List of Justices of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Mural on the wall of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's chambers in the Pennsylvania State Capitol

Following is a list of Justices of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, including justices of the Provincial Court.

Chief Justices

• Capt. William Crispin, appointed Chief Justice by William Penn in 1684 but died at sea on the way to Philadelphia.
• Dr. Nicholas More, Chief Justice 1684
• William Clarke, 1684, Chief Justice 1703
• Arthur Cooke, 1685, Chief Justice 1686
• John Simcock, 1686, Chief Justice 1690
• Joseph Growden, 1690, Chief Justice 1707
• John Guest, Chief Justice 1701
• John Guest, 1704, Chief Justice 1705
• Roger Mompesson, Chief Justice 1706
• David Lloyd, Chief Justice 1717
• Jeremiah Langhorne, 1726, Chief Justice 1739
• James Logan, Chief Justice 1731
• William Allen, Chief Justice 1750
• Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice 1774
• Thomas McKean, appointed Chief Justice 1777, elected 1784 and 1791
• Edward Shippen (III), 1791, Chief Justice 1799
• William Bradford Jr., 1791
• William Tilghman, Chief Justice 1806
• John Bannister Gibson, 1816, Chief Justice 1838
• Jeremiah S. Black, Chief Justice 1851
• Ellis Lewis, 1851, Chief Justice 1855
• Walter H. Lowrie, 1851, Chief Justice 1857
• George W. Woodward, 1852, Chief Justice 1863
• James Thompson, 1857, Chief Justice 1867
• John M. Read, 1858, Chief Justice 1872
• Daniel Agnew, 1863, Chief Justice 1873
• George Sharswood, 1867, Chief Justice 1879
• Ulysses Mercur, 1872, Chief Justice 1883
• Isaac G. Gordon, 1873, Chief Justice 1887
• Edward M. Paxson, 1875, Chief Justice 1889
• James P. Sterrett, 1877, Chief Justice 1893
• Henry Green, 1879, Chief Justice 1900
• J. Brewster McCollum, 1888, Chief Justice 1900
• James T. Mitchell, 1888, Chief Justice 1903
• D. Newlin Fell, 1894, Chief Justice 1910
• J. Hay Brown, 1899, Chief Justice 1915
• Robert von Moschzisker, 1910, Chief Justice 1921
• Robert S. Frazer, 1915, Chief Justice 1930
• John W. Kephart, 1919, Chief Justice 1936
• William I. Schaffer, 1920, Chief Justice 1940
• George W. Maxey, 1930, Chief Justice 1943
• James B. Drew, 1931, Chief Justice 1950
• Horace Stern, 1936, Chief Justice 1952
• Charles Alvin Jones, 1945, Chief Justice 1956
• John C. Bell, Jr., 1950, Chief Justice 1961
• Benjamin R. Jones, 1957, Chief Justice 1972
• Michael J. Eagen, 1960, Chief Justice 1977
• Henry X. O'Brien, 1962, Chief Justice 1980
• Samuel J. Roberts, Chief Justice 1983
• Robert N. C. Nix, Jr., 1972, Chief Justice 1986
• John P. Flaherty Jr., 1979, Chief Justice 1996
• Ralph J. Cappy, 1990, Chief Justice 1998
• Ronald D. Castille, 1994, Chief Justice 2008

Other justices

• Anthony Morris, 1694
• Edward Shippen, circa 1699
• Caleb Pusey, 1701
• William Trent, 1704
• Richard Hill, 1711
• Thomas Graeme, 1731
• Thomas Griffitts, 1739
• Thomas Willing, 1767
• John Morton, 1774
• William Augustus Atlee, 1777
• John Evans, 1777
• George Bryan, 1787
• William Bradford Jr., 1791
• Thomas Smith, 1794
• Hugh Henry Brackenridge, 1800
• John Tod, 1827
• Frederick Smith, 1828, died 1830
• John Ross, 1830
• Thomas Burnside, 1845
• Richard Coulter, appointed 1846, elected 1847
• George Chambers, 1851
• John C. Knox, 1853
• James Armstrong, 1857
• William Strong, 1857
• S.L. Mestrezat, 1900
• Michael A. Musmanno, 1952
• Herbert B. Cohen, 1957
• Curtis Bok, 1958
• Anne X. Alpern, 1961
• Rolf Larsen, 1978 (impeached and removed from office, 1994)
• William D. Hutchinson, 1982
• Juanita Kidd Stout, 1988–89
• Russell M. Nigro, 1996 (defeated for retention, 2005)
• Cynthia Baldwin, (appointed by Governor Rendell, 2006)
• James J. Fitzgerald III, (appointed by Governor Rendell, 2007)
• Jane Cutler Greenspan, (appointed by Governor Rendell, 2008)
• Seamus McCaffery, 2008
• Joan Orie Melvin, 2010
• Correale Stevens, (appointed by Governor Corbett, 2013)