Chief Justice of Samoa
List of Chief Justices

Chief Justice of Samoa

Section Title: List of Chief Justices
Table Section Text: None

Portrait	Name	Nationality	From	To	Appointed by	Sources

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Justice for Samoa

-	Conrad Cedercrantz [sv]	Sweden	1890	?	Oscar II of Sweden

-	Henry Clay Ide	United States	1893	1897

-	William Lea Chambers	United States	1897	1899

Chief Judge of Samoa German: Oberrichter von Samoa

Erich Schultz-Ewerth [de] (Concurrently Governor of German Samoa from 1910 to 1914)	Germany	1904	1914	Wilhelm Solf

Chief Judge of the High Court of Western Samoa (incomplete list)

JE Wilson	New Zealand	?	1921

CR Orr-Walker	New Zealand	1921	1923

-	John Luxford	New Zealand	1929	1936	Joseph Ward

Robert Mackenzie Watson	New Zealand	April 1936	September 1936	Michael Joseph Savage

Joseph S. Morling	New Zealand	April 1937	?	Michael Joseph Savage

William Carrol Harley	New Zealand	September 1938	May 1942	Michael Joseph Savage

John R. Herd	New Zealand	Late 1942 or early 1943	November 1947	?

Charles Croft Marsack	New Zealand	January 1948	December 1961	Peter Fraser

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Samoa

Paul Loxton Molineaux	New Zealand	1962	1966

Barrie Charles Spring	New Zealand	1966	1972

Eric Francis Rothwell	New Zealand	?	?	?

Sir Gaven Donne KBE.jpeg	Gaven John Donne	New Zealand	1972	1974

Michael Bernard (Ben) Scully	New Zealand	1974	1976

Bryan Osborne Nicholson	New Zealand	?	1980

Robert St John	Australia	1980	1982

David Hull	?	?	?	?

John Douglas Dillon	?	?	?	?

Russell Callander	New Zealand	1982	1983	Tanumafili II, on the advice of Tupuola Efi

Vaovasamanaia Phillips	Samoa	1983	?	Tanumafili II, on the advice of Tofilau Eti Alesana

Trevor Maxwell	New Zealand	?	1989

Anthony John Ryan	?	?	?	?

Patu Tiava'asu'e Falefatu Sapolu	Samoa	1992	Present

Sentence(s)

The position of Chief Justice was subsequently held by Americans Henry Clay Ide from 1893 to 1897, and William Lea Chambers from 1897 to 1899.

final_sentence: The position of Chief Justice was subsequently held by Americans Henry Clay Ide from 1893 to 1897, and William Lea Chambers from 1897 to 1899.