List of Justices of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court
The following table lists the terms of all Maine Supreme Judicial Court justices in the order of appointment to serve on the Court.
# | Judge | Residence | Born/Died | Term of Service | Appointed By | Reason for Termination | ||
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Active | Chief | Reappointed | ||||||
1 | Prentiss Mellen | Portland, Maine | July 1, 1820– October 11, 1834 | July 1, 1820– October 11, 1834 | ||||
2 | William Pitt Preble | Portland, Maine | July 1, 1820– June 18, 1828 | resignation | ||||
3 | Nathan Weston | Augusta, Maine | July 1, 1820– October 21, 1841 | October 22, 1834– October 21, 1841 | ||||
4 | Albion K. Parris | Portland, Maine | June 25, 1828– August 20, 1836 | resignation | ||||
5 | Nicholas Emery | Portland, Maine | October 22, 1834– October 21, 1841 | |||||
6 | Ether Shepley | Saco, Maine | September 23, 1836– October 22, 1855 | October 23, 1848– October 22, 1855 | ||||
7 | John S. Tenney | Norridgewock, Maine | October 23, 1841– October 23, 1862 | October 23, 1855– October 23, 1862 | ||||
8 | Ezekiel Whitman | Portland, Maine | December 10, 1841– October 23, 1848 | December 10, 1841– October 23, 1848 | ||||
9 | Samuel Wells | Portland, Maine | September 28, 1847– March 31, 1854 | resignation | ||||
10 | Joseph Howard | Portland, Maine | October 23, 1848– October 22, 1856 | |||||
11 | Richard D. Rice | Augusta, Maine | May 11, 1852– December 1, 1863 | resignation | ||||
12 | John Appleton | Bangor, Maine | May 11, 1852– September 19, 1883 | October 24, 1862– September 19, 1883 | ||||
13 | Joshua W. Hathaway | Bangor, Maine | May 11, 1852– May 10, 1859 | |||||
14 | Jonas Cutting | Bangor, Maine | April 20, 1854– | |||||
15 | Seth May | Winthrop, Maine | May 6, 1855– May 7, 1862 | |||||
16 | Woodbury Davis | Portland, Maine | October 10, 1855– 1865 | resignation | ||||
17 | Daniel Goodenow | Alfred, Maine | October 10, 1855– October 10, 1862 | |||||
18 | Edward Kent | Bangor, Maine | May 11, 1859–1873 | |||||
19 | Charles W. Walton | Deering, Maine | May 14, 1862– May 15, 1897 | |||||
20 | Jonathan G. Dickerson | Belfast, Maine | October 24, 1862– September 1, 1878 | death | ||||
21 | Edward Fox | Portland, Maine | October 24, 1862– 1863 | resignation | ||||
22 | William G. Barrows | Brunswick, Maine | March 27, 1863– | |||||
23 | Charles Danforth | Gardiner, Maine | January 5, 1864– March 30, 1890 | death | ||||
24 | Rufus P. Tapley | Saco, Maine | December 21, 1865– | |||||
25 | William Wirt Virgin | Portland, Maine | December 26, 1872– January 23, 1893 | death | ||||
26 | John A. Peters | Bangor, Maine | May 20, 1873– January 1, 1900 | resignation | ||||
27 | Artemus Libbey | Augusta, Maine | April 24, 1875– March 15, 1894 | death | ||||
28 | Joseph W. Symonds | Portland, Maine | October 16, 1878– March 31, 1884 | resignation | ||||
29 | Lucilius A. Emery | Ellsworth, Maine | October 5, 1883– July 26, 1911 | resignation | ||||
30 | Enoch Foster | Bethel, Maine | March 24, 1884– | |||||
31 | Thomas H. Haskell | Portland, Maine | March 31, 1884– September 24, 1900 | death | ||||
32 | William Penn Whitehouse | Augusta, Maine | April 15, 1890– April 8, 1913 | resignation | ||||
33 | Andrew P. Wiswell | Ellsworth, Maine | April 10, 1893– December 4, 1906 | January 2, 1900– December 4, 1906 | ||||
34 | Sewall C. Strout | Portland, Maine | April 12, 1894– | |||||
35 | Albert R. Savage | Auburn, Maine | May 15, 1897– June 14, 1917 | death | ||||
36 | William H. Fogler | Rockland, Maine | March 25, 1898– February 18, 1902 | death | ||||
37 | Frederick A. Powers | Houlton, Maine | January 2, 1900–1907 | |||||
38 | Henry C. Peabody | Portland, Maine | November 29, 1900– March 31, 1911 | death | ||||
39 | Albert M. Spear | Gardiner, Maine | March 1, 1902– July 24, 1923 | retirement | ||||
40 | Charles F. Woodard | Bangor, Maine | December 14, 1906– June 17, 1907 | death | ||||
41 | Leslie C. Cornish | Augusta, Maine | March 31, 1907– March 1, 1925 | June 25, 1917- March 1, 1925 | resignation | |||
42 | Arno W. King | Ellsworth, Maine | June 28, 1907– July 21, 1918 | death | ||||
43 | George E. Bird | Portland, Maine | April 13, 1908– October 23, 1923 | retirement | ||||
44 | George F. Haley | Biddeford, Maine | April 12, 1911– | |||||
45 | George M. Hanson | Calais, Maine | July 26, 1911– April 4, 1924 | death | ||||
46 | Warren C. Philbrook | Waterville, Maine | April 9, 1913– November 29, 1928 | retirement | ||||
47 | John B. Madigan | Houlton, Maine | March 1, 1916– January 19, 1918 | death | ||||
48 | Charles J. Dunn | Orono, Maine | February 6, 1918– November 10, 1939 | death | ||||
49 | John A. Morrill | Auburn, Maine | March 5, 1918– June 4, 1926 | retirement | ||||
50 | Scott Wilson | Portland, Maine | August 7, 1918– October 7, 1929 | March 1, 1925– October 7, 1929 | ||||
51 | Luere B. Deasy | Bar Harbor, Maine | September 25, 1918– February 7, 1930 | resignation | ||||
52 | Guy H. Sturgis | Portland, Maine | August 13, 1923– March 8, 1949 | retirement | ||||
53 | Charles P. Barnes | Houlton, Maine | April 17, 1924– July 31, 1940 | resignation | ||||
54 | Norman L. Bassett | Augusta, Maine | March 26, 1925– | |||||
55 | William Robinson Pattangall | Augusta, Maine | July 2, 1926– July 16, 1935 | February 7, 1930– July 16, 1935 | ||||
56 | Frank G. Farrington | Augusta, Maine | November 16, 1928– | |||||
57 | Sidney St. Felix Thaxter | Portland, Maine | September 16, 1930– February 28, 1954 | resignation | ||||
58 | James H. Hudson | Guilford, Maine | November 20, 1933– August 21, 1947 | death | ||||
59 | Harry Manser | Auburn, Maine | July 18, 1935– March 20, 1946 | resignation | ||||
60 | George H. Worster | December 21, 1939– July 31, 1942 | resignation | |||||
61 | Harold H. Murchie | Calais, Maine | August 8, 1940– March 7, 1953 | March 8, 1949– March 7, 1953 | ||||
62 | Arthur Chapman | Portland, Maine | November 4, 1942– July 27, 1945 | resignation | ||||
63 | Nathaniel Tompkins | Houlton, Maine | July 27, 1945– April 22, 1949 | death | ||||
64 | Raymond Fellows | Bangor, Maine | May 1, 1946– September 15, 1956 | April 7, 1954– September 15, 1956 | ||||
65 | Edward P. Murray | Bangor, Maine | September 18, 1947– April 6, 1948 | resignation | ||||
66 | Edward F. Merrill | Skowhegan, Maine | June 2, 1948– April 7, 1954 | March 18, 1953– April 7, 1954 | ||||
67 | William B. Nulty | Portland, Maine | March 16, 1949– September 11, 1953 | death | ||||
68 | Robert B. Williamson | Augusta, Maine | May 5, 1949– August 21, 1970 | October 4, 1956– August 21, 1970 | ||||
69 | Frank A. Tirrell, Jr. | Camden, Maine | March 18, 1953– June 4, 1955 | death | ||||
70 | Donald W. Webber | Auburn, Maine | October 8, 1953– July 31, 1973 | retirement | ||||
71 | Albert Beliveau | Rumford, Maine | March 3, 1954– March 25, 1958 | resignation | ||||
72 | Walter M. Tapley, Jr. | Portland, Maine | May 5, 1954– June 30, 1969 | retirement | ||||
73 | Percy T. Clarke | Ellsworth, Maine | March 3, 1955– June 15, 1956 | retirement | ||||
74 | F. Harold Dubord | Waterville, Maine | October 4, 1956– December 10, 1962 | resignation | ||||
75 | Francis W. Sullivan | Portland, Maine | October 4, 1956– July 10, 1965 | resignation | ||||
76 | Cecil J. Siddall | Sanford, Maine | May 7, 1958– February 27, 1965 | resignation | ||||
77 | Harold C. Marden | December 10, 1962– November 15, 1970 | retirement | |||||
78 | Abraham M. Rudman | Bangor, Maine | March 1, 1965– December 14, 1966 | resignation | ||||
79 | Armand A. Dufresne, Jr. | Lewiston, Maine | August 25, 1965– September 16, 1977 | retirement | ||||
80 | Randolph A. Weatherbee | Bangor, Maine | December 21, 1966– May 20, 1976 | death | ||||
81 | Charles A. Pomeroy | Windham, Maine | July 2, 1969– January 1, 1980 | retirement | ||||
82 | Sidney W. Wernick | Portland, Maine | September 30, 1970– August 24, 1981 | retirement | ||||
83 | James P. Archibald | Houlton, Maine | January 27, 1971– January 1, 1980 | retirement | ||||
84 | Thomas E. Delahanty | Lewiston, Maine | July 26, 1914- February 4, 1985 | September 5, 1973– August 31, 1979 | retirement | |||
85 | Edward S. Godfrey | Portland, Maine | September 1, 1976– September 1, 1983 | retirement | ||||
86 | David A. Nichols | Lincolnville, Maine | May 24, 1977– May 31, 1988 | retirement | ||||
87 | Vincent L. McKusick | Cape Elizabeth, Maine | October 21, 1921- December 3, 2014 | September 16, 1977– February 28, 1992 | September 17, 1977– February 28, 1992 | |||
88 | Harry P. Glassman | Portland, Maine | August 31, 1979– May 15, 1981 | death | ||||
89 | David G. Roberts | Portland, Maine | January 11, 1980– August 31, 1998 | retirement | ||||
90 | Gene Carter | Bangor, Maine | September 15, 1980– July 5, 1983 | resignation | ||||
91 | Elmer H. Violette | Van Buren, Maine | August 31, 1981– August 1, 1986 | resignation | ||||
92 | Daniel E. Wathen | Augusta, Maine | August 31, 1981– October 4, 2001 | March 20, 1992– October 4, 2001 | ||||
93 | Caroline Duby Glassman | Portland, Maine | August 30, 1983– September 1, 1997 | retirement | ||||
94 | Louis Scolnik | Auburn, Maine | September 7, 1983– July 31, 1988 | retirement | ||||
95 | Robert W. Clifford | Auburn, Maine | August 1, 1986– | Joseph E. Brennan | ||||
96 | D. Brock Hornby | June 10, 1988– May 7, 1990 | John R. McKernan, Jr. | resignation | ||||
97 | Samuel Collins, Jr. | Rockland, Maine | September 16, 1988– March 15, 1994 | John R. McKernan, Jr. | retirement | |||
98 | Morton A. Brody | Augusta, Maine | June 6, 1990– August 9, 1991 | John R. McKernan, Jr. | resignation | |||
99 | Paul L. Rudman | Bangor, Maine | June 5, 1992– July 1, 2005 | John R. McKernan, Jr. | resignation | |||
100 | Howard H. Dana, Jr. | Portland, Maine | March 4, 1993– March 2, 2007 | John R. McKernan, Jr. | ||||
101 | Kermit V. Lipez | Portland, Maine | May 12, 1994– June 30, 1998 | John R. McKernan, Jr. | resignation | |||
102 | Leigh I. Saufley | October 20, 1997– | December 6, 2001– | Angus King | ||||
103 | Donald G. Alexander | September 2, 1998– | Angus King | |||||
104 | Susan W. Calkins | September 2, 1998– | Angus King | |||||
105 | Jon D. Levy | March 7, 2002– May 2, 2014 | Angus King | appointment to United States District Court of Maine | ||||
106 | Warren M. Silver | July 29, 2005–December 31, 2014 | John Baldacci | |||||
107 | Andrew Mead | Bangor, Maine | May 24, 2007– | John Baldacci | ||||
108 | Ellen A. Gorman | Portland, Maine | October 1, 2007– | John Baldacci | ||||
109 | Joseph M. Jabar | Augusta, Maine | September 1, 2009– | John Baldacci |
See also
External links
- Maine Supreme Judicial Court Chronological List
- Maine Supreme Judicial Court official website
- The Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Maine, 1820 to 2007 - Cleaves Law Library
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