# List of people who have served in all three branches of a U.S. state government

A number of individuals have achieved the rare distinction of serving in all three branches of the state government of one of the U.S. states:
* in the executive branch (in an elected position, such as governor or state attorney general), or in a high-level state appointed position (such as a member of the governor's cabinet, head of a state agency, or member of a state executive board or commission);
* in the state legislature; and
* as a state judge.
This list excludes service in local government (such as county or city government), as well as military and militia posts.

## List

| Individual | State | Legislative-branch service | Executive-branch service | Judicial-branch service |
| Chester Hardy Aldrich | Nebraska | Nebraska Senate (1907) | Governor of Nebraska (1911–1913) | Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court (1918–1924) |
| Forrest H. Anderson | Montana | Montana House of Representatives (1943–1945) | Governor of Montana (1968–1972) Montana Attorney General (1957–1968) | Justice of the Montana Supreme Court (1953–1957) |
| Charles B. Andrews | Connecticut | Connecticut Senate (1868–1870) Connecticut House of Representatives (1878) | Governor of Connecticut (1879–1881) | Judge of the Connecticut Superior Court (1881–1889) Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court (1889–1901) |
| Samuel Ashe | North Carolina | North Carolina Senate (1776) (speaker) | Governor of North Carolina (1795–1798) | Presiding justice of the North Carolina Superior Court (1777–1795) |
| Thomas W. Bartley | Ohio | Speaker of the Ohio Senate (1843–1844) | Governor of Ohio (1844) | Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio (1852–1859) |
| Richard Bassett | Delaware | Delaware Senate (1882) Delaware House of Representatives (1886) | Governor of Delaware (1799–1801) | Chief Justice of the Delaware Court of Common Pleas (1793–1799) |
| Elisha Baxter | Arkansas | Arkansas House of Representatives (1854–1855; 1859–1860) | Governor of Arkansas (1873–1874) | Judge of the Arkansas Circuit Court (1868–1873) |
| Clark Bissell | Connecticut | Connecticut House of Representatives (1829; 1841) Connecticut Senate (1842–1843) | Governor of Connecticut (1847–1849) | Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors (1829–1839) |
| Thomas E. Bramlette | Kentucky | Kentucky House of Representatives (1841) | Governor of Kentucky (1863–1867) | Judge of the Kentucky District Court (1856–1861) |
| Thaddeus M. Buczko | Massachusetts | Massachusetts House of Representatives (1959–1964) | Massachusetts Auditor (1964–1981) | Justice of the Essex County Probate and Family Court (1981–1996) |
| John Burke | North Dakota | North Dakota House of Representatives (1891–1893) North Dakota Senate (1893–1897) | Governor of North Dakota (1907–1913) | Judge of the North Dakota District Court (1889–1891; 1897–1899) Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court (1924–1937) Chief Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court (1929–1931; 1935–1937) |
| James Clark | Kentucky | Kentucky House of Representatives (1807–1808) | Governor of Kentucky (1836–1839) | Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals (1810–1812) Judge of the Kentucky Circuit Court (1817–1824) |
| Clement Comer Clay | Alabama | Alabama House of Representatives (speaker of the House) | Governor of Alabama (1835–1837) | Judge of the Alabama Circuit Court (simultaneously a member of the Alabama Supreme Court and chief justice) |
| James P. Coleman | Mississippi | Mississippi House of Representatives (1960–1964) | Mississippi Attorney General (1950–1956) Governor of Mississippi (1956–1960) | Judge of the Mississippi Circuit Court (1947–1950) Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi (1950) |
| Fred Cowan | Kentucky | Kentucky House of Representatives (1982–1987) | Attorney General of Kentucky (1988–1992) | Judge of the Kentucky Circuit Court (2006–2014) |
| Lorenzo Crounse | Nebraska | Nebraska Senate (1901) | Governor of Nebraska (1893–1895) | Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court (1867–1873) |
| Stephen A. Douglas | Illinois | Illinois House of Representatives (1836–1837) | Illinois Secretary of State (1840–1841) | Justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois (1841–1843) |
| Mack Easley | New Mexico | New Mexico House of Representatives (1951–1952; 1955–1962) Speaker of the New Mexico House of Representatives (1959–1960) New Mexico Senate (1967–1970) | Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico (1963–1967) | Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court (1976–1981) Chief Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court (1981–1982) |
| Alpheus Felch | Michigan | Michigan House of Representatives (1835–1837) | Governor of Michigan (1846–1847) Michigan Auditor General (1842) | Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court (1842–1845) |
| Daniel Gould Fowle | North Carolina | North Carolina House of Commons (1862; 1864–1865) | Governor of North Carolina (1889–1891) | Judge of the North Carolina Superior Court (1865–1867) |
| Junius Marion Futrell | Arkansas | Arkansas House of Representatives (1896–1904) Arkansas Senate (1913–1917) | Governor of Arkansas (1913; 1933–1937) | Judge of the Arkansas Circuit Court (1922–1933) |
| John Gayle | Alabama | Alabama House of Representatives (1822–1823) Speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives (1829–1830) | Governor of Alabama (1831–1835) | Judge of the Alabama Circuit Court (1823–1825) Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama (1828–1829) |
| Charles Harold Haden II | West Virginia | West Virginia House of Delegates (1963–1964) | West Virginia State Tax Commissioner (1969–1972) | Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia (1972–1975) Chief justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia (1974–1975) |
| Warren E. Hearnes | Missouri | Missouri House of Representatives (1951–1961) | Governor of Missouri (1965–1973) Secretary of State of Missouri (1961–1965) | Judge of the Missouri Circuit Court (1980) |
| Paul M. Herbert | Ohio | Ohio House of Representatives (1922–1926) Ohio Senate (1926–1930) | Lieutenant Governor of Ohio (1939–1945; 1947–1949; 1957–1959) | Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio (1963–1968) |
| Richard Joseph Hopkins | Kansas | Kansas House of Representatives (1909–1911) | Lieutenant Governor of Kansas (1911–1913) Kansas Attorney General (1919–1923) | Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court (1923–1929) |
| T. Clark Hull | Connecticut | Connecticut Senate (1963–1971) | Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (1971–1973) | Judge of the Connecticut Superior Court (1973–1983) Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court (1983–1987) Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court (1987–1991) |
| J. Frank Huskins | North Carolina | North Carolina House of Representatives (1947–1949) | Chairman of the North Carolina Industrial Commission (1949–1955) | Judge of the North Carolina Superior Court (1955–1965) Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court (1968–1982) |
| John Ireland | Texas | Texas House of Representatives (1873–1874) Texas Senate (1874–1876) | Governor of Texas (1883–1887) | Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas (1875–1879) |
| Fred Gustus Johnson | Nebraska | Nebraska House of Representatives (1907–1909; 1917–1919) Nebraska Senate (1919–1920) | Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska (1923–1925) | Judge of the Nebraska District Court (1945–1951) |
| Sandy Keith | Minnesota | Minnesota Senate (1959–1963) | Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota (1963–1967) | Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court (1989–1990) Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court (1990–1998) |
| Wayne L. Kidwell | Idaho | Idaho Senate (1969–1973) | Idaho Attorney General (1975–1979) | Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court (1999–2005) |
| Ted Kulongoski | Oregon | Oregon House of Representatives (1975–1978) Oregon State Senate (1978–1983) | Governor of Oregon (2003–2011) Oregon Attorney General (1993–1997) | Associate justice of the Supreme Court of Oregon (1997–2001) |
| Frank Licht | Rhode Island | Rhode Island Senate (1949–1956) | Governor of Rhode Island (1969–1973) | Associate Justice of the Rhode Island Superior Court (1963–1968) |
| Richard A. Licht | Rhode Island | Rhode Island Senate (1973–1984) | Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island (1985-1989) Rhode Island Director of Administration (2010-2014) | Associate Justice of the Rhode Island Superior Court (2014–present) |
| Levi Lincoln Jr. | Massachusetts | Massachusetts Senate (1812–1814, 1844–1845) Massachusetts House of Representatives (1814–1823) | Governor of Massachusetts (1825–1834) Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1823–1824) | Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1824–1825) |
| William Paine Lord | Oregon | Oregon State Senate (1879–1880) | Governor of Oregon (1895–1899) | Chief justice of the Supreme Court of Oregon (1878–1880; 1886–1888; 1892–1894) |
| Charles Lynch | Mississippi | Mississippi Senate (1827–1835) | Governor of Mississippi (1833; 1836–1838) | Judge of the Mississippi Probate Court (1821–1827) |
| Thomas J. Mabry | New Mexico | New Mexico Senate (1912–1917) | Governor of New Mexico (1947–1951) | Judge of the New Mexico District Court (1937–1939) Chief Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court (1939–1946) |
| Isaac Marston | Michigan | Michigan House of Representatives (1872–1873) | Michigan Attorney General (1874–1875) | Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court (1875–1883) Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court (1880–1881) |
| William T. Minor | Connecticut | Connecticut Senate (1854–1855) Connecticut House of Representatives (1867) | Governor of Connecticut (1855–1857) | Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court (1868–1873) |
| Alfred Moore | North Carolina | North Carolina General Assembly | North Carolina Attorney General (1782–1792) | Judge of the North Carolina Superior Court (1798–1799) |
| Andrew B. Moore | Alabama | Alabama House of Representatives (speaker of the house) | Governor of Alabama (1857–1861) | Judge of the Alabama Circuit Court (1851–1857) |
| Dan K. Moore | North Carolina | North Carolina House of Representatives (1941) | Governor of North Carolina (1965–1969) | Judge of the North Carolina Superior Court (1948–1958) |
| Samuel B. Moore | Alabama | Alabama House of Representatives (1823) Alabama Senate (1828–1835) | Governor of Alabama (1831) | Judge of the Alabama District Court (1835–1841) |
| Marcus Morton | Massachusetts | Massachusetts House of Representatives (1858) | Governor of Massachusetts (1825, 1840–1841, 1843–1844) Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1824–1825) | Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1825–1840) |
| Charles W. Mullan | Iowa | Iowa Senate (1898–1901) | Iowa Attorney General (1901–1907) | Judge of the Iowa District Court (1913–1919) |
| Gordon Mydland | South Dakota | South Dakota Senate (1963–1968) | Attorney General of South Dakota (1969–1973) | Judge of the South Dakota Circuit Court (1973–1987) |
| Nathaniel Niles | Vermont | Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives (1784–85) | Vermont Executive Council (1785; 1787) | Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court (1784–1788) |
| C. William O'Neill | Ohio | Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives (1947–1949) | Governor of Ohio (1957–1959) Ohio Attorney General (1951–1957) | Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio (1960–1970) Chief justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio (1970–1978) |
| Steven Pierce | Massachusetts | Massachusetts House of Representatives (1979–1991) | Secretary of Communities and Development (1991) | Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Housing Court (2002–2015) |
| Elisha R. Potter | Rhode Island | Rhode Island House of Representatives (1838–1840) Rhode Island Senate (1847–1852; 1861–1863) | Rhode Island Commissioner of Public Schools (1849–1854) | Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court (1868–1882) |
| William W. Potter | Michigan | Michigan Senate (1899–1900) | Member of the Michigan Public Utilities Commission (1919–1927) Michigan Attorney General (1927–1928) | Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court (1928–1940) Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court (1935) |
| John M. Rankin | Iowa | Iowa House of Representatives (1921–1927) | Iowa Attorney General (1940–1947) | Judge of the Iowa District Court (1925–1938) |
| Daniel Lindsay Russell | North Carolina | North Carolina House of Commons (1864–1866) | Governor of North Carolina (1897–1901) | Judge of the North Carolina Superior Court (1868–1874) |
| Romulus Mitchell Saunders | North Carolina | Speaker of the North Carolina House of Commons (1815–1820); speaker of the House (1819) | North Carolina Attorney General (1828–1831) | Judge of the North Carolina Superior Court (1835–1940) |
| Bill Schuette | Michigan | Michigan Senate (1995–2003) | Director of the Michigan Department of Agriculture (1991–1993) Michigan Attorney General (2011–2019) | Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals (2003–2009) |
| William L. Sharkey | Mississippi | Mississippi House of Representatives (1828–1829) | Governor of Mississippi (1865) | Judge of the Mississippi Circuit Court (1832) Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi (1832–1851) |
| James Shields | Illinois | Illinois House of Representatives (1836) | Illinois Auditor of Public Accounts (1841–1843) | Justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois (1843–1845) |
| Samuel E. Smith | Maine | Maine House of Representatives (1820–1821) | Governor of Maine (1831–1834) | Chief Justice of the Maine Circuit Court of Common Pleas (1821) Justice of the Maine Court of Common Pleas (1822–1830; 1835–1837) |
| Samuel L. Southard | New Jersey | New Jersey General Assembly (1815) | Governor of New Jersey (1832–1833) | Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (1815–1820) |
| Chauncey Sparks | Alabama | Alabama House of Representatives (1919–1923; 1931–1939) | Governor of Alabama (1943–1947) | Judge of the Alabama Inferior Court (1911–1915) |
| David Stone | North Carolina | North Carolina House of Commons (1791–1794; 1811–1812) | Governor of North Carolina (1808–1810) | Judge of the North Carolina Superior Court (1974–1798) |
| David Lowry Swain | North Carolina | North Carolina House of Representatives (1824–1830) | Governor of North Carolina (1832–1835) | Judge of the North Carolina Superior Court (1830–1832) |
| John Swainson | Michigan | Michigan Senate (1954–1958) | Governor of Michigan (1961–1963) Lieutenant Governor of Michigan (1959–1961) | Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court (1971–1975) |
| Lacy Thornburg | North Carolina | North Carolina House of Representatives (1961–1966) | North Carolina Attorney General (1985–1993) | Judge of the North Carolina Superior Court (1967–1983) |
| Charles Upson | Michigan | Michigan Senate (1855–1856; 1881–1882) | Michigan Attorney General (1861–1862) | Judge of the Michigan Circuit Court (1869–1872) |
| Samuel Wells | Maine | Maine House of Representatives (1836–1840) | Governor of Maine (1856–1857) | Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court (1847–1854) |
| Otis M. Whitney | Massachusetts | Massachusetts House of Representatives (1937–1943) | Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Safety (1953–1959) | Presiding justice of the Concord District Court (1962–1968) |
| Isaac Wilbour | Rhode Island | Rhode Island House of Representatives (1805–1806) (speaker) | Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island (1806–1807; 1810–1811) Acting Governor of Rhode Island (1806–1807) | Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court (1818–1819) Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court (1819–1827) |
| George A. Wilson | Iowa | Iowa Senate (1925–1935) | Governor of Iowa (1939–1943) | Judge of the Iowa District Court (1917–1921) |
| Nathaniel Coe | New York | New York State Assembly (1843–1847) | New York State Comptroller | Justice of the peace |