# List of justices of the Vermont Supreme Court

Following is a list of justices of the Vermont Supreme Court:

## Current membership

| Title | Name | Joined the Court | Appointed by |
| Chief Justice | Paul L. Reiber | 2003 | Jim Douglas |
| Associate Justice | Harold Eaton Jr. | 2014 | Peter Shumlin |
| Associate Justice | Karen Carroll | 2017 | Phil Scott |
| Associate Justice | William D. Cohen | 2019 | Phil Scott |
| Associate Justice | Nancy Waples | 2022 | Phil Scott |

## All justices

| Judge | Began active service | Ended active service | Notes |
| Moses Robinson | 1778 1782 1785 | 1780 1783 1788 | Chief Judge. |
| John Shepardson | 1778 | 1779 | |
| John Fassett Jr. | 1778 | 1785 | |
| Thomas Chandler Jr. | 1778 | 1778 | |
| John Throop | 1778 | 1780 | |
| Paul Spooner | 1779 | 1788 | Chief Judge in 1784. |
| Increase Moseley | 1780 | 1780 | |
| Elisha Payne | 1781 | 1782 | Chief Judge; removed from the court by the dissolution of the union with towns in New Hampshire in February 1782 and replaced by Moses Robinson. |
| Jonas Fay | 1781 | 1782 | |
| Simeon Olcott | 1782 | 1782 | |
| Peter Olcott | 1782 | 1784 | |
| Thomas Porter | 1783 | 1785 | |
| Nathaniel Niles | 1784 | 1787 | |
| Nathaniel Chipman | 1786 1789 1796 1813 | 1786 1790 1796 1814 | Removed in 1786 by reduction of the court to three judges. Chief Judge from 1789 to 1790, in 1796, and from 1813 to 1814. |
| Luke Knowlton | 1786 | 1786 | Removed by reduction of the court to three judges. |
| Stephen R. Bradley | 1788 | 1788 | |
| Noah Smith | 1789 1798 | 1790 1800 | |
| Samuel Knight | 1789 | 1793 | Chief Judge from 1791 to 1793. |
| Elijah Paine | 1791 | 1793 | |
| Isaac Tichenor | 1791 | 1795 | Chief Judge from 1794 to 1795. |
| Lot Hall | 1794 | 1800 | |
| Enoch Woodbridge | 1794 | 1800 | Chief Judge from 1798 to 1800. |
| Israel Smith | 1797 | 1797 | Chief Judge. |
| Jonathan Robinson | 1801 | 1806 | Chief Judge. |
| Royall Tyler | 1801 | 1812 | Chief Judge from 1807 to 1812. |
| Stephen Jacob | 1801 | 1802 | |
| Theophilus Harrington | 1803 | 1812 | |
| Jonas Galusha | 1807 | 1808 | |
| David Fay | 1809 | 1812 | |
| Daniel Farrand | 1813 | 1814 | |
| Jonathan Hatch Hubbard | 1813 | 1814 | |
| Asa Aldis | 1815 | 1815 | Chief Judge. |
| Richard Skinner | 1815 1823 | 1816 1828 | Chief Judge in 1816, and from 1823 to 1828. |
| James Fisk | 1815 | 1816 | |
| William A. Palmer | 1816 | 1816 | |
| Dudley Chase | 1817 | 1820 | Chief Judge. |
| Joel Doolittle | 1817 1824 | 1822 1824 | |
| William Brayton | 1817 | 1821 | |
| Cornelius P. Van Ness | 1821 | 1822 | Chief Judge. |
| Charles K. Williams | 1822 1829 | 1823 1845 | Chief Judge from 1834 to 1845 |
| Asa Aikens | 1823 | 1824 | |
| Samuel Prentiss | 1825 | 1829 | Chief Judge in 1829. |
| Titus Hutchinson | 1825 | 1833 | Chief Judge from 1830 to 1833. |
| Stephen Royce | 1825 1829 | 1826 1851 | Chief Judge from 1846 to 1851. |
| Bates Turner | 1827 | 1828 | |
| Ephraim Paddock | 1828 | 1830 | |
| Charles K. Williams | 1830 | 1845 | Chief Judge from 1834 to 1845. |
| John C. Thompson | 1830 | 1830 | |
| Nicholas Baylies | 1831 | 1833 | |
| Samuel S. Phelps | 1831 | 1837 | |
| Jacob Collamer | 1834 | 1841 | |
| John Mattocks | 1834 | 1835 | |
| Isaac F. Redfield | 1836 | 1859 | Chief Judge from 1852 to 1859. |
| Milo Lyman Bennett | 1838 1852 | 1849 1858 | |
| William Hebard | 1842 1844 | 1842 1844 | |
| Daniel Kellogg | 1843 1845 | 1843 1850 | |
| Hiland Hall | 1846 | 1849 | |
| Charles Davis | 1846 | 1847 | |
| Luke P. Poland | 1848 1857 | 1849 1864 | Chief Judge from 1860 to 1864. |
| Pierpoint Isham | 1851 | 1856 | |
| Asa O. Aldis | 1857 | 1864 | |
| John Pierpoint | 1857 | 1882 | Chief Judge from 1865 to 1882. |
| James Barrett | 1857 | 1880 | |
| Loyal C. Kellogg | 1859 | 1866 | |
| Asahel Peck | 1860 | 1874 | |
| Herman R. Beardsley | 1865 | 1865 | |
| William C. Wilson | 1865 | 1869 | |
| Benjamin H. Steele | 1865 | 1869 | |
| John Prout | 1867 | 1869 | |
| Hoyt Henry Wheeler | 1869 | 1878 | |
| Homer Elihu Royce | 1870 | 1890 | Chief Judge from 1882 to 1890 |
| Timothy P. Redfield | 1870 | 1884 | |
| Jonathan Ross | 1870 | 1899 | Chief Judge from 1890 to 1899 |
| H. Henry Powers | 1874 | 1890 | |
| Walter C. Dunton | 1877 | 1879 | |
| Wheelock G. Veazey | 1879 | 1889 | |
| Russell S. Taft | 1880 | 1902 | Chief Judge from 1899 to 1902 |
| John W. Rowell | 1882 | 1913 | Chief Judge/Chief Justice from 1902 to 1913 |
| William H. Walker | 1884 | 1887 | |
| James Manning Tyler | 1887 | 1908 | |
| Loveland Munson | 1890 | 1917 | Chief Justice from 1915 to 1917. |
| Henry R. Start | 1890 | 1905 | |
| Laforrest H. Thompson | 1890 | 1900 | |
| John H. Watson | 1899 | 1929 | Chief Justice from 1917 to 1929. |
| Wendell Phillips Stafford | 1900 | 1904 | |
| Seneca Haselton | 1902 1908 | 1906 1919 | |
| George M. Powers | 1904 1909 | 1906 1938 | Chief Justice from 1913 to 1915, and from 1929 to 1938. |
| Willard W. Miles | 1905 1917 | 1906 1923 | |
| William H. Taylor | 1913 | 1926 | |
| Leighton P. Slack | 1914 1919 | 1915 1938 | |
| Robert E. Healy | 1914 | 1915 | |
| Fred M. Butler | 1923 | 1926 | |
| Frank L. Fish | 1926 | 1927 | |
| Sherman R. Moulton | 1926 | 1949 | Chief Justice from 1939 to 1949. |
| Harrie B. Chase | 1927 | 1929 | |
| Julius A. Willcox | 1929 | 1931 | |
| Frank D. Thompson | 1929 | 1937 | |
| Warner A. Graham | 1931 | 1934 | |
| John C. Sherburne | 1934 | 1955 | Chief Justice from 1949 to 1955. |
| John S. Buttles | 1937 | 1949 | |
| Allen R. Sturtevant | 1938 | 1948 | |
| Olin M. Jeffords | 1938 | 1958 | Chief Justice from 1955 to 1958. |
| Walter H. Cleary | 1948 | 1958 | Chief Justice from 1958 to 1959. |
| Charles Bayley Adams | 1949 | 1959 | |
| Samuel H. Blackmer | 1949 | 1951 | |
| Stephen S. Cushing | 1952 | 1953 | |
| Paul A. Chase | 1953 | 1956 | |
| Benjamin N. Hulburd | 1955 | 1963 | Chief Justice from 1959 to 1963. |
| James Stuart Holden | 1956 | 1972 | Chief Justice from 1963 to 1972. |
| Percival L. Shangraw | 1958 | 1974 | Chief Justice from 1972 to 1974. |
| Albert W. Barney Jr. | 1959 | 1982 | Chief Justice from 1974 to 1982. |
| Milford K. Smith | 1959 | 1976 | |
| Harold C. Sylvester | 1963 | 1964 | |
| F. Ray Keyser Sr. | 1964 | 1975 | |
| Rudolph J. Daley | 1972 | 1980 | |
| Robert W. Larrow | 1974 | 1981 | |
| Franklin S. Billings Jr. | 1975 | 1984 | Chief Justice from 1983 to 1984. |
| William C. Hill | 1976 | 1987 | |
| Wynn Underwood | 1981 | 1984 | |
| Louis P. Peck | 1981 | 1990 | |
| Frederic W. Allen | 1984 | 1997 | Chief Justice from 1984 to 1997. |
| Ernest W. Gibson III | 1983 | 1997 | |
| Thomas L. Hayes | 1985 | 1987 | |
| John Dooley (judge) | 1987 | 2017 | |
| Frank G. Mahady | 1987 | 1988 | Appointed but never confirmed by the Senate; withdrew his confirmation request on April 3, 1988. |
| James L. Morse | 1988 | 2003 | |
| Denise R. Johnson | 1990 | 2011 | First woman to serve on the court. |
| Jeffrey Amestoy | 1997 | 2004 | Chief Justice from 1997 to 2004. |
| Marilyn Skoglund | 1997 | 2019 | |
| Paul Reiber | 2003 | Present | Chief Justice since 2004. |
| Brian L. Burgess | 2005 | 2013 | |
| Beth Robinson | 2011 | 2021 | Confirmed to be a Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. |
| Geoffrey Crawford | 2013 | 2014 | Confirmed to be a Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Vermont. |
| Harold Eaton Jr. | 2014 | Present | |
| Karen Carroll | 2017 | Present | |
| William D. Cohen | 2019 | Present | |
| Nancy Waples | 2022 | Present | |