List of justices of the Vermont Supreme Court

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

Contents

Current membership

TitleNameJoined the CourtAppointed 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

JudgeBegan active
service
Ended active
service
Notes
Moses Robinson 1778
1782
1785
1780
1783
1788
Chief Judge.
John Shepardson 17781779
John Fassett Jr. 17781785
Thomas Chandler Jr. 17781778
John Throop 17781780
Paul Spooner 17791788Chief Judge in 1784.
Increase Moseley 17801780
Elisha Payne 17811782Chief 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 17811782
Simeon Olcott 17821782
Peter Olcott 17821784
Thomas Porter 17831785
Nathaniel Niles 17841787
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 17861786Removed by reduction of the court to three judges.
Stephen R. Bradley 17881788
Noah Smith 1789
1798
1790
1800
Samuel Knight 17891793Chief Judge from 1791 to 1793.
Elijah Paine 17911793
Isaac Tichenor 17911795Chief Judge from 1794 to 1795.
Lot Hall 17941800
Enoch Woodbridge 17941800Chief Judge from 1798 to 1800.
Israel Smith 17971797Chief Judge.
Jonathan Robinson 18011806Chief Judge.
Royall Tyler 18011812Chief Judge from 1807 to 1812.
Stephen Jacob 18011802
Theophilus Harrington 18031812
Jonas Galusha 18071808
David Fay 18091812
Daniel Farrand 18131814
Jonathan Hatch Hubbard 18131814
Asa Aldis 18151815Chief Judge.
Richard Skinner 1815
1823
1816
1828
Chief Judge in 1816, and from 1823 to 1828.
James Fisk 18151816
William A. Palmer 18161816
Dudley Chase 18171820Chief Judge.
Joel Doolittle 1817
1824
1822
1824
William Brayton 18171821
Cornelius P. Van Ness 18211822Chief Judge.
Charles K. Williams 1822
1829
1823
1845
Chief Judge from 1834 to 1845
Asa Aikens 18231824
Samuel Prentiss 18251829Chief Judge in 1829.
Titus Hutchinson 18251833Chief Judge from 1830 to 1833.
Stephen Royce 1825
1829
1826
1851
Chief Judge from 1846 to 1851.
Bates Turner 18271828
Ephraim Paddock 18281830
Charles K. Williams 18301845Chief Judge from 1834 to 1845.
John C. Thompson 18301830
Nicholas Baylies 18311833
Samuel S. Phelps 18311837
Jacob Collamer 18341841
John Mattocks 18341835
Isaac F. Redfield 18361859Chief 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 18461849
Charles Davis 18461847
Luke P. Poland 1848
1857
1849
1864
Chief Judge from 1860 to 1864.
Pierpoint Isham 18511856
Asa O. Aldis 18571864
John Pierpoint 18571882Chief Judge from 1865 to 1882.
James Barrett 18571880
Loyal C. Kellogg 18591866
Asahel Peck 18601874
Herman R. Beardsley 18651865
William C. Wilson 18651869
Benjamin H. Steele 18651869
John Prout 18671869
Hoyt Henry Wheeler 18691878
Homer Elihu Royce 18701890Chief Judge from 1882 to 1890
Timothy P. Redfield 18701884
Jonathan Ross 18701899Chief Judge from 1890 to 1899
H. Henry Powers 18741890
Walter C. Dunton 18771879
Wheelock G. Veazey 18791889
Russell S. Taft 18801902Chief Judge from 1899 to 1902
John W. Rowell 18821913Chief Judge/Chief Justice from 1902 to 1913
William H. Walker 18841887
James Manning Tyler 18871908
Loveland Munson 18901917Chief Justice from 1915 to 1917.
Henry R. Start 18901905
Laforrest H. Thompson 18901900
John H. Watson 18991929Chief Justice from 1917 to 1929.
Wendell Phillips Stafford 19001904
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 19131926
Leighton P. Slack 1914
1919
1915
1938
Robert E. Healy 19141915
Fred M. Butler 19231926
Frank L. Fish 19261927
Sherman R. Moulton 19261949Chief Justice from 1939 to 1949.
Harrie B. Chase 19271929
Julius A. Willcox 19291931
Frank D. Thompson 19291937
Warner A. Graham 19311934
John C. Sherburne 19341955Chief Justice from 1949 to 1955.
John S. Buttles 19371949
Allen R. Sturtevant 19381948
Olin M. Jeffords 19381958Chief Justice from 1955 to 1958.
Walter H. Cleary 19481958Chief Justice from 1958 to 1959.
Charles Bayley Adams 19491959
Samuel H. Blackmer 19491951
Stephen S. Cushing 19521953
Paul A. Chase 19531956
Benjamin N. Hulburd 19551963Chief Justice from 1959 to 1963.
James Stuart Holden 19561972Chief Justice from 1963 to 1972.
Percival L. Shangraw 19581974Chief Justice from 1972 to 1974.
Albert W. Barney Jr. 19591982Chief Justice from 1974 to 1982.
Milford K. Smith 19591976
Harold C. Sylvester 19631964
F. Ray Keyser Sr. 19641975
Rudolph J. Daley 19721980
Robert W. Larrow 19741981
Franklin S. Billings Jr. 19751984Chief Justice from 1983 to 1984.
William C. Hill 19761987
Wynn Underwood 19811984
Louis P. Peck 19811990
Frederic W. Allen 19841997Chief Justice from 1984 to 1997.
Ernest W. Gibson III 19831997
Thomas L. Hayes 19851987
John Dooley (judge) 19872017
Frank G. Mahady 19871988Appointed but never confirmed by the Senate; withdrew his confirmation request on April 3, 1988.
James L. Morse 19882003
Denise R. Johnson 19902011First woman to serve on the court.
Jeffrey Amestoy 19972004Chief Justice from 1997 to 2004.
Marilyn Skoglund 19972019
Paul Reiber 2003PresentChief Justice since 2004.
Brian L. Burgess 20052013
Beth Robinson 20112021Confirmed to be a Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. [2]
Geoffrey Crawford 20132014Confirmed to be a Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Vermont. [3]
Harold Eaton Jr. 2014Present
Karen Carroll 2017Present
William D. Cohen 2019Present
Nancy Waples 2022Present

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References

  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.