List of justices of the Rhode Island Supreme Court

This is a list of Associate Justices of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from 1747 to the present. The Justices are listed under the term of the Chief Justice sitting at the time of their appointments (for a complete list of the Chief Justices, see List of Chief Justices of the Rhode Island Supreme Court).

May 1747 – May 1749 Gideon Cornell[]

May 1749 – May 1751 Joshua Babcock[]

(May 1749 – May 1761)
(May 1749 – May 1750)
(May 1749 – May 1750)
(May 1749 – May 1751)
(May 1750 – May 1751)
Benjamin Hazard (May 1750 – May 1751)

May 1751 – May 1755 Stephen Hopkins[]

(May 1751 – May 1759; May 1761 – August 1763)
(May 1751 – May 1761)

May 1756 – May 1761 John Gardner[]

(May 1759 – May 1761)

May 1761 – May 1762 Samuel Ward[]

(May 1761 – May 1762)
(May 1761 – May 1762)

May 1762 – August 1763 John Gardner[]

(May 1762 – August 1763)
(May 1762 – August 1763; June 1767 – June 1769)

1762 – 1764 , , Joshua Babcock, []

Thomas Cranston (August 1763 – May 1764)
John Cole (August 1763 – May 1765; Chief Justice February 1764 – May 1765)
(August 1763 – May 1765 and June 1769 – June 1770)
(August 1763 – May 1765)

1764 – 1765 John Cole[]

(May 1764 – May 1768)
Stephen Potter (May 1764 – May 1765; May 1767 – May 1768; and May 1778 – 1780)

1765 – 1767 Joseph Russell, []

(May 1749 – May 1750; May 1761 – August 1763; and May 1765 – June 1767)
(May 1764 – May 1768)
Gideon Comstock (May 1766 – June 1767; June 1769 – June 1770; and May 1779 – May 1781)
Benoni Hall (May 1765 – May 1768, and June 1769 – May 1773)
(May 1765 – May 1766)
Metcalf Bowler (May 1768 – June 1769; June 1770 – February 1777)
(May 1768 – June 1770)

1770 – 1776 Stephen Hopkins, John Cooke[]

(June 1767 – May 1768 and June 1769 – May 1774)
William Greene (February 1777 – May 1778)
(May 1751 – August 1763; May 1765 – May 1767; May 1768 – June 1769; and May 1774 – August 1776)