List of judges of the Supreme Court of Missouri
The following is a list of all of the individuals who have served on the Supreme Court of Missouri.
Missouri's Supreme Court had three judges from 1820 until 1872, when it was increased to five. In 1890 the number of judges was increased to seven, which is still the standard.
Only the Chief Justice is referred to as "justice" while other members are referred to as "judge." The chief justice is typically elected to a two-year term on a rotating basis by a vote of the Supreme Court judges.[1]
Name | County | Term as Judge |
Mathias McGirk | Montgomery | 1821–1841 |
Cape Girardeau | 1821–1823 | |
John Rice Jones | Washington | 1821–1824 |
St. Louis | 1823–1825 | |
George Tompkins | Howard | 1824–1845 |
Robert Wash | St. Louis | 1825–1837 |
John Cummins Edwards | Cole | 1837–1839 |
William Barclay Napton | Saline | 1839–1849 |
William Scott | Cole | 1841–1843 |
Priestly H. McBride | Monroe | 1845–1848 |
John Ferguson Ryland | Lafayette | 1849 |
James Harvey Birch | Clinton | 1849 |
James Harvey Birch | Clinton | 1850–1851 |
John Ferguson Ryland | Lafayette | 1850–1857 |
Hamilton Rowan Gamble | St. Louis | 1850–1855 |
William Scott | Cole | 1851–1862 |
Abiel Leonard | Howard | 1855–1857 |
St. Louis | 1857–1859 | |
William Barclay Napton | Saline | 1857–1861 |
Ephraim Brevard Ewing | Ray | 1859–1861 1873 |
Barton Bates | St. Charles | 1862–1865 |
Marion | 1862–1865 | |
William Van Ness Bay | St. Louis | 1862–1865 |
David Wagner | Lewis | 1865–1877 |
Montgomery | 1865–1866 | |
St. Louis | 1865–1868 | |
Pike | 1866–1868 | |
Greene | 1868 | |
Philemon Bliss | Buchanan | 1868–1872 |
St. Louis | 1868–1872 | |
Cooper | 1871–1874 | |
William Barclay Napton | Saline | 1873–1880 |
Buchanan | 1873–1876 | |
Thomas Adiel Sherwood | Greene | 1873–1902 |
St. Louis | 1874 | |
Warwick Hough | Jackson | 1875–1884 |
Elijah Hise Norton | Platte | 1877–1888 |
Macon | 1876–1888 | |
Carroll | 1881–1890 | |
Francis Marion Black | Jackson | 1885–1894 |
Monroe | 1887–1907 | |
St. Louis | 1889–1898 | |
Henry | 1891–1910 | |
Jefferson | 1890–1892 | |
George Bennett MacFarlane | Audrain | 1890–1898 |
Linn | 1893–1910 | |
Jasper | 1895–1904 | |
Cooper | 1898 | |
St. Louis | 1899–1906 | |
St. Louis | 1899–1912 | |
Madison | 1903–1910 | |
Pettis | 1905–1914 | |
Waller Washington Graves | Bates | 1906–1928 |
Archelaus Marius Woodson | Buchanan | 1907–1925 |
Franklin Ferriss | St. Louis | 1910–1912 |
Jackson | 1910–1913 | |
Carter | 1911–1915 | |
Henry Whitelaw Bond | St. Louis | 1913–1919 |
Charles Breckenridge Faris | Pemiscot | 1913–1919 |
Morgan | 1913–1930 | |
DeKalb | 1915–1924 | |
St. Francois | 1915–1916 | |
Jasper | 1917–1920 | |
Jackson | 1919–1920 | |
St. Louis | 1919–1922 | |
Conway Elder | St. Louis | 1921–1922 |
Adair | 1921–1922 | |
Jasper | 1921–1930 | |
William T. Ragland | Monroe | 1922–1932[2] |
Greene | 1923–1932 | |
Carroll | 1925–1934 | |
Franklin | 1925–1926 | |
Audrain | 1927–1946 | |
North Todd Gentry | Boone | 1928 |
Adair | 1929–1938 | |
Marion | 1930–1932 | |
Nodaway | 1931–1955 | |
Marion | 1933–1942 | |
Clarence A. Burney | Jackson | 1933 |
Ernest M. Tipton | Jackson | 1933–1955 |
Jackson | 1933–1964 | |
St. Louis | 1935 | |
John Caskie Collet | Chariton | 1935–1937 |
St. Louis | 1937–1949 | |
Raymond B. Lucas | Scott | 1938 |
Ray | 1939–1950 | |
Laurance M. Hyde | Mercer | 1943–1966 |
Roscoe P. Conkling | Buchanan | 1947–1954 |
Cape Girardeau | 1950–1965 | |
Audrain | 1950–1964 | |
Howard | 1954–1963 | |
Jackson | 1955–1968 | |
St. Louis City | 1955–1970 | |
Randolph | 1963–1977 | |
Fred L. Henley | Pemiscot | 1964–1978 |
James A. Finch Jr. | Cape Girardeau | 1965–1978 |
Robert True Donnelly | Laclede | 1965–1988 |
Robert Eldridge Seiler | Jasper | 1967–1982 |
June P. (J. P.) Morgan | Livingston | 1969–1982 |
John E. Bardgett | St. Louis | 1970–1982 |
Albert L. Rendlen | Marion | 1977–1992 |
Joseph J. Simeone | St. Louis | 1978–1979 |
Warren Dee Welliver | Boone | 1979–1989 |
Andrew Jackson Higgins | Platte | 1979–1991 |
George F. Gunn Jr. | St. Louis | 1982–1985 |
William Howard Billings | Dunklin | 1982–1991 |
Charles Blakey Blackmar | St. Louis | 1982–1992 |
Edward D. Robertson Jr. | Cole | 1985–1998 |
Ann K. Covington | Boone | 1989–2001 |
John C. Holstein | Howell | 1989–2002 |
Duane Benton | Cole | 1991–2004 |
Elwood L. Thomas | Clay | 1991–1995 |
William Ray Price Jr. | Jackson | 1992-2012 |
Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. | Cape Girardeau | 1992–2008 |
Ronnie L. White | St. Louis | 1995–2007 |
Michael A. Wolff | St. Louis | 1998–2011 |
Laura Denvir Stith | Jackson | 2001–2021 |
Richard B. Teitelman | St. Louis City | 2002–2016 |
Mary Rhodes Russell | Marion | 2004–present |
Patricia Breckenridge | Vernon | 2007–present |
Zel Fischer | Atchison | 2008–present |
George W. Draper III | St. Louis | 2011–present |
Paul C. Wilson | Boone | 2012–present |
W. Brent Powell | Greene | 2017–present |
Robin Ransom | St. Louis | 2021–present |
References[]
- ^ Supreme Court Judges – courts.mo.gov – Retrieved November 5, 2007 Archived February 4, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Chillicothe Constitution Tribune Archives, Jun 7, 1952, p. 6". NewspaperArchive.com. 7 June 1952. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
- Official Manual, State of Missouri, 2005-2006. Jefferson City, MO:Secretary of State.
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