List of justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Following is a list of justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

Current justices[]

Title	Name	Began active service	Appointed by	Reaches age 70
Chief Justice	Kimberly S. Budd	2020	Charlie Baker	2036
Associate Justice	Frank Gaziano	2016		2034
Associate Justice	David A. Lowy	2016		2031
Associate Justice	Elspeth B. Cypher	2017^[1]		2029
Associate Justice	Scott L. Kafker	2017		2029
Associate Justice	Dalila Argaez Wendlandt	2020		2038
Associate Justice	Serge Georges Jr.	2020		2038

List of justices[]

Superior Court of Judicature (1692–1775)[]

Justice		Position	Succeeded	Tenure	Appointed by
1	William Stoughton (1631–1701)	Chief Justice	Inaugural^[a]	1692 – July 7, 1701 (Died)	Sir William Phips
2	Thomas Danforth (bapt. 1623–1699)	Associate Justice	Inaugural^[a]	1692 – November 5, 1699 (Died)
3	Wait Winthrop (1642–1717)	Associate Justice	Inaugural^[a]	1692 – 1701 (Continued as Chief Justice)
4	John Richards (bef. 1630–1694)	Associate Justice	Inaugural^[a]	1692 – April 2, 1694 (Died)
5	Samuel Sewall (1652–1730)	Associate Justice	Inaugural^[a]	1692 – 1718 (Continued as Chief Justice)
6	Elisha Cooke Sr. (1637–1715)	Associate Justice	J. Richards	1695 – 1702 (Resigned)	William Stoughton
7	(d. 1712)	Associate Justice	T. Danforth	1700 – 1712 (Died)	William Stoughton
2	Wait Winthrop (1642–1717)	Chief Justice	W. Stoughton	1701 – 1701 (Resigned)	Governor's Council
7	John Saffin (bapt. 1626–1710)	Associate Justice	W. Winthrop	1701 – 1702 (Appointment not renewed)	Governor's Council
8	Isaac Addington (1645–1719)	Chief Justice	W. Winthrop	1702 – 1703 (Resigned)	Joseph Dudley
9	John Hathorne (1641–1717)	Associate Justice	E. Cooke	1702 – 1712 (Resigned)
10	John Leverett the Younger (1662–1724)	Associate Justice	J. Saffin	1702 – 1708 (Resigned)
11	Jonathan Corwin (1640–1718)	Associate Justice	J. Leverett	1708 – 1717 (Appointment not renewed)
2	Wait Winthrop (1642–1717)	Chief Justice	I. Addington (1702)	1708 – November 7, 1717 (Died)
12	Benjamin Lynde Sr. (1666–1749)	Associate Justice	Lynde and Thomas were appointed to fill vacancies created by the death of John Whalley and the resignation of John Hathorne.	1712 – 1729 (Continued as Chief Justice)
13	Nathaniel Thomas (1643–1718)	Associate Justice		1712 – October 22, 1718 (Died)
14	Addington Davenport (1670–1736)	Associate Justice	J. Corwin	December 9, 1715 – April 3, 1736 (Died)	William Tailer
5	Samuel Sewall (1652–1730)	Chief Justice	W. Winthrop	1718 – 1728 (Resigned)	Samuel Shute
15	Edmund Quincy III (1681–1737)	Associate Justice	Quincy and Dudley were appointed to fill vacancies created by the deaths of Wait Winthrop and Nathaniel Thomas.	1718 – February 23, 1737 (Died)
16	Paul Dudley (1666–1751)	Associate Justice		1718 – 1751 (Continued as Chief Justice)
12	Benjamin Lynde Sr. (1666–1749)	Chief Justice	Sa. Sewall	1729 – January 28, 1745 (Died)	William Burnet
17		Associate Justice	B. Lynde Sr.	1728 – 1733 (Resigned)	William Burnet
18	Jonathan Remington (1677–1745)	Associate Justice	J. Cushing	1733 – September 20, 1745 (Died)	Jonathan Belcher
19		Associate Justice	A. Davenport	1736 – 1756 (Resigned)
20	Thomas Graves	Associate Justice	E. Quincy	1737 – 1738 (Resigned)
21	Stephen Sewall (1702–1760)	Associate Justice	T. Graves	1739 – 1745 (Continued as Chief Justice)
16	Paul Dudley (1666–1751)	Chief Justice	B. Lynde Sr.	1745 – January 25, 1751 (Died)	William Shirley
22	Nathaniel Hubbard	Associate Justice	P. Dudley	1745 – 1746
23	Benjamin Lynde Jr.	Associate Justice	J. Remington	1747 – 1769 (Continued as Chief Justice)
24		Associate Justice	N. Hubbard	1747 – 1771 (Resigned)
21	Stephen Sewall (1702–1760)	Chief Justice	P. Dudley	1751 – September 10, 1760 (Died)
25	Chambers Russell	Associate Justice	St. Sewall	1752 – 1766 (Died)	Spencer Phips
26	Peter Oliver (1713–1791)	Associate Justice	R. Saltonstall	1756 – 1772 (Continued as Chief Justice)	William Shirley
27	Thomas Hutchinson (1711–1780)	Chief Justice	St. Sewall	1761 – 1769 (Became Acting Governor)	Francis Bernard
28	Edmund Trowbridge (1709–1793)	Associate Justice	C. Russell	1767 – 1775 (Removed from office)	Francis Bernard
29	Benjamin Lynde Jr.	Chief Justice	T. Hutchinson	1769 – 1771 (Resigned)	Thomas Hutchinson
30	Foster Hutchinson (1724–1799)	Associate Justice	B. Lynde Jr.	1771 – 1775 (Removed from office)
31	(d. 1774)	Associate Justice	Ropes and Cushing were appointed to replace John Cushing and Benjamin Lynde Jr., both of whom resigned. Peter Oliver was named Chief Justice, replacing Lynde.	1772 – 1774 (Died)
32	William Cushing (1732–1810)	Associate Justice		1772 – 1775 (Reorganization of Court)
26	Peter Oliver (1713–1791)	Chief Justice		1772 – 1775 (Removed from office)
33	William Brown	Associate Justice	N. Ropes	1774 – 1775 (Removed from office)

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e All judges appointed before 1695 were reappointed in that year (except John Richards, who had died) because the legislation creating the court was vetoed in that year by the Privy Council. Several further attempts to legislate the court's existence were vetoed, and it was not until 1699 that the provincial assembly enacted laws creating courts that satisfied the Privy Council.

Justices appointed by the Provincial Congress (1775–80)[]

Justice		Position	Succeeded	Tenure	Appointed by
1	John Adams (1735–1826)	Chief Justice	Inaugural	1775 – 1776 (Never presided, resigned)
2	William Cushing (1732–1810)	Associate Justice	Inaugural	1775 – 1776 (Continued as Chief Justice)
3	Nathaniel Sargent (1731–1791)	Associate Justice	Inaugural	1775 – 1780 (Constitution of 1780)
4	Jedediah Foster (1726–1779)	Associate Justice	Inaugural	1776 – October 17, 1779 (Died)
5	James Sullivan (1744–1808)	Associate Justice	Inaugural	March 1776 – 1780 (Constitution of 1780)
2	William Cushing (1732–1810)	Chief Justice	J. Adams	1777 – 1780 (Constitution of 1780)	Governor's Council
6	David Sewall (1735–1825)	Associate Justice	W. Cushing	1777 – 1780 (Constitution of 1780)

Three men declined appointment to the Court during this period: William Reed in 1775, Robert Treat Paine in 1776, and James Warren in 1777.

Justices under the State Constitution (1780–present)[]

	Position	Succeeded	Tenure	Appointed by
William Cushing (1732–1810)	Chief Justice	Inaugural	1780 – 1789 (Appointed to Supreme Court of the United States)
Nathaniel Sargent (1731–1791)	Associate Justice	Inaugural	1780 – 1791 (Continued as Chief Justice)
David Sewall (1735–1825)	Associate Justice	Inaugural	1780 – 1789 (Appointed to U.S. District Court)
James Sullivan (1744–1808)	Associate Justice	Inaugural	1780 – 1782 (Resigned)
Francis Dana (1743–1811)	Associate Justice	J. Foster (1779)	1785 – 1806 (Continued as Chief Justice)
Increase Sumner (1746–1799)	Associate Justice	J. Sullivan	1782 – 1787 (Resigned to become Governor)	John Hancock
Nathaniel Sargent (1731–1791)	Chief Justice	W. Cushing	1790 – October 2, 1791 (Died)
Robert Treat Paine (1731–1814)	Associate Justice	D. Sewall	1790 – 1804 (Resigned)
Nathan Cushing	Associate Justice	N. Sargent (as Associate Justice)	1790 – 1800 (Resigned)
Francis Dana (1743–1811)	Chief Justice	N. Sargent (as Chief Justice)	1791 – 1806 (Resigned)
Thomas Dawes (1731–1809)	Associate Justice	F. Dana	1792 – 1802 (Resigned)
Theophilus Bradbury (1739–1803)	Associate Justice	I. Sumner	1797 – July 1803 (Removed due to poor health)
Samuel Sewall (1750–1814)	Associate Justice	N. Cushing	1800 – 1814 (Continued as Chief Justice)	Caleb Strong
Theodore Sedgwick (1746–1813)	Associate Justice	T. Dawes	1802 – January 24, 1813 (Died)
Simeon Strong (1735–1805)	Associate Justice	Inaugural	1801 – 1805 (Died)
George Thatcher (1754–1824)	Associate Justice	Inaugural	1801 – January 1824 (Resigned)
Theophilus Parsons (1750–1813)	Chief Justice	F. Dana	1806 – October 13, 1813 (Died)
Isaac Parker (1768–1830)	Associate Justice	S. Strong	1806 – 1814 (Continued as Chief Justice)
Charles Jackson (1768–1830)	Associate Justice	T. Sedgwick	1813 – 1823 (Resigned)
Samuel Sewall (1750–1814)	Chief Justice	T. Parsons	1814 – June 8, 1814 (Died)
Daniel Dewey (1766–1815)	Associate Justice	S. Sewall	1814 – May 26, 1815 (Died)
	Associate Justice	I. Parker (as Associate Justice)	1814 – 1842 (Resigned)
Isaac Parker (1768–1830)	Chief Justice	S. Sewall	1814 – July 25, 1830 (Died)
Samuel Wilde (1771–1855)	Associate Justice	D. Dewey	1815 – 1850 (Resigned)
Levi Lincoln Jr. (1782–1868)	Associate Justice	G. Thatcher	1824 – 1825 (Elected Governor)	William Eustis
Marcus Morton (1784–1864)	Associate Justice	L. Lincoln Jr.	1825 – 1840 (Elected Governor)	Levi Lincoln Jr.
Lemuel Shaw (1781–1861)	Chief Justice	I. Parker	August 30, 1830 – August 21, 1860 (Resigned)	Levi Lincoln Jr.
Charles Augustus Dewey (d. 1866)	Associate Justice	Inaugural	1837 – 1866 (Died)	Edward Everett
(d. 1847)	Associate Justice	S. Putnam	1842 – 1847 (Died)	John Davis
Theron Metcalf (1784–1875)	Associate Justice	M. Morton I (1840)	1848 – 1865 (Resigned)	George N. Briggs
	Associate Justice		1848 – 1848 (Resigned)
Richard Fletcher (1788–1869)	Associate Justice	C. Forbes	1848 – 1853 (Resigned)
	Associate Justice	S. Wilde	1850 – 1860 (Continued as Chief Justice)
Caleb Cushing (1800–1879)	Associate Justice	Inaugural	1852 – 1853 (Appointed U.S. Attorney General)	George S. Boutwell
Benjamin Thomas (1813–1878)	Associate Justice	R. Fletcher	1853 – 1859 (Resigned)	John H. Clifford
Pliny Merrick (1794–1867)	Associate Justice		1853 – 1864 (Resigned)	John H. Clifford
Ebenezer R. Hoar (1801–1873)	Associate Justice	J. Nolan	1859 – 1869 (Appointed U.S. Attorney General)	Nathaniel Prentice Banks
George Tyler Bigelow	Chief Justice	L. Shaw	1860 – 1867 (Resigned)
Reuben Atwater Chapman (1801–1873)	Associate Justice		1860 – 1868 (Continued as Chief Justice)
Horace Gray (1828–1902)	Associate Justice	N. Clifford	1864 – September 15, 1873 (Continued as Chief Justice)	John Albion Andrew
James Denison Colt (1819–1881)	Associate Justice	T. Metcalf	1865 – 1866 (Resigned)	John Albion Andrew
Dwight Foster (1828–1884)	Associate Justice	C. A. Dewey	1866 – 1869 (Resigned)	Alexander H. Bullock
(d. 1875)	Associate Justice	J. D. Colt	1866 – 1875 (Died)
Reuben Atwater Chapman (1801–1873)	Chief Justice	G. T. Bigelow	1868 – June 28, 1873 (Died)
James Denison Colt (1819–1881)	Associate Justice	R. A. Chapman	1868 – 1881 (Died)
Marcus Morton II (1819–1891)	Associate Justice	E. Hoar	1869 – 1882 (Continued as Chief Justice)	William Claflin
Seth Ames	Associate Justice	D. Foster	1869 – 1881 (Resigned)	William Claflin
Horace Gray (1828–1902)	Chief Justice	R. A. Chapman	September 15, 1873 – January 9, 1882 (Appointed to Supreme Court of the United States)	William B. Washburn
Charles Devens (1820–1891)	Associate Justice	H. Gray	1873 – 1877 (Appointed U.S. Attorney General)
William Endicott (1826–1900)	Associate Justice	Inaugural	1873 – 1882 (Resigned)
Otis Lord (1812–1884)	Associate Justice	J. Wells	1875 – 1882 (Resigned)	William Gaston
Augustus Soule (1827–1887)	Associate Justice		March 27, 1877 – April 11, 1881 (Resigned)	Alexander H. Rice
Walbridge A. Field (1833–1899)	Associate Justice	S. Ames	1881 – September 4, 1890 (Continued as Chief Justice)	John D. Long
	Associate Justice		1881 – 1891 (Died)
Charles Devens (1820–1891)	Associate Justice	A. Soule	1881 – 1891 (Died)
Marcus Morton II (1819–1891)	Chief Justice	H. Gray	1882 – 1890 (Resigned)
Waldo Colburn (1824–1885)	Associate Justice	W. C. Endicott	November 10, 1882 – September 26, 1885 (Died)
Charles Allen (1819–1891)	Associate Justice	M. Morton II	1882 – 1898 (Resigned)
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1833–1899)	Associate Justice	O. Lord	1882 – 1899 (Continued as Chief Justice)
William Gardner	Associate Justice		1885 – 1887 (Resigned)	George D. Robinson
Marcus Perrin Knowlton (1839–1918)	Associate Justice	W. Gardner	1887 – 1902 (Continued as Chief Justice)	Oliver Ames
Walbridge A. Field (1833–1899)	Chief Justice	M. Morton	September 4, 1890 – July 15, 1899 (Died)	John Q. A. Brackett
James Madison Morton Sr.	Associate Justice		1890 – 1913 (Resigned)
James Barker (1839–1905)	Associate Justice	W. Allen	1891 – October 2, 1905 (Died)	William Russell
John Lathrop	Associate Justice		1891 – 1906 (Resigned)
	Associate Justice		1898}} – 1914 (Resigned)	Roger Wolcott
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1833–1899)	Chief Justice	W. A. Field	August 2, 1899 – December 4, 1902 (Appointed to Supreme Court of the United States)
William Loring (1851–1930)	Associate Justice	O. W. Holmes	September 7, 1899 – September 16, 1919 (Resigned)
Henry Braley	Associate Justice		1902 – 1929 (Died)	Winthrop M. Crane
Marcus Perrin Knowlton (1839–1918)	Chief Justice	O. W. Holmes	1902 – September 7, 1911 (Resigned)	Winthrop M. Crane
	Associate Justice	Barker	1905 – 1915 (Resigned)	William Lewis Douglas
Arthur Prentice Rugg (1862–1938)	Associate Justice	J. Lathrop	1906 – 1911 (Continued as Chief Justice)	Curtis Guild Jr.
Arthur Prentice Rugg (1862–1938)	Chief Justice	M. P. Knowlton	1911 – June 12, 1938 (Died)	Eugene Foss
(d. 1924)	Associate Justice		1911 – 1924 (Died)	Eugene Foss
John C. Crosby (1859–1943)	Associate Justice	J. Morton	December 31, 1913 – October 1, 1937 (Resigned)	David I. Walsh
Edward Pierce	Associate Justice		1914 – 1937 (Resigned)
(d. 1932)	Associate Justice	Sheldon	1915 – 1932 (Died)
Charles Jenney (1860–1923)	Associate Justice	W. Loring	1919 – November 29, 1923 (Died)	Calvin Coolidge
William C. Wait	Associate Justice		1923 – 1934 (Resigned)	Channing H. Cox
(d. 1932)	Associate Justice		1924 – 1932 (Died)	Channing H. Cox
Fred Tarbell Field (1876–1950)	Associate Justice	H. Braley	January 30, 1929 – June 30, 1938 (Continued as Chief Justice)	Frank G. Allen
Charles Donahue (1877–1952)	Associate Justice		March 17, 1932 – April 26, 1944 (Resigned)	Joseph B. Ely
	Associate Justice		1932 – 1955
Stanley Elroy Qua (1880–1965)	Associate Justice		1934 – 1947 (Continued as Chief Justice)
Arthur Dolan (1876–1949)	Associate Justice	J. C. Crosby	1937 – August 20, 1949 (Resigned)	Charles F. Hurley
Louis Cox	Associate Justice	Edward Pierce	1937 – 1944
Fred Tarbell Field (1876–1950)	Chief Justice	A. P. Rugg	June 30, 1938 – July 24, 1947 (Resigned)
	Associate Justice	F. T. Field	1938 – 1959 (Died)
	Associate Justice	L. Cox	1944 – 1956 (Continued as Chief Justice)	Leverett Saltonstall
	Associate Justice	Donahue	1944 – 1971	Leverett Saltonstall
Stanley Elroy Qua (1880–1965)	Chief Justice	F. T. Field	1947 – 1956 (Resigned)	Robert F. Bradford
Harold P. Williams (1882–1963)	Associate Justice	S. Qua	1947 – 1962 (Resigned)	Robert F. Bradford
	Associate Justice	Dolan	1949 – 1960	Paul A. Dever
Arthur Whittemore (1896–1969)	Associate Justice	H. Lummus	October 1955 – October 1, 1969 (Died)	Christian Herter
Raymond Sanger Wilkins	Chief Justice	S. E. Qua	1956 – 1970 (Resigned)
	Associate Justice		1956 – 1972
Paul G. Kirk Sr. (1905–1981)	Associate Justice	E. Counihan	November 23, 1960 – December 15, 1970 (Resigned)	Foster Furcolo
Jacob Spiegel	Associate Justice	Ronan	1960 – 1972	Foster Furcolo
G. Joseph Tauro (1906–1994)	Associate Justice		1961 – 1970 (Continued as Chief Justice)	John Volpe
Paul Reardon	Associate Justice	H. P. Williams	1962 – 1977	John Volpe
G. Joseph Tauro (1906–1994)	Chief Justice	R. S. Wilkins	1970 – 1976 (Mandatory retirement)
	Associate Justice		1969 – 1981	Francis W. Sargent
Robert Braucher (1916–1981)	Associate Justice	P. Kirk	January 18, 1971 – August 26, 1981 (Died)
Edward F. Hennessey (1919–2007)	Associate Justice	J. Spalding	1971 – 1976 (Continued as Chief Justice)
Benjamin Kaplan (1911–2010)	Associate Justice	R. A. Cutter	1972 – 1981 (Mandatory retirement)
Herbert P. Wilkins	Associate Justice	J. Spiegel	1972 – 1996 (Continued as Chief Justice)
Edward F. Hennessey (1919–2007)	Chief Justice	G. J. Tauro	1976 – 1989 (Mandatory retirement)	Michael Dukakis
Paul J. Liacos (1929–1999)	Associate Justice	E. Hennessey	1976 – June 20, 1986 (Continued as Chief Justice)
Ruth Abrams (1930–2019)	Associate Justice	P. Reardon	1978 – 2000 (Mandatory retirement)
Joseph R. Nolan (1925–2013)	Associate Justice	Quirico	1981 – 1995 (Mandatory retirement)	Edward J. King
Neil L. Lynch	Associate Justice	Kaplan	1981 – 2000
Francis Patrick O'Connor (1927–2007)	Associate Justice	R. Braucher	1981 – 1997 (Mandatory retirement)
Paul J. Liacos (1929–1999)	Chief Justice	E. Hennessey	June 20, 1986 – September 30, 1996 (Resigned)	Michael Dukakis
John M. Greaney (1939–)	Associate Justice	P. Liacos	1989 – 2008 (Resigned)	Michael Dukakis
Charles Fried (1944–)	Associate Justice	J. Nolan	September 1995 – June 1999 (Resigned)	William Weld
Margaret H. Marshall (1944–)	Associate Justice		1996 – October 14, 1999 (Continued as Chief Justice)
Herbert P. Wilkins	Chief Justice	P. Liacos	1996 – October 13, 1999 (Resigned)
Roderick L. Ireland (1944–)	Associate Justice		1997 – December 20, 2010 (Continued as Chief Justice)
Margaret H. Marshall (1944–)	Chief Justice	H. Wilkins	October 14, 1999 – October 31, 2010 (Resigned)	Paul Cellucci
Judith Cowin (1942–)	Associate Justice	C. Fried	1999 – 2011 (Resigned)
Francis X. Spina (1946–)	Associate Justice	M. Marshall	1999 – August 12, 2016 (Mandatory retirement)
Martha B. Sosman (1950–2007)	Associate Justice	N. Lynch	2000 – March 10, 2007 (Died)
Robert J. Cordy (1949–)	Associate Justice	R. Abrams	2001 – August 12, 2016 (Resigned)
Margot Botsford (1947–)	Associate Justice	M. Sosman	September 4, 2007 – March 15, 2017 (Mandatory retirement)	Deval Patrick
Ralph Gants (1954–2020)	Associate Justice	J. Greaney	January 29, 2009 – July 28, 2014 (Continued as Chief Justice)
Roderick L. Ireland (1944–)	Chief Justice	M. Marshall	December 20, 2010 – July 25, 2014 (Mandatory retirement)
Barbara Lenk (1950–)	Associate Justice	J. Cowin	June 8, 2011 – December 1, 2020 (Mandatory retirement)
Fernande R.V. Duffly (1949–)	Associate Justice	R. Ireland	February 1, 2011 – July 12, 2016 (Resigned)
Ralph Gants (1954–2020)	Chief Justice	R. Ireland	July 28, 2014 – September 14, 2020^[2]^[3] (Died)
Geraldine Hines (1947–)	Associate Justice	R. Gants	July 31, 2014 – August 18, 2017 (Mandatory retirement)
Frank Gaziano (1963–)	Associate Justice	F. Spina	August 18, 2016 – Incumbent	Charlie Baker
Kimberly S. Budd (1966–)	Associate Justice	F. Duffly	August 24, 2016 – December 1, 2020 (Continued as Chief Justice)
David A. Lowy (1959/60–)	Associate Justice	R. Cordy	August 24, 2016 – Incumbent
Elspeth B. Cypher (1959–)	Associate Justice	M. Botsford	March 31, 2017 – Incumbent
Scott Kafker (1959–)	Associate Justice	G. Hines	August 21, 2017 – Incumbent
Kimberly S. Budd (1966–)	Chief Justice	R. Gants	December 1, 2020 – Incumbent
Dalila Argaez Wendlandt (1968/69–)	Associate Justice	B. Lenk	December 4, 2020 – Incumbent
Serge Georges Jr. (1969/70–)	Associate Justice	K. Budd	December 16, 2020 – Incumbent

Notes[]

^ "Justice Margot Botsford retires from SJC – The Boston Globe". Retrieved 7 July 2017.
^ Becker, Deborah. "Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Ralph Gants Dies At 65". www.wbur.org. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
^ Marquard, Bryan. "SJC Chief Justice Ralph D. Gants has died - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2020-09-14.

Sources[]

Whitmore, William Henry (1870). The Massachusetts Civil List for the Colonial and Provincial Periods, 1630-1774. J. Munsell.

[note1695-2] All judges appointed before 1695 were reappointed in that year (except John Richards, who had died) because the legislation creating the court was vetoed in that year by the Privy Council. Several further attempts to legislate the court's existence were vetoed, and it was not until 1699 that the provincial assembly enacted laws creating courts that satisfied the Privy Council.

[1] "Justice Margot Botsford retires from SJC – The Boston Globe". Retrieved 7 July 2017.

[:0-3] Becker, Deborah. "Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Ralph Gants Dies At 65". www.wbur.org. Retrieved 2020-09-14.

[:1-4] Marquard, Bryan. "SJC Chief Justice Ralph D. Gants has died - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2020-09-14.

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v t Justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Chief justices (1692–present)	Stoughton Winthrop Addington Winthrop Samuel Sewall Lynde Sr. Dudley Stephen Sewall T. Hutchinson Lynde Jr. Oliver Adams Cushing Sargent Dana Parsons Sewall Parker Shaw Chapman Gray Morton W. Field Holmes Knowlton Rugg F. Field Qua Tauro Hennessey Liacos H. Wilkins Marshall Ireland Gants Budd
Provincial period Associate justices (1692–1775)	Danforth Richards Samuel Sewall Winthrop Cooke Saffin Hathorne Leverett Curwin Lynde Sr. Thomas Davenport Quincy Dudley Remington Graves Stephen Sewall Hubbard Lynde Jr. Russell Oliver Trowbridge F. Hutchinson W. Cushing Brown
Revolutionary period Associate justices (1775–80)	Sargent Reed Paine Warren Foster Sullivan D. Sewall
Commonwealth period Associate justices (1780–present)	Sumner Dana N. Cushing Paine Dawes Bradbury Sewall Strong Thatcher Sedgwick Parker Jackson D. Dewey Wilde C. Dewey Lincoln M. Morton Sr. Fletcher Metcalf C. Cushing Merrick Thomas Hoar Chapman Gray Colt Foster Ames M. Morton Jr. Devens Endicott Lord Soule Devens W. Field C. Allen Colburn Holmes Gardner Knowlton J. Morton Barker Lathrop Loring Braley Rugg Crosby Pierce Jenney F. Field Donahue Qua Cox Dolan Williams Whittemore Kirk Jacob Spiegel Reardon Braucher Hennessey Kaplan H. Wilkins Liacos Abrams Lynch Nolan O'Connor Greaney Fried Marshall Ireland Cowin Spina Sosman Cordy Botsford Gants Duffly Lenk Hines Gaziano Lowy Budd Cypher Kafker Wendlandt Georges Jr.
Italics indicate individuals who were offered seats on the court, but refused