List of Justices of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Previous Other Justices

List of Justices of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Section Title: Previous Other Justices
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Justice	Assumed office	Elected/Appointed by	Left office

Anthony Morris	August 10, 1694

Edward Shippen	1699

Caleb Pusey	June 20, 1701

William Trent	April 10, 1704

Richard Hill	March 16, 1711

Thomas Graeme	April 9, 1731

Thomas Griffitts	August 13, 1739

Thomas Willing	September 14, 1767

John Morton	April 20, 1774

William Augustus Atlee	April 2, 1777

John Evans	August 19, 1777

George Bryan	April 5, 1780

William Bradford Jr.	August 20, 1791

Thomas Smith	January 3, 1794

Hugh Henry Brackenridge	December 18, 1800

John Tod	May 25, 1827

Frederick Smith	January 31, 1828	1830 (died)

John Ross	April 9, 1830

Thomas Burnside	January 2, 1845

Richard Coulter	September 17, 1846

George Chambers	April 10, 1851

John C. Knox	May 23, 1853

James Armstrong	April 6, 1857

William Strong	December 7, 1857

S. Leslie Mestrezat	January 1, 1900

William B. Linn	February 23, 1932

Marion D. Patterson	January 2, 1940

Allen M. Stearne	December 24, 1942

Michael A. Musmanno	January 7, 1952

Herbert B. Cohen	January 7, 1957

Curtis Bok	January 1, 1959

Anne X. Alpern	September 6, 1961	Appointed by David L. Lawrence

Thomas W. Pomeroy Jr.	December 30, 1968

Louis L. Manderino	January 3, 1972

Rolf Larsen	January 5, 1978	1994 (impeached and removed from office)

William D. Hutchinson	January 4, 1982

James T. McDermott	January 4, 1982

Stephen Zappala Sr.	January 3, 1983

Nicholas P. Papadakos	January 2, 1984

Juanita Kidd Stout	February 25, 1988	1989

Russell M. Nigro	January 1, 1996	2005 (defeated for retention)

Cynthia A. Baldwin	February 15, 2006	Appointed by Ed Rendell

James J. Fitzgerald III	March 28, 2007	Appointed by Ed Rendell

Seamus McCaffery	January 7, 2008	October 27, 2014

Jane Cutler Greenspan	July 2, 2008	Appointed by Ed Rendell

Joan Orie Melvin	January 8, 2010	Elected

Correale F. Stevens	July 30, 2013	Appointed by Tom Corbett

Sentence(s)

Nicholas P. Papadakos served as the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice.

final_sentence: Nicholas P. Papadakos served as the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice.