Sir Michael Hardie Boys,was a New Zealand lawyer,judge and jurist who served as the 17th Governor-General of New Zealand,in office from 1996 to 2001.
Sir Mark Andrew O'Regan is a New Zealand lawyer and jurist. He was the President of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand until his elevation to the Supreme Court of New Zealand in 2014.
Sir Thomas Munro Gault was a New Zealand jurist. He was a Justice of the Supreme Court of New Zealand and a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom as well as a non-permanent judge of the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong. He was also a justice of the Supreme Court of Fiji.
Sir Edmund Walter Thomas,widely known as Ted Thomas,is a New Zealand jurist. He is a retired judge of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand and a former acting judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.
Sir John Steele Henry is a New Zealand jurist and former Court of Appeal judge,and member of the well-known Henry family.
Sir Ivor Lloyd Morgan Richardson was an eminent New Zealand and Commonwealth jurist and legal writer and a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
Sir Arthur Owen Woodhouse was a New Zealand jurist and chair of government commissions.
Sir William Gillow Gibbes Austen Young was a Supreme Court Judge,former President of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand,and,briefly,a judge of the Dubai International Financial Centre Courts. He was appointed to the Supreme Court by Attorney-General Chris Finlayson in June 2010,taking effect from 1 July.
Sir Noel Crossley Anderson was a New Zealand judge who was President of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand from 2004 to 2006,before being elevated to the Supreme Court. He left office in 2008.
Anthony David Ford was a New Zealand lawyer and jurist. He served as a judge of the Employment Court of New Zealand and Chief Justice of the Kingdom of Tonga.
Sir John Joseph McGrath was a judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand,serving in that role from 2005 until 2015. He was also a judge of the Court of Appeal from 2000 to 2005,and the Solicitor-General of New Zealand from 1989 to 2000.
Sir Peter Blanchard is a former judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.
Sir Robert Stanley Chambers was a judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.
Sir Andrew Patrick Charles Tipping is a New Zealand jurist who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of New Zealand from 2004 until his retirement in 2012. He is New Zealand's longest-serving judge,serving on the bench for 25 years. Tipping was also a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom. His tenure as a jurist has been widely acclaimed and his contributions to the shaping of New Zealand law are considered to be substantial and permanent.
Dame Lowell Patria Goddard,is a former New Zealand High Court judge,from 1995 to 2015. She is thought to be the first person of Māori ancestry to have been appointed to the High Court. In 1988,she was one of the first two women to be appointed Queen's Counsel in New Zealand and in 1989 became the first woman to hold a Crown warrant. In 1992,she became Deputy Solicitor-General for New Zealand. Between 2007 and 2012 she chaired New Zealand's Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA). In 2010 she was elected as an independent expert to the United Nations Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture (SPT) and served in that capacity until 2016. From February 2015 until August 2016,she chaired the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in England and Wales.
Dame Ellen Dolour France is a New Zealand jurist. She is currently a justice of the Supreme Court,and was previously the president of the Court of Appeal.
Sir John Stephen Kós is a New Zealand judge on the Supreme Court of New Zealand and the former President of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand.
Sir Joseph Victor Williams is a New Zealand lawyer and judge. He has been a justice of the Supreme Court of New Zealand since 2019,and is the first Māori person appointed to the role.
Sir Douglas John White is a former New Zealand jurist.
Patrick John Keane is a retired New Zealand judge. In December 2022,he was appointed Chief Justice of the Cook Islands,replacing Hugh Williams.
