# List of justices of the Kentucky Supreme Court

Following is a list of persons who have served as justices of the Kentucky Supreme Court in its various forms since 1792.

## 1792–1895

| Justice | Began active service | End of active service | Chief Justice start | Chief Justice end |
| Harry Innes | 1792 | 1792 | | |
| Benjamin Sebastian | 1792 | 1806 | | |
| Caleb Wallace | 1792 | 1813 | | |
| George Muter | 1792 | 1806 | 1792 | 1806 |
| Thomas Todd | 1801 | 1807 | 1806 | 1807 |
| Felix Grundy | 1806 | 1808 | 1807 | 1808 |
| Ninian Edwards | 1806 | 1809 | 1808 | 1809 |
| Robert Trimble | 1807 | 1809 | | |
| William I. Logan | 1808 | 1810 1818 | | |
| George M. Bibb | 1808 1827 | 1809 1828 | | |
| John Boyle | 1809 | 1827 | 1810 | 1827 |
| James Clark | 1810 | 1812 | | |
| William Owsley | 1812 | 1828 | | |
| John Rowan | 1819 | | | |
| Benjamin Mills | 1820 | 1828 | | |
| William T. Barry | 1825 | | | |
| James Haggin | 1825 | | | |
| John Trimble | 1825 | | | |
| Benjamin W. Patton | 1825 | | | |
| Rezin Davidge | 1825 | | | |
| John Telemachus Johnson | 1826 | 1826 | | |
| George Robertson | 1828 1864 | 1842 1871 | 1829 1870 | 1842 1871 |
| Joseph R. Underwood | 1828 | 1834 | | |
| R. A. Buckner | 1829 | 1832 | | |
| Samuel Smith Nicholas | 1831 | 1837 | | |
| Iphraim M. Ewing | 1835 | 1846 | 1843 | 1846 |
| John Chambers | 1835 | - | - | |
| T. A. Marshall | 1835 | 1856 | 1847 1854 1866 | 1851 1856 - |
| Daniel Breck | 1843 | 1849 | | |
| James Simpson | 1847 | 1860 | 1851 1858 | 1852 1860 |
| Asher W. Graham | 1849 | 1851 | | |
| B. Mills Crenshaw | 1851 | 1857 | 1856 | 1857 |
| Elijah Hise | 1851 | 1854 | 1852 | 1854 |
| Henry J. Stites | 1854 | 1862 | 1860 | 1862 |
| Alvin Duvall | 1856 | 1864 | 1862 | 1864 |
| Zachariah Wheat | 1857 | 1858 | 1857 | 1858 |
| Henry C. Wood | 1858 | 1861 | | |
| Belvard J. Peters | 1860 | 1876 | 1866 1874 | 1868 1876 |
| Joshua Bullitt | 1861 | 1865 | 1864 | 1865 |
| Rufus K. Williams | 1862 | 1870 | 1868 | 1870 |
| William Sampson | 1865 | 1866 | 1865 | 1866 |
| M. R. Hardin | 1866 | 1874 | 1872 | 1874 |
| William Lindsay | 1870 | 1878 | 1876 | 1878 |
| William S. Pryor | 1871 | 1897 | 1871 1878 1886 1895 | 1872 1880 1888 1897 |
| Martin H. Cofer | 1874 | 1881 | 1880 | 1881 |
| John Milton Elliott | 1876 | 1879 | | |
| Thomas Hines | 1878 | 1886 | 1884 | 1886 |
| T. F. Hargis | 1879 | 1884 | 1882 | 1884 |
| Joseph Horace Lewis | 1881 | 1899 | 1881 1888 1897 | 1882 1890 1899 |
| William H. Holt | 1884 | 1893 | 1890 | 1893 |
| Caswell Bennett | 1886 | 1894 | 1893 | 1894 |
| J. H. Hazelrigg | 1893 | 1901 | 1899 | 1901 |
| Isaac M. Quigley | 1894 | 1895 | 1894 | 1895 |

## 1895 reorganization

| Justice | Began active service | End of active service | Chief Justice start | Chief Justice end |
| John R. Grace | 1895 | 1896 | | |
| B. L. D. Guffy | 1895 | 1903 | 1902 | 1903 |
| Sterling B. Toney | 1895 | | | |
| T. H. Paynter | 1895 | 1906 | 1901 | 1902 |
| George B. Estin | 1895 | | | |
| George Durelle | 1895 | 1903 | | |
| Jos. I. Landes | 1896 | | | |
| James D. White | 1896 | 1903 | | |
| A. R. Burnam | 1897 | 1905 | 1903 | 1905 |
| John P. Hobson | 1899 | 1915 | 1905 1911 | 1907 1915 |
| Edward C. O'Rear | 1901 | 1911 | 1907 | 1909 |
| W. E. Settle | 1903 | 1927 | 1909 1919 | 1917 1925 |
| T. J. Nunn | 1903 | 1914 | 1909 | 1910 |
| Henry Stites Barker | 1903 | 1911 | 1910 | 1911 |
| James E. Cantrill | 1905 | 1907 | | |
| John M. Lassing | 1906 | 1913 | | |
| John D. Carroll | 1907 | 1921 | 1919 | 1921 |
| Shackelford Miller Sr. | 1911 | 1919 | 1915 | 1917 |
| Robert H. Winn | 1911 | 1912 | | |
| C. C. Turner | 1912 | 1917 | | |
| J. B. Hannah | 1913 | 1915 | | |
| C. S. Nunn | 1914 | 1915 | | |
| Rollin Hurt | 1915 | 1923 | 1921 | 1923 |
| Ernest S. Clarke | 1915 | 1926 | 1925 | 1926 |
| Gus Thomas | 1915 | 1951 | 1926 1929 | 1927 1931 |
| Flem D. Sampson | 1917 | 1927 | 1923 | 1925 |
| Huston Quin | 1919 | 1921 | | |
| William Rogers Clay | 1921 | 1938 | 1927 1935 | 1929 1937 |
| Charles Harwood Moorman | 1921 | 1923 | | |
| D. A. McCandless | 1923 | 1929 | 1929 | 1929 |
| H. W. Robinson | 1923 | 1924 | | |
| Joseph T. O'Neal | 1924 | 1924 | | |
| R. P. Dietzman | 1924 | 1935 | 1931 | 1933 |
| C. W. Goodpaster | 1926 | 1926 | | |
| William H. Rees | 1926 | 1951 | 1933 1941 1945 | 1935 1942 1947 |
| M. M. Logan | 1927 | 1931 | 1931 | 1931 |
| Simeon Willis | 1928 | 1933 | | |
| William S. Grigsby | 1929 | 1931 | | |
| Basil Richardson | 1931 | 1937 | 1937 | 1937 |
| A. J. Bratcher | 1931 | 1931 | | |
| Wesley Vick Perry | 1931 | 1943 | 1942 | 1943 |
| Alex L. Ratliff | 1933 | 1944 | 1937 1939 | 1938 1941 |
| James W. Stites | 1935 | 1939 | 1938 | 1939 |
| Virgil H. Baird | 1937 | 1938 | | |
| James W. Cammack | 1938 | 1953 | 1944 1951 | 1945 1953 |
| Will H. Fulton | 1938 | 1944 | 1943 | 1944 |
| Henry J. Tilford | 1939 | 1945 | 1945 |
| Porter Sims | 1943 | 1959 | 1947 1953 | 1951 1954 |
| E. Poe Harris | 1944 | 1945 | | |
| B. J. Bethurum | 1944 | 1944 | | |
| Clyde B. Latimer | 1944 | 1952 | | |
| Thomas S. Dawson | 1945 | 1947 | | |
| Eugene Siler | 1945 | 1949 | | |
| Thomas J. Knight | 1947 | 1951 | | |
| Roy Helm | 1949 | 1951 | | |
| James B. Milliken | 1951 | 1975 | 1956 1963 1971 | 1957 1964 1973 |
| John R. Moremen | 1951 | 1966 | 1957 1965 | 1964 1966 |
| Brady M. Stewart | 1951 | 1967 | 1954 1962 | 1956 1963 |
| Bert Combs | 1951 | 1955 | | |
| Parker W. Duncan | 1952 | 1954 | | |
| Morris C. Montgomery | 1954 | 1969 | 1959 1968 | 1960 1969 |
| Astor Hogg | 1955 | 1957 | | |
| Robert B. Bird | 1957 | 1965 | 1960 | 1962 |
| Amos H. Eblen | 1958 | 1960 | | |
| Thomas E. Sandidge | 1959 | 1959 | | |
| Squire N. Williams, Jr. | 1959 | 1969 | 1967 | 1968 |
| John S. Palmore | 1959 | 1982* | 1966 1973 | 1967 1974 |
| Edward P. Hill | 1965 | 1973 | 1969 | 1971 |
| Samuel Steinfeld | 1967 | 1973 | 1972 | 1973 |
| Earl T. Osborne | 1967 | 1975 | 1974 | 1975 |
| C. Homer Niekirk | 1969 | 1973 | | |
| Scott Elgin Reed | 1969 | 1977* | 1975 | 1977 |
| James B. Stephenson | 1973 | 1988* | | |
| Pleas Jones | 1973 | 1979* | | |
| Boyce G. Clayton | 1975 | 1983* | | |
| Marvin J. Sternberg | 1975 | 1982* | | |
| Robert O. Lukowsky | 1975 | 1981* | | |
* *Continued as Justice of the Supreme Court.

## 1975 reorganization

| Justice | District | Began active service | End of active service |
| Boyce G. Clayton | 1st | 1976 | 1983 |
| John S. Palmore | 2nd | 1976 | 1983 |
| Pleas Jones | 3rd | 1976 | 1979 |
| Marvin J. Sternberg | 4th | 1976 | 1983 |
| Scott Elgin Reed | 5th | 1976 | 1979 |
| Robert O. Lukowsky | 6th | 1976 | 1981 |
| James B. Stephenson | 7th | 1976 | 1989 |
| John Calvin Aker | 3rd | 1979 | 1986 |
| Robert F. Stephens | 5th | 1982 | 1999 |
| John Jay O'Hara | 6th | 1982 | 1983 |
| Roy N. Vance | 1st | 1983 | 1991 |
| William Gant | 2nd | 1983 | 1991 |
| Charles M. Leibson | 4th | 1983 | 1995 |
| Donald C. Wintersheimer | 6th | 1983 | 2007 |
| John D. White | 3rd | 1986 | 1986 |
| Joseph Lambert | 3rd | 1987 | 2008 |
| Dan Jack Combs | 7th | 1989 | 1993 |
| Thomas B. Spain | 1st | 1991 | 1995 |
| Charles H. Reynolds | 2nd | 1991 | 1996 |
| Sara Walter Combs | 7th | 1993 | 1993 |
| Janet Stumbo | 7th | 1993 | 2005 |
| William Fuqua | 1st | 1995 | 1995 |
| William Graves | 1st | 1995 | 2006 |
| Nicholas King | 4th | 1995 | 1996 |
| Walter Arnold Baker | 2nd | 1996 | 1996 |
| William S. Cooper | 2nd | 1996 | 2006 |
| Martin E. Johnstone | 4th | 1996 | 2006 |
| James E. Keller | 5th | 1999 | 2006 |
| John C. Roach | 5th | 2005 | 2006 |
| Will T. Scott | 7th | 2005 | 2015 |
| John D. Minton Jr. | 2nd | 2006 | 2023 |
| William E. McAnulty Jr. | 4th | 2006 | 2007 |
| Bill Cunningham | 1st | 2007 | 2019 |
| Lisabeth Tabor Hughes | 4th | 2007 | 2023 |
| Mary C. Noble | 5th | 2007 | 2016 |
| Wilfrid Schroder | 6th | 2007 | 2013 |
| Daniel J. Venters | 3rd | 2008 | 2019 |
| Michelle M. Keller | 6th | 2013 | Incumbent |
| David Allen Barber | 7th | 2015 | 2015 |
| Samuel T. Wright III | 7th | 2015 | 2021 |
| Laurance B. VanMeter | 5th | 2017 | Incumbent |
| Christopher Shea Nickell | 1st | 2019 | Incumbent |
| David Buckingham | 1st | 2019 | 2019 |
| Debra H. Lambert | 3rd | 2019 | Incumbent |
| Robert B. Conley | 7th | 2021 | Incumbent |
| Angela McCormick Bisig | 4th | 2023 | Incumbent |
| Kelly Thompson | 2nd | 2023 | Incumbent |