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Following is a list of persons who have served as '''Justices of the [[Kentucky Supreme Court]]''' since its formation in 1975. |
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Following is a list of persons who have served as '''justices of the [[Kentucky Supreme Court]]''' in its various forms since 1792.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://louisville.edu/law/library/justices-of-kentuckys-highest-court-the-court-of-appeals-1792-1975-supreme-court-1976-present |title=Justices of Kentucky's Highest Court: The Court of Appeals (1792-1975) & Supreme Court (1976-present)|publisher=[[University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law]]|access-date=February 9, 2021}}</ref> |
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== 1792–1895 == |
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|{{sortname|Harry|Innes}}||1792||1792|| || |
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|{{sortname|Benjamin|Sebastian}}||1792||1806|| || |
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|{{sortname|Caleb|Wallace}}||1792||1813|| || |
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|{{sortname|George|Muter}}||1792||1806||1792||1806 |
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|{{sortname|Thomas|Todd}}||1801||1807||1806||1807 |
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|{{sortname|Felix|Grundy}}||1806||1808||1807||1808 |
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|{{sortname|Ninian|Edwards}}||1806||1809||1808||1809 |
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|{{sortname|Robert|Trimble}}||1807||1809|| || |
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|{{sortname|William I.|Logan}}||1808||1810<br>1818|| || |
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|{{sortname|George M.|Bibb}}||1808<br>1827||1809<br>1828|| || |
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|{{sortname|John|Boyle|dab=congressman}}||1809||1827||1810||1827 |
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|{{sortname|James|Clark|dab=Kentucky politician}}||1810||1812|| || |
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|{{sortname|William|Owsley}}||1812||1828|| || |
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|{{sortname|John|Rowan|dab=Kentucky politician}}||1819|| || || |
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|{{sortname|Benjamin|Mills}}||1820||1828|| || |
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|{{sortname|William T.|Barry}}||1825|| || || |
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|{{sortname|James|Haggin|dab=judge}}||1825|| || || |
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|{{sortname|John|Trimble|dab=Kentucky}}||1825|| || || |
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|{{sortname|Benjamin W.|Patton}}||1825|| || || |
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|{{sortname|Rezin|Davidge}}||1825|| || || |
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|{{sortname|John Telemachus|Johnson}}||1826||1826|| || |
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|{{sortname|George|Robertson|dab=congressman}}||1828<br>1864||1842<br>1871||1829<br>1870||1842<br>1871 |
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| {{sortname|Charles M.|Leibson}} || 4th || 1983 || 1995 |
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|{{sortname|Joseph R.|Underwood}}||1828||1834|| || |
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|{{sortname|R. A.|Buckner}}||1829||1832|| || |
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|{{sortname|Samuel Smith|Nicholas}}||1831||1837|| || |
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|{{sortname|Iphraim M.|Ewing}}||1835||1846||1843||1846 |
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|{{sortname|John|Chambers|dab=politician}}||1835<ref>Declined office.</ref>||-||-|| |
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|{{sortname|T. A.|Marshall}}||1835||1856||1847<br>1854<br>1866||1851<br>1856<br>- |
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|{{sortname|Daniel|Breck}}||1843||1849|| || |
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|{{sortname|James|Simpson|dab=Kentucky}}||1847||1860||1851<br>1858||1852<br>1860 |
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|{{sortname|Asher W.|Graham}}||1849||1851|| || |
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|{{sortname|B. Mills|Crenshaw}}||1851||1857||1856||1857 |
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|{{sortname|Elijah|Hise}}||1851||1854||1852||1854 |
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|{{sortname|Henry J.|Stites}}||1854||1862||1860||1862 |
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|{{sortname|Alvin|Duvall}}||1856||1864||1862||1864 |
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|{{sortname|Zachariah|Wheat}}||1857||1858||1857||1858 |
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|{{sortname|Henry C.|Wood|dab=judge}}||1858||1861|| || |
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|{{sortname|Belvard J.|Peters}}||1860||1876||1866<br>1874||1868<br>1876 |
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|{{sortname|Joshua|Bullitt}}||1861||1865||1864||1865 |
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|{{sortname|Rufus K.|Williams}}||1862||1870||1868||1870 |
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|{{sortname|William|Sampson|dab=judge}}||1865||1866||1865||1866 |
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|{{sortname|M. R.|Hardin}}||1866||1874||1872||1874 |
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|{{sortname|William|Lindsay|dab=Kentucky politician}}||1870||1878||1876||1878 |
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|{{sortname|William S.|Pryor}}||1871||1897||1871<br>1878<br>1886<br>1895||1872<br>1880<br>1888<br>1897 |
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|{{sortname|Martin H.|Cofer}}||1874||1881||1880||1881 |
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|{{sortname|John Milton|Elliott}}||1876||1879|| || |
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|{{sortname|Thomas|Hines}}||1878||1886||1884||1886 |
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|{{sortname|T. F.|Hargis}}||1879||1884||1882||1884 |
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|{{sortname|Joseph Horace|Lewis}}||1881||1899||1881<br>1888<br>1897||1882<br>1890<br>1899 |
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|{{sortname|William H.|Holt}}||1884||1893||1890||1893 |
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|{{sortname|Caswell|Bennett}}||1886||1894||1893||1894 |
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|{{sortname|J. H.|Hazelrigg}}||1893||1901||1899||1901 |
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|{{sortname|Isaac M.|Quigley}}||1894||1895||1894||1895 |
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|{{sortname|John R.|Grace}}||1895||1896 || || |
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|{{sortname|B. L. D.|Guffy}}||1895||1903||1902||1903 |
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|{{sortname|Sterling B.|Toney}}||1895<ref name="auto">Appointed, but declined to qualify.</ref>|| || || |
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|{{sortname|T. H.|Paynter}}||1895||1906||1901||1902 |
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|{{sortname|George B.|Estin}}||1895|| || || |
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|{{sortname|George|Durelle}}||1895||1903 || || |
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|{{sortname|Jos. I.|Landes}}||1896|| || || |
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|{{sortname|James D.|White}}||1896||1903 || || |
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|{{sortname|A. R.|Burnam}}||1897||1905||1903||1905 |
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|{{sortname|John P.|Hobson}}||1899||1915||1905<br>1911||1907<br>1915 |
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|{{sortname|Edward C.|O'Rear}}||1901||1911||1907||1909 |
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|{{sortname|W. E.|Settle}}||1903||1927||1909<br>1919||1917<br>1925 |
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|{{sortname|T. J.|Nunn}}||1903||1914||1909||1910 |
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|{{sortname|Henry Stites|Barker}}||1903||1911||1910||1911 |
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|{{sortname|James E.|Cantrill}}||1905||1907|| || |
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|{{sortname|John M.|Lassing}}||1906||1913|| || |
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|{{sortname|John D.|Carroll}}||1907||1921||1919||1921 |
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|{{sortname|Shackelford|Miller Sr.}}||1911||1919||1915||1917 |
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|{{sortname|Robert H.|Winn}}||1911||1912|| || |
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|{{sortname|C. C.|Turner}}||1912||1917|| || |
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|{{sortname|J. B.|Hannah}}||1913||1915|| || |
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|{{sortname|C. S.|Nunn}}||1914||1915|| || |
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|{{sortname|Rollin|Hurt}}||1915||1923||1921||1923 |
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|{{sortname|Ernest S.|Clarke}}||1915||1926||1925||1926 |
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|{{sortname|Gus|Thomas}}||1915||1951||1926<br>1929||1927<br>1931 |
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|{{sortname|Flem D.|Sampson}}||1917||1927||1923||1925 |
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|{{sortname|Huston|Quin}}||1919||1921|| || |
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|{{sortname|William Rogers|Clay}}||1921||1938||1927<br>1935||1929<br>1937 |
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|{{sortname|Charles Harwood|Moorman}}||1921||1923|| || |
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|{{sortname|D. A.|McCandless}}||1923||1929||1929||1929 |
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|{{sortname|H. W.|Robinson}}||1923||1924|| || |
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|{{sortname|Joseph T.|O'Neal}}||1924||1924|| || |
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|{{sortname|R. P.|Dietzman}}||1924||1935||1931||1933 |
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|{{sortname|C. W.|Goodpaster}}||1926||1926|| || |
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|{{sortname|William H.|Rees}}||1926||1951||1933<br>1941<br>1945||1935<br>1942<br>1947 |
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|{{sortname|M. M.|Logan}}||1927||1931||1931||1931 |
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|{{sortname|Simeon|Willis}}||1928||1933|| || |
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|{{sortname|William S.|Grigsby}}||1929||1931|| || |
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|{{sortname|Basil|Richardson}}||1931||1937||1937||1937 |
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|{{sortname|A. J.|Bratcher}}||1931||1931|| || |
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|{{sortname|Wesley Vick|Perry}}||1931||1943||1942||1943 |
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|{{sortname|Alex L.|Ratliff}}||1933||1944||1937<br>1939||1938<br>1941 |
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|{{sortname|James W.|Stites}}||1935||1939||1938||1939 |
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|{{sortname|Virgil H.|Baird}}||1937||1938|| || |
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|{{sortname|James W.|Cammack}}||1938||1953||1944<br>1951||1945<br>1953 |
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|{{sortname|Will H.|Fulton}}||1938||1944||1943||1944 |
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|{{sortname|Henry J.|Tilford}}||1939||1945||1945 |
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|{{sortname|Porter|Sims}}||1943||1959||1947<br>1953||1951<br>1954 |
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|{{sortname|E. Poe|Harris}}||1944||1945|| || |
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|{{sortname|B. J.|Bethurum}}||1944<ref name="auto"/>||1944|| || |
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|{{sortname|Clyde B.|Latimer}}||1944||1952|| || |
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|{{sortname|Thomas S.|Dawson}}||1945||1947|| || |
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|{{sortname|Eugene|Siler}}||1945||1949|| || |
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|{{sortname|Thomas J.|Knight}}||1947||1951|| || |
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|{{sortname|Roy|Helm}}||1949||1951|| || |
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|{{sortname|James B.|Milliken}}||1951||1975||1956<br>1963<br>1971||1957<br>1964<br>1973 |
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|{{sortname|John R.|Moremen}}||1951||1966||1957<br>1965||1964<br>1966 |
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|{{sortname|Brady M.|Stewart}}||1951||1967||1954<br>1962||1956<br>1963 |
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|{{sortname|Bert|Combs}}||1951||1955|| || |
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|{{sortname|Parker W.|Duncan}}||1952||1954|| || |
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|{{sortname|Morris C.|Montgomery}}||1954||1969||1959<br>1968||1960<br>1969 |
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|{{sortname|Astor|Hogg}}||1955||1957|| || |
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|{{sortname|Robert B.|Bird|dab=Kentucky}}||1957||1965||1960||1962 |
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|{{sortname|Amos H.|Eblen}}||1958||1960|| || |
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|{{sortname|Thomas E.|Sandidge}}||1959||1959|| || |
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|{{sortname|Squire N.|Williams, Jr.}}||1959||1969||1967||1968 |
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|{{sortname|John S.|Palmore}}||1959||1982*||1966<br>1973||1967<br>1974 |
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|{{sortname|Edward P.|Hill}}||1965||1973||1969||1971 |
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|{{sortname|Samuel|Steinfeld}}||1967||1973||1972||1973 |
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|{{sortname|Earl T.|Osborne}}||1967||1975||1974||1975 |
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|{{sortname|C. Homer|Niekirk}}||1969||1973|| || |
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|{{sortname|Scott Elgin|Reed}}||1969||1977*||1975||1977 |
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|{{sortname|James B.|Stephenson}}||1973||1988*|| || |
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|{{sortname|Pleas|Jones}}||1973||1979*|| || |
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|{{sortname|Boyce G.|Clayton}}||1975||1983*|| || |
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|{{sortname|Marvin J.|Sternberg}}||1975||1982*|| || |
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|{{sortname|Robert O.|Lukowsky}}||1975||1981*|| || |
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* *Continued as Justice of the Supreme Court. |
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| {{sortname|Boyce G.|Clayton}} || 1st || 1976 || 1983 |
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| {{sortname|John S.|Palmore}} || 2nd || 1976 || 1983 |
| {{sortname|John S.|Palmore}} || 2nd || 1976 || 1983 |
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| {{sortname|Pleas|Jones}} || 3rd || 1976 || 1979 |
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| {{sortname|Marvin J.|Sternberg}} || 4th || 1976 || 1983 |
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| {{sortname|Scott Elgin|Reed}} || 5th || 1976 || 1979 |
| {{sortname|Scott Elgin|Reed}} || 5th || 1976 || 1979 |
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| {{sortname|Robert O.|Lukowsky}} || 6th || 1976 || 1981 |
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| {{sortname|James B.|Stephenson}} || 7th || 1976 || 1989 |
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| {{sortname|John Calvin|Aker}}|| 3rd || 1979 || 1986 |
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| {{sortname|Robert F.|Stephens}} || 5th || 1982 || 1999 |
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| {{sortname|John Jay|O'Hara}} || 6th || 1982 || 1983 |
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| {{sortname|Roy N.|Vance}} || 1st || 1983 || 1991 |
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| {{sortname|William|Gant}} || 2nd || 1983 || 1991 |
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| {{sortname|Charles M.|Leibson}} || 4th || 1983 || 1995 |
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| {{sortname|Donald C.|Wintersheimer}} || 6th || 1983 || 2007 |
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| {{sortname|John D.|White|dab=judge}} || 3rd || 1986 || 1986 |
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| {{sortname|Joseph|Lambert|dab=judge}} || 3rd || 1987 || 2008 |
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| {{sortname|Dan Jack|Combs}} || 7th || 1989 || 1993 |
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| {{sortname|Thomas B.|Spain}} || 1st || 1991 || 1995 |
| {{sortname|Thomas B.|Spain}} || 1st || 1991 || 1995 |
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| {{sortname|Charles H.|Reynolds}} || 2nd || 1991 || 1996 |
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| {{sortname|Sara Walter|Combs}} || 7th || 1993 || 1993 |
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| {{sortname|Janet|Stumbo}} || 7th || 1993 || 2005 |
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| {{sortname|William|Fuqua}} || 1st || 1995 || 1995 |
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| {{sortname|William|Graves|dab=judge}} || 1st || 1995 || 2006 |
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| {{sortname|Nicholas|King|dab=judge}} || 4th || 1995 || 1996 |
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| {{sortname|Walter Arnold|Baker|}} || 2nd || 1996 || 1996 |
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| {{sortname|William S.|Cooper|dab=judge}} || 2nd || 1996 || 2006 |
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| {{sortname|Martin E.|Johnstone}} || 4th || 1996 ||2006 |
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| {{sortname|James E.|Keller}} || 5th || 1999 || 2006 |
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| {{sortname|John C.|Roach}}|| 5th || 2005 || 2006 |
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| {{sortname|Will T.|Scott}} || 7th || 2005 || 2015 |
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| {{sortname|John D.|Minton Jr.}} || 2nd || 2006 || 2023 |
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|{{sortname|William E.|McAnulty Jr.}} || 4th || 2006 || 2007 |
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| {{sortname|Bill|Cunningham|dab=judge}} || 1st || 2007 || 2019 |
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| {{sortname|Lisabeth Tabor|Hughes}} || 4th || 2007 || 2023 |
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| {{sortname|Mary C.|Noble}} || 5th || 2007 || 2016 |
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| {{sortname|Wilfrid|Schroder}} || 6th || 2007 || 2013 |
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| {{sortname|Daniel J.|Venters}} || 3rd || 2008 || 2019 |
| {{sortname|Daniel J.|Venters}} || 3rd || 2008 || 2019 |
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| {{sortname|Michelle M.|Keller}} || 6th || 2013 || Incumbent |
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| {{sortname|David Allen|Barber}} || 7th || 2015 || 2015 |
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| {{sortname|Samuel T.|Wright III}} || 7th || 2015 || 2021 |
| {{sortname|Samuel T.|Wright III}} || 7th || 2015 || 2021 |
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| {{sortname|Laurance B.|VanMeter}} || 5th || 2017 || Incumbent |
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| {{sortname|Christopher Shea|Nickell}} || 1st || 2019|| Incumbent |
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| {{sortname|David|Buckingham|dab=judge}} || 1st || 2019 || 2019 |
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| {{sortname|Debra H.|Lambert}} || 3rd || 2019 || Incumbent |
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| {{sortname|Robert B.|Conley}} || 7th || 2021 || Incumbent |
| {{sortname|Robert B.|Conley}} || 7th || 2021 || Incumbent |
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| {{sortname|Angela McCormick|Bisig}} || 4th || 2023 || Incumbent |
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| {{sortname|Kelly|Thompson|dab=judge}} || 2nd || 2023 || Incumbent |
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Prior to the formation of the current Kentucky Supreme Court, the highest court in the state was the [[Kentucky Court of Errors and Appeals]]. Justices of this court include: |
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*[[Felix Grundy]] (1805–1807, Chief Justice in 1807) |
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*[[Thomas Todd]] (1801–1807, Chief Justice 1806–1807) |
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*[[Ninian Edwards]] (1806-1809), Chief Justice 1808) |
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*[[George M. Bibb]], Chief Justice in 1808 and again 1827-1828 |
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*[[John Boyle (congressman)|John Boyle]] (1809-1826), Chief Justice 1810-1826 (or 1825) |
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==References== |
==References== |
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{{reflist}} |
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* [http://louisville.edu/law/library/justices-of-kentuckys-highest-court-the-court-of-appeals-1792-1975-supreme-court-1976-present 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 |
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Latest revision as of 13:20, 21 May 2024
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[edit]
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 |
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George M. Bibb | 1808 1827 |
1809 1828 |
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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[edit]
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 | 1973 | 1972 | 1973 |
Earl T. Osborne | 1967 | 1975 | 1974 | 1975 |
C. Homer Niekirk | 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[edit]
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 | 1982 | 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 | 2006 |
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 | 2007 | 2016 |
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 | Incumbent |
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 |
References[edit]
- ^ "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.
- ^ Declined office.
- ^ a b Appointed, but declined to qualify.