Following is a list of persons who have served as justices of the Kentucky Supreme Court in its various forms since 1792.[1]

1792–1895

Justice Began active
service		 End of active
service		 Chief Justice
start		 Chief Justice
end
Harry Innes 1792 1792
Benjamin Sebastian 1792 1806
Caleb Wallace 1792 1813
George Muter 1792 1806 1792 1806
Thomas Todd 1801 1807 1806 1807
Felix Grundy 1806 1808 1807 1808
Ninian Edwards 1806 1809 1808 1809
Robert Trimble 1807 1809
William I. Logan 1808 1810
1818
George M. Bibb 1808
1827		 1809
1828
John Boyle 1809 1827 1810 1827
James Clark 1810 1812
William Owsley 1812 1828
John Rowan 1819
Benjamin Mills 1820 1828
William T. Barry 1825
James Haggin 1825
John Trimble 1825
Benjamin W. Patton 1825
Rezin Davidge 1825
John Telemachus Johnson 1826 1826
George Robertson 1828
1864		 1842
1871		 1829
1870		 1842
1871
Joseph R. Underwood 1828 1834
R. A. Buckner 1829 1832
Samuel Smith Nicholas 1831 1837
Iphraim M. Ewing 1835 1846 1843 1846
John Chambers 1835[2] - -
T. A. Marshall 1835 1856 1847
1854
1866		 1851
1856
-
Daniel Breck 1843 1849
James Simpson 1847 1860 1851
1858		 1852
1860
Asher W. Graham 1849 1851
B. Mills Crenshaw 1851 1857 1856 1857
Elijah Hise 1851 1854 1852 1854
Henry J. Stites 1854 1862 1860 1862
Alvin Duvall 1856 1864 1862 1864
Zachariah Wheat 1857 1858 1857 1858
Henry C. Wood 1858 1861
Belvard J. Peters 1860 1876 1866
1874		 1868
1876
Joshua Bullitt 1861 1865 1864 1865
Rufus K. Williams 1862 1870 1868 1870
William Sampson 1865 1866 1865 1866
M. R. Hardin 1866 1874 1872 1874
William Lindsay 1870 1878 1876 1878
William S. Pryor 1871 1897 1871
1878
1886
1895		 1872
1880
1888
1897
Martin H. Cofer 1874 1881 1880 1881
John Milton Elliott 1876 1879
Thomas Hines 1878 1886 1884 1886
T. F. Hargis 1879 1884 1882 1884
Joseph Horace Lewis 1881 1899 1881
1888
1897		 1882
1890
1899
William H. Holt 1884 1893 1890 1893
Caswell Bennett 1886 1894 1893 1894
J. H. Hazelrigg 1893 1901 1899 1901
Isaac M. Quigley 1894 1895 1894 1895

1895 reorganization

Justice Began active
service		 End of active
service		 Chief Justice
start		 Chief Justice
end
John R. Grace 1895 1896
B. L. D. Guffy 1895 1903 1902 1903
Sterling B. Toney 1895[3]
T. H. Paynter 1895 1906 1901 1902
George B. Estin 1895
George Durelle 1895 1903
Jos. I. Landes 1896
James D. White 1896 1903
A. R. Burnam 1897 1905 1903 1905
John P. Hobson 1899 1915 1905
1911		 1907
1915
Edward C. O'Rear 1901 1911 1907 1909
W. E. Settle 1903 1927 1909
1919		 1917
1925
T. J. Nunn 1903 1914 1909 1910
Henry Stites Barker 1903 1911 1910 1911
James E. Cantrill 1905 1907
John M. Lassing 1906 1913
John D. Carroll 1907 1921 1919 1921
Shackelford Miller Sr. 1911 1919 1915 1917
Robert H. Winn 1911 1912
C. C. Turner 1912 1917
J. B. Hannah 1913 1915
C. S. Nunn 1914 1915
Rollin Hurt 1915 1923 1921 1923
Ernest S. Clarke 1915 1926 1925 1926
Gus Thomas 1915 1951 1926
1929		 1927
1931
Flem D. Sampson 1917 1927 1923 1925
Huston Quin 1919 1921
William Rogers Clay 1921 1938 1927
1935		 1929
1937
Charles Harwood Moorman 1921 1923
D. A. McCandless 1923 1929 1929 1929
H. W. Robinson 1923 1924
Joseph T. O'Neal 1924 1924
R. P. Dietzman 1924 1935 1931 1933
C. W. Goodpaster 1926 1926
William H. Rees 1926 1951 1933
1941
1945		 1935
1942
1947
M. M. Logan 1927 1931 1931 1931
Simeon Willis 1928 1933
William S. Grigsby 1929 1931
Basil Richardson 1931 1937 1937 1937
A. J. Bratcher 1931 1931
Wesley Vick Perry 1931 1943 1942 1943
Alex L. Ratliff 1933 1944 1937
1939		 1938
1941
James W. Stites 1935 1939 1938 1939
Virgil H. Baird 1937 1938
James W. Cammack 1938 1953 1944
1951		 1945
1953
Will H. Fulton 1938 1944 1943 1944
Henry J. Tilford 1939 1945 1945
Porter Sims 1943 1959 1947
1953		 1951
1954
E. Poe Harris 1944 1945
B. J. Bethurum 1944[3] 1944
Clyde B. Latimer 1944 1952
Thomas S. Dawson 1945 1947
Eugene Siler 1945 1949
Thomas J. Knight 1947 1951
Roy Helm 1949 1951
James B. Milliken 1951 1975 1956
1963
1971		 1957
1964
1973
John R. Moremen 1951 1966 1957
1965		 1964
1966
Brady M. Stewart 1951 1967 1954
1962		 1956
1963
Bert Combs 1951 1955
Parker W. Duncan 1952 1954
Morris C. Montgomery 1954 1969 1959
1968		 1960
1969
Astor Hogg 1955 1957
Robert B. Bird 1957 1965 1960 1962
Amos H. Eblen 1958 1960
Thomas E. Sandidge 1959 1959
Squire N. Williams, Jr. 1959 1969 1967 1968
John S. Palmore 1959 1982* 1966
1973		 1967
1974
Edward P. Hill 1965 1973 1969 1971
Samuel Steinfeld 1967 1973 1972 1973
Earl T. Osborne 1967 1975 1974 1975
C. Homer Niekirk 1969 1973
Scott Elgin Reed 1969 1977* 1975 1977
James B. Stephenson 1973 1988*
Pleas Jones 1973 1979*
Boyce G. Clayton 1975 1983*
Marvin J. Sternberg 1975 1982*
Robert O. Lukowsky 1975 1981*

1975 reorganization

Justice District Began active
service		 End of active
service
Boyce G. Clayton 1st 1976 1983
John S. Palmore 2nd 1976 1983
Pleas Jones 3rd 1976 1979
Marvin J. Sternberg 4th 1976 1983
Scott Elgin Reed 5th 1976 1979
Robert O. Lukowsky 6th 1976 1981
James B. Stephenson 7th 1976 1989
John Calvin Aker 3rd 1979 1986
Robert F. Stephens 5th 1982 1999
John Jay O'Hara 6th 1982 1983
Roy N. Vance 1st 1983 1991
William Gant 2nd 1983 1991
Charles M. Leibson 4th 1983 1995
Donald C. Wintersheimer 6th 1983 2007
John D. White 3rd 1986 1986
Joseph Lambert 3rd 1987 2008
Dan Jack Combs 7th 1989 1993
Thomas B. Spain 1st 1991 1995
Charles H. Reynolds 2nd 1991 1996
Sara Walter Combs 7th 1993 1993
Janet Stumbo 7th 1993 2005
William Fuqua 1st 1995 1995
William Graves 1st 1995 2006
Nicholas King 4th 1995 1996
Walter Arnold Baker 2nd 1996 1996
William S. Cooper 2nd 1996 2006
Martin E. Johnstone 4th 1996 2006
James E. Keller 5th 1999 2006
John C. Roach 5th 2005 2006
Will T. Scott 7th 2005 2015
John D. Minton Jr. 2nd 2006 2023
William E. McAnulty Jr. 4th 2006 2007
Bill Cunningham 1st 2007 2019
Lisabeth Tabor Hughes 4th 2007 2023
Mary C. Noble 5th 2007 2016
Wilfrid Schroder 6th 2007 2013
Daniel J. Venters 3rd 2008 2019
Michelle M. Keller 6th 2013 Incumbent
David Allen Barber 7th 2015 2015
Samuel T. Wright III 7th 2015 2021
Laurance B. VanMeter 5th 2017 Incumbent
Christopher Shea Nickell 1st 2019 Incumbent
David Buckingham 1st 2019 2019
Debra H. Lambert 3rd 2019 Incumbent
Robert B. Conley 7th 2021 Incumbent
Angela McCormick Bisig 4th 2023 Incumbent
Kelly Thompson 2nd 2023 Incumbent

References

  1. ^ "Justices of Kentucky's Highest Court: The Court of Appeals (1792-1975) & Supreme Court (1976-present)". University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
  2. ^ Declined office.
  3. ^ a b Appointed, but declined to qualify.
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