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Following is a list of justices of the Montana Supreme Court .
Current members [ ]
Former members [ ]
Chief justices [ ]
Montana Territorial Supreme Court [ ]
Montana Supreme Court [ ]
Associate justices [ ]
Montana Territorial Supreme Court [ ]
Associate Justice
Term served
Notes
Ammi Giddings
(1864–1865)
Appointed by President Lincoln, but never served; resigned immediately due to ill health, though commission remained in force until 1865
Lorenzo P. Williston
(1864–1868)
Appointed by President Lincoln
Lyman E. Munson
(1865–1869)
Appointed by President Lincoln
Hiram Knowles
(1868–1879)
Appointed by President Johnson
George G. Symes
(1869–1871)
Appointed by President Grant
John Luttrell Murphy
(1871-1872)
Appointed by Ulysses S. Grant. Recalled/resigned after much controversy, replaced by Justice Servis.
Francis G. Servis
(1872–1875)
Appointed by President Grant
Henry N. Blake
(1875–1885)
Appointed by President Grant; subsequently appointed as Chief Justice of Territorial Supreme Court, 1889; elected first Chief Justice of Supreme Court, 1889–1893
(1879–1888)
Appointed to first term by President Hayes , to subsequent term by President Arthur
Everton Conger
(1880–1886)
Appointed by President Hayes
John Coburn
(1884–1886)
Appointed by President Hayes
Thomas C. Bach
(1886–1889)
Appointed by President Cleveland
(1886–1888)
Appointed by President Cleveland
(1888–1889)
Appointed by President Cleveland
Moses J. Liddell
(1888–1889)
Appointed by President Cleveland
Montana Supreme Court [ ]
Associate Justice
Term served
Notes
(1889–1897)
Edgar N. Harwood
(1889–1895)
William Henry Hunt
(1895–1900)
Resigned
Horace R. Buck
(1897)
Died in office
William Trigg Pigott
(1897–1903)
Appointed
Robert L. Word
(1900–1901)
Appointed
(1901–1907)
(1903–1926)
Died in office
Henry C. Smith
(1907–1913)
(1913–1918)
William Trigg Pigott
(1918)
Appointed; previously served as Associate Justice, 1897–1903
Charles H. Cooper
(1919–1924)
Resigned
(1919–1921)
George Y. Patten
(1919)
Appointed to newly created seat; resigned
John A. Matthews
(1919–1920)
Appointed; subsequently served as Associate Justice, 1925–1937
Roy E. Ayers
(1922)
Appointed to newly created seat, January 1922; resigned November 22, 1922
Albert J. Galen
(1921–1933)
Frank B. Reynolds
(1921–1922)
Died in office
George W. Farr
(1922–1923)
Appointed
Albert P. Stark
(1923–1929)
Wellington D. Rankin
(1924–1925)
Appointed
John A. Matthews
(1925–1937)
Previously served as Associate Justice, 1919
(1926–1927)
Appointed
Henry L. Myers
(1927–1929)
Appointed
Albert H. Angstman
(1929–1934)
Subsequently served as Associate Justice 1937–1942, 1945–1961 for a total of 28 years
Sam C. Ford
(1929–1933)
Subsequently Governor of Montana, 1941 to 1949
Ralph J. Anderson
(1933–1939)
Sam V. Stewart
(1933–1939)
Previously Governor of Montana, 1913–1921; State Representative, 1931–1933; died in office, 1939
Claude F. Morris
(1935–1947)
Albert H. Angstman
(1937–1942)
Previously served as Associate Justice, 1929–1934; subsequently served 1945–1961
(1939–1941)
Appointed
Leif Erickson
(1939–1945)
Albert Anderson
(1941–1945)
Hugh R. Adair
(1943–1946)
Subsequently served as Chief Justice, 1947–1956, and again as Associate Justice 1957 – 1968
Albert H. Angstman
(1945–1961)
Previously served as Associate Justice, 1929–1934, and 1945–1961
Edwin K. Cheadle
(1945–1947)
Resigned
(1947–1949)
Appointed
Fred L. Gibson
(1947–1948)
Appointed
Lee Metcalf
(1947–1953)
Subsequently U.S. Representative, 1953–1961; U.S. Senator, 1961–1978
(1949–1961)
Harrison J. Freebourn
(1949–1954)
Forrest H. Anderson
(1953–1956)
Subsequently served as Governor of Montana, 1969–1973
(1954–1957)
Appointed
Hugh R. Adair
(1957–1968)
Previously served as Associate Justice, 1943–1946 and as Chief Justice, 1947–1956
(1957–1977)
Appointed
(1961–1967)
Appointed; resigned
John C. Harrison
(1961–1994)
Longest serving justice in history of the court
Frank I. Haswell
(1967–1978)
Appointed; subsequently served as Chief Justice, 1978–1985
John W. Bonner
(1969–1970)
Previously Governor of Montana, 1949 to 1953; Died in office, 1970
(1970–1983)
Appointed, reelected
Daniel J. Shea
(1977–1985)
(1978–1991)
Appointed
Frank B. Morrison
(1981–1987)
Resigned
Fred J. Weber
(1981–1995)
(1983–1989)
William E. Hunt
(1985–2000)
R. C. McDonough
(1987–1993)
Diane Barz
(1989–1990)
First woman to serve on the court; resigned
Terry N. Trieweiler
(1990–2003)
Karla M. Gray
(1991–2000)
Subsequently served as Chief Justice, 2000 to 2008
Charles E. Erdmann
(1995–1997)
Jim Regnier
(1997–2004)
John Warner
(2003–2009)
W. William Leaphart
(1995–2010)
Elected 1994; re-elected 2002
James C. Nelson
(1993–2012)
Appointed by Governor Marc Racicot ; elected 1994; re-elected 1996, 2004
Brian Matthew Morris
(2005–2013)
Elected 2004; re-elected 2012
Patricia O'Brien Cotter
(2001–2016)
Elected 2000; re-elected 2008
Mike Wheat
(2010–2017)
Elected in 2010; re-elected 2014
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