. Hargis	1879	1884	1882	1884
Joseph Horace Lewis	1881	1899	1881 1888 1897	1882 1890 1899
William H. Holt	1884	1893	1890	1893
Caswell Bennett	1886	1894	1893	1894
J. H. Hazelrigg	1893	1901	1899	1901
Isaac M. Quigley	1894	1895	1894	1895

1895 reorganization

Justice	Began active service	End of active service	Chief Justice start	Chief Justice end
John R. Grace	1895	1896
B. L. D. Guffy	1895	1903	1902	1903
Sterling B. Toney	1895 [3]
T. H. Paynter	1895	1906	1901	1902
George B. Estin	1895
George Durelle	1895	1903
Jos. I. Landes	1896
James D. White	1896	1903
A. R. Burnam	1897	1905	1903	1905
John P. Hobson	1899	1915	1905 1911	1907 1915
Edward C. O'Rear	1901	1911	1907	1909
W. E. Settle	1903	1927	1909 1919	1917 1925
T. J. Nunn	1903	1914	1909	1910
Henry Stites Barker	1903	1911	1910	1911
James E. Cantrill	1905	1907
John M. Lassing	1906	1913
John D. Carroll	1907	1921	1919	1921
Shackelford Miller Sr.	1911	1919	1915	1917
Robert H. Winn	1911	1912
C. C. Turner	1912	1917
J. B. Hannah	1913	1915
C. S. Nunn	1914	1915
Rollin Hurt	1915	1923	1921	1923
Ernest S. Clarke	1915	1926	1925	1926
Gus Thomas	1915	1951	1926 1929	1927 1931
Flem D. Sampson	1917	1927	1923	1925
Huston Quin	1919	1921
William Rogers Clay	1921	1938	1927 1935	1929 1937
Charles Harwood Moorman	1921	1923
D. A. McCandless	1923	1929	1929	1929
H. W. Robinson	1923	1924
Joseph T. O'Neal	1924	1924
R. P. Dietzman	1924	1935	1931	1933
C. W. Goodpaster	1926	1926
William H. Rees	1926	1951	1933 1941 1945	1935 1942 1947
M. M. Logan	1927	1931	1931	1931
Simeon Willis	1928	1933
William S. Grigsby	1929	1931
Basil Richardson	1931	1937	1937	1937
A. J. Bratcher	1931	1931
Wesley Vick Perry	1931	1943	1942	1943
Alex L. Ratliff	1933	1944	1937 1939	1938 1941
James W. Stites	1935	1939	1938	1939
Virgil H. Baird	1937	1938
James W. Cammack	1938	1953	1944 1951	1945 1953
Will H. Fulton	1938	1944	1943	1944
Henry J. Tilford	1939	1945	1945
Porter Sims	1943	1959	1947 1953	1951 1954
E. Poe Harris	1944	1945
B. J. Bethurum	1944 [3]	1944
Clyde B. Latimer	1944	1952
Thomas S. Dawson	1945	1947
Eugene Siler	1945	1949
Thomas J. Knight	1947	1951
Roy Helm	1949	1951
James B. Milliken	1951	1975	1956 1963 1971	1957 1964 1973
John R. Moremen	1951	1966	1957 1965	1964 1966
Brady M. Stewart	1951	1967	1954 1962	1956 1963
Bert Combs	1951	1955
Parker W. Duncan	1952	1954
Morris C. Montgomery	1954	1969	1959 1968	1960 1969
Astor Hogg	1955	1957
Robert B. Bird	1957	1965	1960	1962
Amos H. Eblen	1958	1960
Thomas E. Sandidge	1959	1959
Squire N. Williams, Jr.	1959	1969	1967	1968
John S. Palmore	1959	1982*	1966 1973	1967 1974
Edward P. Hill	1965	1973	1969	1971
Samuel Steinfeld	1967	1975	1972	1973
Earl T. Osborne	1967	1975	1974	1975
C. Homer Neikirk	1969	1973
Scott Elgin Reed	1969	1977*	1975	1977
James B. Stephenson	1973	1988*
Pleas Jones	1973	1979*
Boyce G. Clayton	1975	1983*
Marvin J. Sternberg	1975	1982*
Robert O. Lukowsky	1975	1981*

• *Continued as Justice of the Supreme Court.

1975 reorganization

Justice	District	Began active service	End of active service
Boyce G. Clayton	1st	1976	1983
John S. Palmore	2nd	1976	1983
Pleas Jones	3rd	1976	1979
Marvin J. Sternberg	4th	1976	1983
Scott Elgin Reed	5th	1976	1979
Robert O. Lukowsky	6th	1976	1981
James B. Stephenson	7th	1976	1989
John Calvin Aker	3rd	1979	1986
Robert F. Stephens	5th	1979	1999
John Jay O'Hara	6th	1982	1983
Roy N. Vance	1st	1983	1991
William Gant	2nd	1983	1991
Charles M. Leibson	4th	1983	1995
Donald C. Wintersheimer	6th	1983	2007
John D. White	3rd	1986	1986
Joseph Lambert	3rd	1987	2008
Dan Jack Combs	7th	1989	1993
Thomas B. Spain	1st	1991	1995
Charles H. Reynolds	2nd	1991	1996
Sara Walter Combs	7th	1993	1993
Janet Stumbo	7th	1993	2005
William Fuqua	1st	1995	1995
William Graves	1st	1995	2006
Nicholas King	4th	1995	1996
Walter Arnold Baker	2nd	1996	1996
William S. Cooper	2nd	1996	2006
Martin E. Johnstone	4th	1996	2006
James E. Keller	5th	1999	2005
John C. Roach	5th	2005	2006
Will T. Scott	7th	2005	2015
John D. Minton Jr.	2nd	2006	2023
William E. McAnulty Jr.	4th	2006	2007
Bill Cunningham	1st	2007	2019
Lisabeth Tabor Hughes	4th	2007	2023
Mary C. Noble	5th	2006	2017
Wilfrid Schroder	6th	2007	2013
Daniel J. Venters	3rd	2008	2019
Michelle M. Keller	6th	2013	Incumbent
David Allen Barber	7th	2015	2015
Samuel T. Wright III	7th	2015	2021
Laurance B. VanMeter	5th	2017	2025
Christopher Shea Nickell	1st	2019	Incumbent
David Buckingham	1st	2019	2019
Debra H. Lambert	3rd	2019	Incumbent
Robert B. Conley	7th	2021	Incumbent
Angela McCormick Bisig	4th	2023	Incumbent
Kelly Thompson	2nd	2023	Incumbent
Pamela R. Goodwine	5th	2025	Incumbent

References

1. "Justices of Kentucky's Highest Court: The Court of Appeals (1792-1975) & Supreme Court (1976-present)". University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law . Retrieved February 9, 2021.
2. Declined office.
3. Appointed, but declined to qualify.