# List of justices of the Louisiana Supreme Court

Following is a list of justices of the Louisiana Supreme Court and their years of service.

## Territory of Orleans (1804–1812)

(three judges)
* John Bartow Prevost 1804–1806
* Ephraim Kirby 1804 (died en route to New Orleans)
* Peter Stephen Du Ponceau 1804 (declined Jefferson's appointment)
* William Sprigg 1806–1808
* George Mathews Jr. 1806–1813
* Joshua Lewis 1807–1813
* John Thompson 1808–1810
* Francois Xavier Martin 1810–1813

## State of Louisiana (1813 to the present)
### Constitution of 1812

(three to five judges appointed by the governor)
* Dominic Augustin Hall 1813, Presiding Judge
* Pierre Derbigny 1813–1820
* George Mathews Jr. 1813–1836, Presiding Judge
* Francois Xavier Martin 1815–1836;
* Alexander Porter 1821–1833
* Henry Adams Bullard 1834–1839
* Francois Xavier Martin 1836–1846, Presiding Judge
* Henry Carleton 1837–1839
* Pierre Adolphe Rost 1839
* George Eustis Sr. 1839
* George Strawbridge 1839
* Rice Garland 1840–1846
* Alonzo Morphy 1839–1846
* Henry Adams Bullard 1840–1846
* Florent Edouard Simon 1840–1846

### Constitution of 1845

(three associate justices and one chief justice)
* Pierre Adolphe Rost 1846–1854
* George Eustis Sr. 1846–1853, Chief Justice
* George Rogers King 1846–1850
* Thomas Slidell 1846–1853; 1853–1855, Chief Justice
* Isaac Trimble Preston 1850–1852

### Constitution of 1852

(four associate justices elected in districts and one chief justice elected at-large)
* William Dunbar 1852–1853
* Cornelius Voorhies 1853–1859
* Alexander McKenzie Buchanan 1853–1862
* Abner Nash Ogden 1853–1855
* James G. Campbell 1853–1854
* Henry M. Spofford 1854–1858
* James Neilson Lea 1855–1857
* Edwin T. Merrick 1855–1865, Chief Justice
* James L. Cole 1857–1860
* Thomas T. Land 1858–1865
* Albert Voorhies 1859–1865
* Albert Duffel 1860–1865
* Pierre Emile Bonford 1863–1864
* Thomas Courtland Manning 1864–1865

### Constitution of 1864

(four associate justices and one chief justice appointed by the governor for 8 year terms)
* William B. Hyman 1865–1868, Chief Justice
* Zenon Labauve Jr. 1865–1868
* Rufus K. Howell 1865–1877
* John Henry Ilsley 1865–1868
* Robert Byron Jones 1865–1866
* James G. Taliaferro 1866–1876
* John T. Ludeling 1868–1877, Chief Justice
* William Gillespie Wyly 1868–1876
* William Wirt Howe 1868–1872
* John H. Kennard 1872–1873
* Philip H. Morgan 1873–1877
* John E. Leonard 1876–1877
* John Edward King 1877
* Thomas Courtland Manning 1877–1880, Chief Justice
* Robert Hardin Marr 1877–1880
* Alcibiade De Blanc 1877–1880
* William B. Giles Egan 1877–1878
* William B. Spencer 1877–1880
* Edward Douglass White 1879–1880

### Constitution of 1879

(four associate justices and one chief justice appointed by the governor for 12 year terms)
* Edouard Bermudez 1880–1892, Chief Justice
* Felix Pierre Poché 1880–1890
* Robert Barr Todd 1880–1888
* William M. Levy 1880–1882
* Charles Erasmus Fenner 1880–1893
* Thomas Courtland Manning 1882–1886
* Samuel D. McEnery 1888–1891
* Lynn B. Watkins 1886–1901
* Joseph Arsenne Breaux 1890–1904; 1904–1914, Chief Justice
* Francis T. Nicholls 1892–1904; 1904–1911, Chief Justice
* Charles Parlange 1893–1894
* Henry C. Miller 1894–1899
* Newton C. Blanchard 1897–1903

### Constitution of 1898

(five justices appointed by the governor, with the chief justice determined by time in service)
* Frank A. Monroe 1899–1914; 1914–1921, Chief Justice
* Olivier O. Provosty 1901–1922; 1922, Chief Justice
* Alfred D. Land 1903–1917
* Walter B. Sommerville 1911–1921
* Joseph Arsenne Breaux 1904–1914, Chief Justice

### Constitution of 1913

(five justices elected by the people, with the chief justice determined by time in service)
* Charles Austin O'Niell 1914–1922; 1922–1949, Chief Justice
* Paul Leche 1917–1919
* Benjamin C. Dawkins Sr. 1918–1924

### Constitution of 1921

(seven justices elected by the people, with the chief justice determined by time in service)
* Joshua G. Baker 1921–1922
* Robert Reid 1923–1923
* David N. Thompson 1922–1930
* Winston Overton 1921–1934
* John St. Paul 1922–1934
* John R. Land 1921–1941
* Wynne Grey Rogers 1922–1946
* Harney Felix Brunot 1923–1936
* Frederick M. Odom 1931–1945
* Archibald T. Higgins 1934–1945
* John B. Fournet 1935–1970; 1949–1970, Chief Justice
* Amos Lee Ponder Jr. 1937–1959
* Robert F. Kennon 1945–1946
* E. Howard McCaleb Jr. 1941–1943; 1947–1970; 1971–1972, Chief Justice
* Frank W. Hawthorne 1945–1968
* Joe Busbey Hamiter 1943–1970; Chief Justice 1970
* Nathaniel W. Bond 1947–1948
* Harold A. Moise 1948–1958
* J. Cleveland Frugé 1949
* Samuel A. LeBlanc I 1949–1954
* James D. Simon 1955–1960
* Albert Tate Jr. 1970–1979
* Walter B. Hamlin 1958–1972; 1972–1973, Chief Justice
* Rene A. Viosca 1959–1960
* Joe W. Sanders 1960–1973; 1973–1978, Chief Justice
* Frank Summers 1960–1978; 1979–1980, Chief Justice
* Mack E. Barham 1968–1975
* John Allen Dixon Jr. 1971–1980; 1980–1990, Chief Justice
* Pascal F. Calogero Jr. 1973–1990; 1990–2008, Chief Justice
* Walter F. Marcus Jr. 1973–2000

### Constitution of 1974

(seven justices elected in single-member districts after reapportionment by legislation effective in the year 2000; the chief justice is determined seniority of service)
* James L. Dennis 1975–1995
* Fred A. Blanche Jr. 1979–1986
* Jack C. Watson 1979–1996
* Harry T. Lemmon 1980–2001
* Luther F. Cole 1986–1992
* Pike Hall Jr. 1990–1994
* Catherine D. Kimball 1992–2009; 2009–2013, Chief Justice
* Revius Ortique Jr. 1993–1994
* Bernette Joshua Johnson 1994–2020; 2013–2020, Chief Justice
* Jeffrey P. Victory 1995–2014
* E. Joseph Bleich 1996
* Jeannette Knoll 1997–2016
* Chet D. Traylor 1997–2009
* John L. Weimer 2001–present; 2021–present, Chief Justice
* Greg G. Guidry 2009–2019
* Marcus R. Clark 2009–2020
* Jefferson D. Hughes III 2013–present
* Scott J. Crichton 2015–2025
* James T. Genovese 2017–2024
* William J. Crain 2019–present
* Jay McCallum 2021–present
* Piper D. Griffin 2021–present
* John Guidry 2025–present
* Cade Cole 2025–present