List of justices of the Connecticut Supreme Court

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This is a list of justices of the Connecticut Supreme Court .

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Connecticut Supreme Court justices

Supreme Court of Errors (1784–1807)

A total of 47 justices served on the Supreme Court of Errors. [1]

JudgeBegan active
service
Ended active
service
Andrew Adams 17841790
Joseph Platt Cooke 17841803
Oliver Ellsworth 17841785
Jabez Hamlin 17841785
Benjamin Huntington 17841790
Samuel Huntington 17841787
Richard Law 17841789
Stephen Mix Mitchell 17831793
William Pitkin IV 17841785
Roger Sherman 17841785
Joseph Spencer 17841789
William Williams 17841803
Oliver Wolcott 17841797
William Hillhouse 17851807
William Samuel Johnson 17861789
Erastus Wolcott 17861790
John Treadwell 17861808
Jonathan Sturges 17861789
James Wadsworth 17871788
John Chester 17881792
James Hillhouse 17891793
Jedediah Strong 17891791
Jesse Root 17891790
James Davenport 17901797
Roger Newberry 17901807
Heman Swift 17901802
John Chandler 17901795
Benjamin Huntington 17911793
Amasa Learned 17911792
Jonathan Ingersoll 17921798
Tapping Reeve 17921792
Asher Miller 17931794
Thomas Grosvenor 17931802
Thomas Seymour 17931803
Samuel Huntington 17941796
Aaron Austin 17941807
Jeremiah Wadsworth 17951801
Jonathan Trumbull Jr. 17961807
David Daggett 17971805
Jonathan Brace 17981799
Zephaniah Swift 17991800
Nathaniel Smith 17991804
John Allen 18001806
Zephaniah Swift 18011801
Oliver Ellsworth 18021807
Jonathan Brace 18021807
Chauncey Goodrich 18021807
John Chester 18031807
William Edmond 18031807
Elizur Goodrich 18031807
Matthew Griswold Jr. 18051807
Stephen Hosmer 18051807
Asher Miller 18061807
Henry Champion 18061807

Connecticut Supreme Court (after 1807)

JudgeBegan active
service
Ended active
service
Tapping Reeve 18081815
Zephaniah Swift 18081819
John Trumbull 18081819
William Edmond 18081819
Nathaniel Smith 18081819
Jeremiah Gates Brainard 18081829
Simeon Baldwin 18081817
Roger Griswold 18081809
John Cotton Smith 18091811
Jonathan Ingersoll 18111816
Calvin Goddard 18151818
Stephen Hosmer 18151833
James Gould 18161819
John Thompson Peters 18181834
Asa Chapman 18181825
William Bristol 18191826
James Lanman 18261829
David Daggett 18261834
Thomas Scott Williams 18291847
Clark Bissell 18291839
Samuel Church 18331854
Jabez W. Huntington 18341840
Henry Matson Waite 18341857
Roger Minott Sherman 18391842
William L. Storrs 18401861
Joel Hinman 18421870
William W. Ellsworth 18471861
David C. Sanford 18541864
John Duane Park 18641889
Thomas B. Butler 18611873
Charles J. McCurdy 18631867
Henry Dutton 18611866
Elisha Carpenter 18661894
James Phelps 18731875
Dwight Whitefield Pardee 18731890
Dwight Loomis 18751891
Miles T. Granger 18761887
LaFayette S. Foster 18701876
Origen S. Seymour 18701874
Sidney Burr Beardsley 18871889
Charles B. Andrews 18891901
David Torrance 18901906
Augustus H. Fenn 18931897
Edward W. Seymour 18891892
Frederick B. Hall 18971913
Samuel O. Prentice 19011920
John M. Thayer 19071917
Silas A. Robinson 19101910 (seven months)
Simeon E. Baldwin 18931910
William Hamersley 18941908
Milton A. Shumway 19171918
Alberto T. Roraback 19081919
George W. Wheeler 19101930
John K. Beach 19131925
Edward B. Gager 19181922
William S. Case 19191921
Howard J. Curtis 19201927
Lucien F. Burpee 19211924
John E. Keeler 19221926
John P. Kellogg 19241925
William M. Maltbie 19251950
Frank D. Haines 19251936
George E. Hinman 19261940
John W. Banks 19271937
Christopher L. Avery 19301942
Allyn L. Brown 19361953
Newell Jennings 19371953
Arthur F. Ells 19401949
Edwin C. Dickenson 19421950
Raymond E. Baldwin 19491963
Ernest A. Inglis 19501957
Patrick B. O'Sullivan 19501957
John A. Cornell 19531953 (four months)
Edward J. Quinlan 19531954
Kenneth Wynne 19531958
Edward J. Daly 19541959
John Hamilton King 19571970
James E. Murphy 19571966
Samuel Mellitz 19581961
William J. Shea 19591965
Abraham S. Bordon 19611961 (five months)
Howard W. Alcorn 19611971
John M. Comley 19631965
James C. Shannon 19651966
Charles S. House 19651978
John P. Cotter 19651981
John R. Thim 19661972
Elmer W. Ryan 19661972
Louis Shapiro 19701975
Alva Loiselle 19711980
Herbert S. MacDonald 19721977
Joseph Bogdanski 19721981
Joseph S. Longo 19751979
William P. Barber 19751977
John A. Speziale 19771984
Ellen Ash Peters 19782000
Arthur H. Healey 19791990
Leo Parskey 19801985
Anthony J. Armentano 19811983
David M. Shea 19811992
Anthony E. Grillo 19831985
Joseph F. Dannehy 19841987
Angelo G. Santaniello 19851987
Robert J. Callahan 19852000
Robert D. Glass 19871992
Alfred V. Covello 19871992
T. Clark Hull 19871991
David M. Borden 19902007
Robert I. Berdon 19911999
Flemming L. Norcott Jr. 19922013
Joette Katz 19922011
Richard N. Palmer 19932020
Francis M. McDonald 19962001
William J. Sullivan 19992009
Christine S. Vertefeuille 20002010
Peter T. Zarella 20012016
Chase T. Rogers 20072018
Barry R. Schaller 20072008
C. Ian McLachlan 20092012
Dennis G. Eveleigh 20102017
Lubbie Harper Jr. 20112012
Carmen E. Espinosa 20132017
Richard A. Robinson 2013Incumbent
Andrew J. McDonald 2013Incumbent
Gregory D'Auria 2017Incumbent
Raheem L. Mullins 2017Incumbent
Maria Araújo Kahn 20172023
Steven D. Ecker 2018Incumbent
Christine Keller 20202022
Joan K. Alexander 2022Incumbent
Nora Dannehy 2023Incumbent

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References

  1. Day, Thomas (1809). Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Errors, of the State of Connecticut, in the years 1805, 1806, and 1807. Vol. 2.