Following is a list of justices of the Vermont Supreme Court :
Title | Name | Joined the Court | Appointed by |
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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 |
Judge | Began active service | Ended active service | Notes |
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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 |
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