List of Justices of the Montana Supreme Court
Montana Supreme Court

List of Justices of the Montana Supreme Court

Section Title: Montana Supreme Court
Table Section Text: None

Associate Justice	Term served	Notes

William H. DeWitt	(1889–1897)

Edgar N. Harwood	(1889–1895)

William Henry Hunt	(1894–1900)	Resigned

Horace R. Buck	(1897)	Died in office

William Trigg Pigott	(1897–1903)	Appointed

Robert L. Word	(1900–1901)	Appointed

George R. Milburn	(1901–1907)

William L. Holloway	(1903–1926)	Died in office

Henry C. Smith	(1907–1913)

Sidney Sanner	(1913–1918)

William Trigg Pigott	(1918)	Appointed; previously served as Associate Justice, 1897–1903

Charles H. Cooper	(1919–1924)	Resigned

John Hurley	(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

Warren Toole	(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

Ralph L. Arnold	(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

I. W. Choate	(1947–1949)	Appointed

Fred L. Gibson	(1947–1949)	Appointed

Lee Metcalf	(1947–1953)	Subsequently U.S. Representative, 1953-1961; U.S. Senator, 1961-1978

R. V. Bottomly	(1949–1961)

Harrison J. Freebourn	(1949–1954)

Forrest H. Anderson	(1953–1956)	Subsequently served as Governor of Montana, 1969-1973

Horace S. Davis	(1954–1957)	Appointed

Hugh R. Adair	(1957–1968)	Previously served as Associate Justice, 1943–1946 and as Chief Justice, 1947–1956

Wesley Castles	(1957–1977)	Appointed

Stanley M. Doyle	(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

Gene B. Daly	(1970–1983)	Appointed, reelected

Daniel J. Shea	(1977–1985)

John C. Sheehy	(1978–1991)	Appointed

Frank B. Morrison	(1981–1987)	Resigned

Fred J. Weber	(1981–1995)

J. C. Gulbrandson	(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

Patricia O'Brien Cotter	(2001-2016)	Elected 2000; re-elected 2008

Mike Wheat	(2010-2017)	Elected in 2010

Sentence(s)

Sam C. Ford is a Justice of the Montana Supreme Court.

final_sentence: Sam C. Ford is a Justice of the Montana Supreme Court.