# List of justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

The following is a list of justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court which are broken down by pre- and post-statehood appointments. Historically, only three individuals have declined appointment to the Court which all occurred during the Provincial Congress period: William Reed in 1775, Robert Treat Paine in 1776, and James Warren in 1777. In the modern era, mandatory retirement has been a requirement when a given justice reaches the age of 70. This has been in place since 1976 when Chief Justice G. Joseph Tauro stepped down.

## Current justices

| Title | Name | Began active service | Appointed by | Reaches age 70 |
| Chief Justice | Kimberly S. Budd | 2020 | Charlie Baker | 2036 |
| Associate Justice | Frank Gaziano | 2016 | Charlie Baker | 2034 |
| Associate Justice | Scott L. Kafker | 2017 | Charlie Baker | 2029 |
| Associate Justice | Dalila Argaez Wendlandt | 2020 | Charlie Baker | 2038 |
| Associate Justice | Serge Georges Jr. | 2020 | Charlie Baker | 2038 |
| Associate Justice | Bessie Dewar | 2024 | Maura Healey | 2050 |
| Associate Justice | Gabrielle Wolohojian | 2024 | Maura Healey | 2030 |

## Superior Court of Judicature (1692–1780)

* Appointed by Provincial Congress

### Chief Justices

| Justice | Justice | Succeeded | Tenure | Appointed by |
| 1 | William Stoughton (1631–1701) | Inaugural | 1692 – July 7, 1701 (Died) | Sir William Phips |
| 2 | Wait Winthrop (1642–1717) | W. Stoughton | 1701 – 1701 (Resigned) | Governor's Council |
| 3 | Isaac Addington (1645–1719) | W. Winthrop | 1702 – 1703 (Resigned) | Joseph Dudley |
| 4 | Wait Winthrop (1642–1717) | I. Addington | 1708 – November 7, 1717 (Died) | Joseph Dudley |
| 5 | Samuel Sewall (1652–1730) | W. Winthrop | 1718 – 1728 (Resigned) | Samuel Shute |
| 6 | Benjamin Lynde Sr. (1666–1749) | Sa. Sewall | 1729 – January 28, 1745 (Died) | William Burnet |
| 7 | Paul Dudley (1666–1751) | B. Lynde Sr. | 1745 – January 25, 1751 (Died) | William Shirley |
| 8 | Stephen Sewall (1702–1760) | P. Dudley | 1751 – September 10, 1760 (Died) | William Shirley |
| 9 | Thomas Hutchinson (1711–1780) | St. Sewall | 1761 – 1769 (Became Acting Governor) | Francis Bernard |
| 10 | Benjamin Lynde Jr. (1700–1781) | T. Hutchinson | 1769 – 1771 (Resigned) | Thomas Hutchinson |
| 11 | Peter Oliver (1713–1791) | B. Lynde Jr. | 1772 – 1775 (Removed from office) | Thomas Hutchinson |
| 12 | John Adams (1735–1826) | Inaugural | 1775 – 1776 (Never presided, resigned) | Provincial Congress |
| 13 | William Cushing (1732–1810) | J. Adams | 1777 – 1780 (Constitution of 1780) | Provincial Congress |

### Associate Justices

| Justice | Justice | Succeeded | Tenure | Appointed by |
| 1 | Thomas Danforth (bapt. 1623–1699) | Inaugural | 1692 – November 5, 1699 (Died) | Sir William Phips |
| 2 | Wait Winthrop (1642–1717) | Inaugural | 1692 – 1701 (Continued as Chief Justice) | Sir William Phips |
| 3 | John Richards (bef. 1630–1694) | Inaugural | 1692 – April 2, 1694 (Died) | Sir William Phips |
| 4 | Samuel Sewall (1652–1730) | Inaugural | 1692 – 1718 (Continued as Chief Justice) | Sir William Phips |
| 5 | Elisha Cooke Sr. (1637–1715) | J. Richards | 1695 – 1702 (Resigned) | William Stoughton |
| 6 | John Walley (d. 1712) | T. Danforth | 1700 – 1712 (Died) | William Stoughton |
| 7 | John Saffin (bapt. 1626–1710) | W. Winthrop | 1701 – 1702 (Appointment not renewed) | Governor's Council |
| 8 | John Hathorne (1641–1717) | E. Cooke | 1702 – 1712 (Resigned) | Joseph Dudley |
| 9 | John Leverett (1662–1724) | J. Saffin | 1702 – 1708 (Resigned) | Joseph Dudley |
| 10 | Jonathan Corwin (1640–1718) | J. Leverett | 1708 – 1717 (Appointment not renewed) | Joseph Dudley |
| 11 | Benjamin Lynde Sr. (1666–1749) | Vacant | 1712 – 1729 (Continued as Chief Justice) | Joseph Dudley |
| 12 | Nathaniel Thomas (1643–1718) | Vacant | 1712 – October 22, 1718 (Died) | Joseph Dudley |
| 13 | Addington Davenport (1670–1736) | J. Corwin | December 9, 1715 – April 3, 1736 (Died) | William Tailer |
| 14 | Edmund Quincy III (1681–1737) | Vacant | 1718 – February 23, 1737 (Died) | Samuel Shute |
| 15 | Paul Dudley (1666–1751) | Vacant | 1718 – 1751 (Continued as Chief Justice) | Samuel Shute |
| 16 | John Cushing | B. Lynde Sr. | 1728 – 1733 (Resigned) | William Burnet |
| 17 | Jonathan Remington (1677–1745) | J. Cushing | 1733 – September 20, 1745 (Died) | Jonathan Belcher |
| 18 | Richard Saltonstall | A. Davenport | 1736 – 1756 (Resigned) | Jonathan Belcher |
| 19 | Thomas Graves (1684–1747) | E. Quincy | 1737 – 1738 (Resigned) | Jonathan Belcher |
| 20 | Stephen Sewall (1702–1760) | T. Graves | 1739 – 1745 (Continued as Chief Justice) | Jonathan Belcher |
| 21 | Nathaniel Hubbard (1680–1748) | P. Dudley | 1745 – 1746 | William Shirley |
| 22 | Benjamin Lynde Jr. (1700–1781) | J. Remington | 1747 – 1769 (Continued as Chief Justice) | William Shirley |
| 23 | John Cushing Jr. | N. Hubbard | 1747 – 1771 (Resigned) | William Shirley |
| 24 | Chambers Russell (1713–1766) | St. Sewall | 1752 – 1766 (Died) | Spencer Phips |
| 25 | Peter Oliver (1713–1791) | R. Saltonstall | 1756 – 1772 (Continued as Chief Justice) | William Shirley |
| 26 | Edmund Trowbridge (1709–1793) | C. Russell | 1767 – 1775 (Removed from office) | Francis Bernard |
| 27 | Foster Hutchinson (1724–1799) | B. Lynde Jr. | 1771 – 1775 (Removed from office) | Thomas Hutchinson |
| 28 | Nathaniel Ropes (1726–1774) | Vacant | 1772 – 1774 (Died) | Thomas Hutchinson |
| 29 | William Cushing (1732–1810) | Vacant | 1772 – 1775 (Reorganization of Court) | Thomas Hutchinson |
| 30 | William Brown (1737–1802) | N. Ropes | 1774 – 1775 (Removed from office) | Thomas Hutchinson |
| 31 | William Cushing (1732–1810) | Inaugural | 1775 – 1776 (Continued as Chief Justice) | Provincial Congress |
| 32 | Nathaniel Sargent (1731–1791) | Inaugural | 1775 – 1780 (Constitution of 1780) | Provincial Congress |
| 33 | Jedediah Foster (1726–1779) | Inaugural | 1776 – October 17, 1779 (Died) | Provincial Congress |
| 34 | James Sullivan (1744–1808) | Inaugural | March 1776 – 1780 (Constitution of 1780) | Provincial Congress |
| 35 | David Sewall (1735–1825) | W. Cushing | 1777 – 1780 (Constitution of 1780) | Provincial Congress |

## Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1780–present)
### List of justices

| Image | Justice | Position | Succeeded | Tenure | Appointed by |
| | William Cushing (1732–1810) | Chief Justice | Inaugural | 1780 – 1789 (Appointed to Supreme Court of the United States) | |
| — | Nathaniel Sargent (1731–1791) | Associate Justice | Inaugural | 1780 – 1791 (Continued as Chief Justice) | |
| | David Sewall (1735–1825) | Associate Justice | Inaugural | 1780 – 1789 (Appointed to U.S. District Court) | |
| | James Sullivan (1744–1808) | Associate Justice | Inaugural | 1780 – 1782 (Resigned) | |
| | Francis Dana (1743–1811) | Associate Justice | J. Foster (1779) | 1785 – 1806 (Continued as Chief Justice) | |
| | Increase Sumner (1746–1799) | Associate Justice | J. Sullivan | 1782 – 1787 (Resigned to become Governor) | John Hancock |
| — | Nathaniel Sargent (1731–1791) | Chief Justice | W. Cushing | 1790 – October 2, 1791 (Died) | John Hancock |
| | Robert Treat Paine (1731–1814) | Associate Justice | D. Sewall | 1790 – 1804 (Resigned) | John Hancock |
| — | Nathan Cushing (1742–1812) | Associate Justice | N. Sargent (as Associate Justice) | 1790 – 1800 (Resigned) | John Hancock |
| | Francis Dana (1743–1811) | Chief Justice | N. Sargent (as Chief Justice) | 1791 – 1806 (Resigned) | John Hancock |
| | Thomas Dawes (1731–1809) | Associate Justice | F. Dana | 1792 – 1802 (Resigned) | John Hancock |
| — | Theophilus Bradbury (1739–1803) | Associate Justice | I. Sumner | 1797 – July 1803 (Removed due to poor health) | John Hancock |
| | Samuel Sewall (1757–1814) | Associate Justice | N. Cushing | 1800 – 1814 (Continued as Chief Justice) | Caleb Strong |
| | Theodore Sedgwick (1746–1813) | Associate Justice | T. Dawes | 1802 – January 24, 1813 (Died) | Caleb Strong |
| — | Simeon Strong (1736–1805) | Associate Justice | Inaugural | 1801 – 1805 (Died) | Caleb Strong |
| | George Thatcher (1754–1824) | Associate Justice | Inaugural | 1801 – January 1824 (Resigned) | Caleb Strong |
| | Theophilus Parsons (1750–1813) | Chief Justice | F. Dana | 1806 – October 13, 1813 (Died) | Caleb Strong |
| | Isaac Parker (1768–1830) | Associate Justice | S. Strong | 1806 – 1814 (Continued as Chief Justice) | Caleb Strong |
| — | Charles Jackson (1775–1855) | Associate Justice | T. Sedgwick | 1813 – 1823 (Resigned) | Caleb Strong |
| | Samuel Sewall (1757–1814) | Chief Justice | T. Parsons | 1814 – June 8, 1814 (Died) | Caleb Strong |
| | Daniel Dewey (1766–1815) | Associate Justice | S. Sewall | 1814 – May 26, 1815 (Died) | Caleb Strong |
| — | Samuel Putnam | Associate Justice | I. Parker (as Associate Justice) | 1814 – 1842 (Resigned) | Caleb Strong |
| | Isaac Parker (1768–1830) | Chief Justice | S. Sewall | 1814 – July 25, 1830 (Died) | Caleb Strong |
| — | Samuel Wilde (1771–1855) | Associate Justice | D. Dewey | 1815 – 1850 (Resigned) | Caleb Strong |
| | Levi Lincoln Jr. (1782–1868) | Associate Justice | G. Thatcher | 1824 – 1825 (Elected Governor) | William Eustis |
| | Marcus Morton (1784–1864) | Associate Justice | L. Lincoln Jr. | 1825 – 1840 (Elected Governor) | Levi Lincoln Jr. |
| | Lemuel Shaw (1781–1861) | Chief Justice | I. Parker | August 30, 1830 – August 21, 1860 (Resigned) | Levi Lincoln Jr. |
| — | Charles Augustus Dewey (1793–1866) | Associate Justice | Inaugural | 1837 – 1866 (Died) | Edward Everett |
| — | Samuel Hubbard (d. 1847) | Associate Justice | S. Putnam | 1842 – 1847 (Died) | John Davis |
| | Theron Metcalf (1784–1875) | Associate Justice | M. Morton I (1840) | 1848 – 1865 (Resigned) | George N. Briggs |
| — | Charles E. Forbes (1795–1881) | Associate Justice | T. Metcalf | 1848 – 1848 (Resigned) | George N. Briggs |
| | Richard Fletcher (1788–1869) | Associate Justice | C. Forbes | 1848 – 1853 (Resigned) | George N. Briggs |
| | George Tyler Bigelow (1810–1878) | Associate Justice | S. Wilde | 1850 – 1860 (Continued as Chief Justice) | George N. Briggs |
| | Caleb Cushing (1800–1879) | Associate Justice | Inaugural | 1852 – 1853 (Appointed U.S. Attorney General) | George S. Boutwell |
| | Benjamin Thomas (1813–1878) | Associate Justice | R. Fletcher | 1853 – 1859 (Resigned) | John H. Clifford |
| | Pliny Merrick (1794–1867) | Associate Justice | C, Cushing | 1853 – 1864 (Resigned) | John H. Clifford |
| | Ebenezer R. Hoar (1816–1895) | Associate Justice | J. Nolan | 1859 – 1869 (Appointed U.S. Attorney General) | Nathaniel Prentice Banks |
| | George Tyler Bigelow (1810–1878) | Chief Justice | L. Shaw | 1860 – 1867 (Resigned) | Nathaniel Prentice Banks |
| | Reuben Atwater Chapman (1801–1873) | Associate Justice | | 1860 – 1868 (Continued as Chief Justice) | Nathaniel Prentice Banks |
| | Horace Gray (1828–1902) | Associate Justice | N. Clifford | 1864 – September 15, 1873 (Continued as Chief Justice) | John Albion Andrew |
| — | James Denison Colt (1819–1881) | Associate Justice | T. Metcalf | 1865 – 1866 (Resigned) | John Albion Andrew |
| | Dwight Foster (1828–1884) | Associate Justice | C. A. Dewey | 1866 – 1869 (Resigned) | Alexander H. Bullock |
| — | John Wells (d. 1875) | Associate Justice | J. D. Colt | 1866 – 1875 (Died) | Alexander H. Bullock |
| | Reuben Atwater Chapman (1801–1873) | Chief Justice | G. T. Bigelow | 1868 – June 28, 1873 (Died) | Alexander H. Bullock |
| — | James Denison Colt (1819–1881) | Associate Justice | R. A. Chapman | 1868 – 1881 (Died) | Alexander H. Bullock |
| | Marcus Morton II (1819–1891) | Associate Justice | E. Hoar | 1869 – 1882 (Continued as Chief Justice) | William Claflin |
| — | Seth Ames (1805–1881) | Associate Justice | D. Foster | 1869 – 1881 (Resigned) | William Claflin |
| | Horace Gray (1828–1902) | Chief Justice | R. A. Chapman | September 15, 1873 – January 9, 1882 (Appointed to Supreme Court of the United States) | William B. Washburn |
| | Charles Devens (1820–1891) | Associate Justice | H. Gray | 1873 – 1877 (Appointed U.S. Attorney General) | William B. Washburn |
| | William Endicott (1826–1900) | Associate Justice | Inaugural | 1873 – 1882 (Resigned) | William B. Washburn |
| — | Otis Lord (1812–1884) | Associate Justice | J. Wells | 1875 – 1882 (Resigned) | William Gaston |
| | Augustus Soule (1827–1887) | Associate Justice | C. Devens | March 27, 1877 – April 11, 1881 (Resigned) | Alexander H. Rice |
| | Walbridge A. Field (1833–1899) | Associate Justice | S. Ames | 1881 – September 4, 1890 (Continued as Chief Justice) | John D. Long |
| — | William Allen (d. 1891) | Associate Justice | | 1881 – 1891 (Died) | John D. Long |
| | Charles Devens (1820–1891) | Associate Justice | A. Soule | 1881 – 1891 (Died) | John D. Long |
| | Marcus Morton II (1819–1891) | Chief Justice | H. Gray | 1882 – 1890 (Resigned) | John D. Long |
| | Waldo Colburn (1824–1885) | Associate Justice | W. C. Endicott | November 10, 1882 – September 26, 1885 (Died) | John D. Long |
| | Charles Allen (1827–1913) | Associate Justice | M. Morton II | 1882 – 1898 (Resigned) | John D. Long |
| | Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) | Associate Justice | O. Lord | 1882 – 1899 (Continued as Chief Justice) | John D. Long |
| — | William Gardner (1827–1888) | Associate Justice | W. Colburn | 1885 – 1887 (Resigned) | George D. Robinson |
| | Marcus Perrin Knowlton (1839–1918) | Associate Justice | W. Gardner | 1887 – 1902 (Continued as Chief Justice) | Oliver Ames |
| | Walbridge A. Field (1833–1899) | Chief Justice | M. Morton | September 4, 1890 – July 15, 1899 (Died) | John Q. A. Brackett |
| | James Madison Morton Sr. (1837–1923) | Associate Justice | | 1890 – 1913 (Resigned) | |
| | James Barker (1839–1905) | Associate Justice | W. Allen | 1891 – October 2, 1905 (Died) | William Russell |
| | John Lathrop (1835–1910) | Associate Justice | | 1891 – 1906 (Resigned) | |
| | John Wilkes Hammond (1837–1922) | Associate Justice | C. Allen | 1898 – 1914 (Resigned) | Roger Wolcott |
| | Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) | Chief Justice | W. A. Field | August 2, 1899 – December 4, 1902 (Appointed to Supreme Court of the United States) | Roger Wolcott |
| | William Loring (1851–1930) | Associate Justice | O. W. Holmes | September 7, 1899 – September 16, 1919 (Resigned) | Roger Wolcott |
| | Henry Braley (1850–1929) | Associate Justice | M. P. Knowlton | 1902 – 1929 (Died) | Winthrop M. Crane |
| | Marcus Perrin Knowlton (1839–1918) | Chief Justice | O. W. Holmes | 1902 – September 7, 1911 (Resigned) | Winthrop M. Crane |
| | Henry Sheldon | Associate Justice | Barker | 1905 – 1915 (Resigned) | William Lewis Douglas |
| | Arthur Prentice Rugg (1862–1938) | Associate Justice | J. Lathrop | 1906 – 1911 (Continued as Chief Justice) | Curtis Guild Jr. |
| | Arthur Prentice Rugg (1862–1938) | Chief Justice | M. P. Knowlton | 1911 – June 12, 1938 (Died) | Eugene Foss |
| | Charles DeCourcy (1857–1924) | Associate Justice | A.P. Rugg | 1911 – 1924 (Died) | Eugene Foss |
| | John C. Crosby (1859–1943) | Associate Justice | J. Morton | December 31, 1913 – October 1, 1937 (Resigned) | David I. Walsh |
| — | Edward Pierce (1852–1938) | Associate Justice | J. Hammond | 1914 – 1937 (Resigned) | David I. Walsh |
| — | James Carroll (d. 1932) | Associate Justice | Sheldon | 1915 – 1932 (Died) | David I. Walsh |
| — | Charles Jenney (1860–1923) | Associate Justice | W. Loring | 1919 – November 29, 1923 (Died) | Calvin Coolidge |
| | William C. Wait (1860–1935) | Associate Justice | C. Jenney | 1923 – 1934 (Resigned) | Channing H. Cox |
| — | George A. Sanderson (1863–1932) | Associate Justice | W. Wait | 1924 – 1932 (Died) | Channing H. Cox |
| — | Fred Tarbell Field (1876–1950) | Associate Justice | H. Braley | January 30, 1929 – June 30, 1938 (Continued as Chief Justice) | Frank G. Allen |
| — | Charles Donahue (1877–1952) | Associate Justice | | March 17, 1932 – April 26, 1944(Resigned) | Joseph B. Ely |
| — | Henry T. Lummus | Associate Justice | | 1932 – 1955 | Joseph B. Ely |
| — | Stanley Elroy Qua (1880–1965) | Associate Justice | | 1934 – 1947 (Continued as Chief Justice) | Joseph B. Ely |
| — | Arthur Dolan (1876–1949) | Associate Justice | J. C. Crosby | 1937 – August 20, 1949 (Resigned) | Charles F. Hurley |
| | Louis Cox (1874–1961) | Associate Justice | Edward Pierce | 1937 – 1944 (Resigned) | Charles F. Hurley |
| — | Fred Tarbell Field (1876–1950) | Chief Justice | A. P. Rugg | June 30, 1938 – July 24, 1947 (Resigned) | Charles F. Hurley |
| — | James Ronan (d. 1959) | Associate Justice | F. T. Field | 1938 – 1959 (Died) | Charles F. Hurley |
| — | Raymond Sanger Wilkins (1891–1971) | Associate Justice | L. Cox | 1944 – 1956 (Continued as Chief Justice) | Leverett Saltonstall |
| — | John Spalding | Associate Justice | C. Donahue | 1944 – 1971 | Leverett Saltonstall |
| — | Stanley Elroy Qua (1880–1965) | Chief Justice | F. T. Field | 1947 – 1956 (Resigned) | Robert F. Bradford |
| | Harold P. Williams (1882–1963) | Associate Justice | S. Qua | 1947 – 1962 (Resigned) | Robert F. Bradford |
| | Edward Counihan (1882–1961) | Associate Justice | A. Dolan | 1949 – 1960 (Resigned) | Paul A. Dever |
| — | Arthur Whittemore (1896–1969) | Associate Justice | H. Lummus | October 1955 – October 1, 1969 (Died) | Christian Herter |
| — | Raymond Sanger Wilkins (1891–1971) | Chief Justice | S. E. Qua | 1956 – 1970(Resigned) | Christian Herter |
| — | R. Ammi Cutter | Associate Justice | | 1956 – 1972 | Christian Herter |
| | Paul G. Kirk Sr. (1904–1981) | Associate Justice | E. Counihan | November 23, 1960 – December 15, 1970 (Resigned) | Foster Furcolo |
| — | Jacob Spiegel (1902–1984) | Associate Justice | J. Ronan | 1960 – 1972 (Resigned) | Foster Furcolo |
| — | G. Joseph Tauro (1906–1994) | Associate Justice | | 1961 – 1970 (Continued as Chief Justice) | John Volpe |
| — | Paul Reardon (1909–1988) | Associate Justice | H. P. Williams | 1962 – 1977 (Resigned) | John Volpe |
| — | G. Joseph Tauro (1906–1994) | Chief Justice | R. S. Wilkins | 1970 – 1976 (Mandatory retirement) | |
| — | Francis J. Quirico | Associate Justice | | 1969 – 1981 | Francis W. Sargent |
| — | Robert Braucher (1916–1981) | Associate Justice | P. Kirk | January 18, 1971 – August 26, 1981 (Died) | Francis W. Sargent |
| — | Edward F. Hennessey (1919–2007) | Associate Justice | J. Spalding | 1971 – 1976 (Continued as Chief Justice) | Francis W. Sargent |
| — | Benjamin Kaplan (1911–2010) | Associate Justice | R. A. Cutter | 1972 – 1981 (Mandatory retirement) | Francis W. Sargent |
| — | Herbert P. Wilkins (1930–) | Associate Justice | J. Spiegel | 1972 – 1996 (Continued as Chief Justice) | Francis W. Sargent |
| — | Edward F. Hennessey (1919–2007) | Chief Justice | G. J. Tauro | 1976 – 1989 (Mandatory retirement) | Michael Dukakis |
| — | Paul J. Liacos (1929–1999) | Associate Justice | E. Hennessey | 1976 – June 20, 1986 (Continued as Chief Justice) | Michael Dukakis |
| — | Ruth Abrams (1930–2019) | Associate Justice | P. Reardon | 1978 – 2000 (Mandatory retirement) | Michael Dukakis |
| | Joseph R. Nolan (1925–2013) | Associate Justice | F. Quirico | 1981 – 1995 (Mandatory retirement) | Edward J. King |
| — | Neil L. Lynch (1930–2014) | Associate Justice | B. Kaplan | 1981 – 2000 (Mandatory retirement) | Edward J. King |
| — | Francis Patrick O'Connor (1927–2007) | Associate Justice | R. Braucher | 1981 – 1997 (Mandatory retirement) | Edward J. King |
| — | Paul J. Liacos (1929–1999) | Chief Justice | E. Hennessey | June 20, 1986 – September 30, 1996 (Resigned) | Michael Dukakis |
| — | John M. Greaney (1939–) | Associate Justice | P. Liacos | 1989 – 2008 (Resigned) | Michael Dukakis |
| | Charles Fried (1935–2024) | Associate Justice | J. Nolan | September 1995 – June 1999 (Resigned) | William Weld |
| | Margaret H. Marshall (1944–) | Associate Justice | | 1996 – October 14, 1999 (Continued as Chief Justice) | William Weld |
| — | Herbert P. Wilkins (1930–) | Chief Justice | P. Liacos | 1996 – October 13, 1999 (Resigned) | William Weld |
| — | Roderick L. Ireland (1944–) | Associate Justice | | 1997 – December 20, 2010 (Continued as Chief Justice) | William Weld |
| | Margaret H. Marshall (1944–) | Chief Justice | H. Wilkins | October 14, 1999 – October 31, 2010 (Resigned) | Paul Cellucci |
| — | Judith Cowin (1942–) | Associate Justice | C. Fried | 1999 – 2011 (Resigned) | Paul Cellucci |
| — | Francis X. Spina (1946–) | Associate Justice | M. Marshall | 1999 – August 12, 2016 (Mandatory retirement) | Paul Cellucci |
| — | Martha B. Sosman (1950–2007) | Associate Justice | N. Lynch | 2000 – March 10, 2007 (Died) | Paul Cellucci |
| — | Robert J. Cordy (1949–) | Associate Justice | R. Abrams | 2001 – August 12, 2016 (Resigned) | Paul Cellucci |
| | Margot Botsford (1947–) | Associate Justice | M. Sosman | September 4, 2007 – March 15, 2017 (Mandatory retirement) | Deval Patrick |
| | Ralph Gants (1954–2020) | Associate Justice | J. Greaney | January 29, 2009 – July 28, 2014 (Continued as Chief Justice) | Deval Patrick |
| — | Roderick L. Ireland (1944–) | Chief Justice | M. Marshall | December 20, 2010 – July 25, 2014 (Mandatory retirement) | Deval Patrick |
| | Barbara Lenk (1950–) | Associate Justice | J. Cowin | June 8, 2011 – December 1, 2020 (Mandatory retirement) | Deval Patrick |
| — | Fernande R.V. Duffly (1949–) | Associate Justice | R. Ireland | February 1, 2011 – July 12, 2016 (Resigned) | Deval Patrick |
| | Ralph Gants (1954–2020) | Chief Justice | R. Ireland | July 28, 2014 – September 14, 2020 (Died) | Deval Patrick |
| — | Geraldine Hines (1947–) | Associate Justice | R. Gants | July 31, 2014 – August 18, 2017 (Mandatory retirement) | Deval Patrick |
| | Frank Gaziano (1963–) | Associate Justice | F. Spina | August 18, 2016 – Incumbent | Charlie Baker |
| | Kimberly S. Budd (1966–) | Associate Justice | F. Duffly | August 24, 2016 – December 1, 2020 (Continued as Chief Justice) | Charlie Baker |
| | David A. Lowy (1959/60–) | Associate Justice | R. Cordy | August 24, 2016 – February 3, 2024 (Retired) | Charlie Baker |
| | Elspeth B. Cypher (1959–) | Associate Justice | M. Botsford | March 31, 2017 – January 12, 2024 (Retired) | Charlie Baker |
| | Scott Kafker (1959–) | Associate Justice | G. Hines | August 21, 2017 – Incumbent | Charlie Baker |
| | Kimberly S. Budd (1966–) | Chief Justice | R. Gants | December 1, 2020 – Incumbent | Charlie Baker |
| | Dalila Argaez Wendlandt (1968/69–) | Associate Justice | B. Lenk | December 4, 2020 – Incumbent | Charlie Baker |
| | Serge Georges Jr. (1969-70–) | Associate Justice | K. Budd | December 16, 2020 – Incumbent | Charlie Baker |
| — | Bessie Dewar (1980–) | Associate Justice | E. Cypher | January 16, 2024 – Incumbent | Maura Healey |
| — | Gabrielle Wolohojian (1960–) | Associate Justice | D. Lowy | April 22, 2024 – Incumbent | Maura Healey |