List of justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

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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.

Justices initially served a lifetime role until (in most cases) they either died or resigned. 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

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

Superior Court of Judicature (1692–1780)

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  •   Appointed by Provincial Congress[a]

Chief justices

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# Image Justice Succeeded Tenure Appointed by
1 William Stoughton
(1631–1701)
Inaugural[b] 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)
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)
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)
12 John Adams
(1735–1826)
Inaugural 1775
–
1777
(Never presided, resigned)
Provincial Congress
13 William Cushing
(1732–1810)
J. Adams 1777
–
1780
(Constitution of 1780)

Associate justices

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# Image Justice Succeeded Tenure Appointed by
1 Thomas Danforth
(1623–1699)
Inaugural[b] 1692
–
November 5, 1699
(Died)
Sir William Phips
2 Wait Winthrop
(1642–1717)
Inaugural[b] 1692
–
1701
(Continued as Chief Justice)
3 John Richards
(bef. 1630–1694)
Inaugural[b] 1692
–
April 2, 1694
(Died)
4 Samuel Sewall
(1652–1730)
Inaugural[b] 1692
–
1718
(Continued as Chief Justice)
5 Elisha Cooke Sr.
(1637–1715)
J. Richards 1695
–
1702
(Resigned)
William Stoughton
6 John Walley
(d. 1712)
T. Danforth 1700
–
1712
(Died)
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)
10 Jonathan Corwin
(1640–1718)
J. Leverett 1708
–
1717
(Appointment not renewed)
11 Benjamin Lynde Sr.
(1666–1749)
Vacant[c] 1712
–
1729
(Continued as Chief Justice)
12 Nathaniel Thomas
(1643–1718)
1712
–
October 22, 1718
(Died)
13 Addington Davenport
(1670–1736)
J. Corwin December 9, 1715
–
April 3, 1736
(Died)
William Tailer
14 Edmund Quincy III
(1681–1737)
Vacant[d] 1718
–
February 23, 1737
(Died)
Samuel Shute
15 Paul Dudley
(1666–1751)
1718
–
1751
(Continued as Chief Justice)
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)
19 Thomas Graves
(1684–1747)
E. Quincy 1737
–
1738
(Resigned)
20 Stephen Sewall
(1702–1760)
T. Graves 1739
–
1745
(Continued as Chief Justice)
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)
23 John Cushing Jr. N. Hubbard 1747
–
1771
(Resigned)
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[e] 1772
–
1774
(Died)
29 William Cushing
(1732–1810)
1772
–
1775
(Reorganization of Court)
30 William Brown
(1737–1802)
N. Ropes 1774
–
1775
(Removed from office)
31 William Cushing
(1732–1810)
Inaugural 1775
–
1776
(Continued as Chief Justice)
Provincial Congress
32
None[f]
Nathaniel Sargent
(1731–1791)
Inaugural 1775
–
1780
(Constitution of 1780)
33 Jedediah Foster
(1726–1779)
Inaugural 1776
–
October 17, 1779
(Died)
34 James Sullivan
(1744–1808)
Inaugural March 1776
–
1780
(Constitution of 1780)
35 David Sewall
(1735–1825)
W. Cushing 1777
–
1780
(Constitution of 1780)

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1780–present)

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List of justices

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Image Justice Position Succeeded[1] Tenure Appointed by
William Cushing
(1732–1810)
Chief
Justice
Inaugural 1780
–
1789
(Appointed to Supreme Court)
Provincial Congress
None[f]
Nathaniel Sargent
(1731–1791)
Associate
Justice
Inaugural 1780
–
1791
(Continued as Chief Justice)
David Sewall
(1735–1825)
Associate
Justice
Inaugural[g] 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
None[f]
Nathaniel Sargent
(1731–1791)
Chief
Justice
W. Cushing 1790
–
October 2, 1791
(Died)
Robert Treat Paine
(1731–1814)
Associate
Justice
D. Sewall 1790
–
1804
(Resigned)
None[f]
Nathan Cushing
(1742–1812)
Associate
Justice
N. Sargent
(as Associate Justice)
1790
–
1800
(Resigned)
Francis Dana
(1743–1811)
Chief
Justice
N. Sargent
(as Chief Justice)
1791
–
1806
(Resigned)
Thomas Dawes
(1731–1809)
Associate
Justice
F. Dana
(as Associate Justice)
1792
–
1802
(Resigned)
None[f]
Theophilus Bradbury
(1739–1803)
Associate
Justice
I. Sumner 1797
–
July 1803
(Removed due to poor health)
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)
None[f]
Simeon Strong
(1736–1805)
Associate
Justice
Inaugural 1801
–
1805
(Died)
George Thatcher
(1754–1824)
Associate
Justice
Inaugural 1801
–
January 1824
(Resigned)
Theophilus Parsons
(1750–1813)
Chief
Justice
F. Dana 1806
–
October 13, 1813
(Died)
Isaac Parker
(1768–1830)
Associate
Justice
S. Strong 1806
–
1814
(Continued as Chief Justice)
None[f]
Charles Jackson
(1775–1855)
Associate
Justice
T. Sedgwick 1813
–
1823
(Resigned)
Samuel Sewall
(1757–1814)
Chief
Justice
T. Parsons 1814
–
June 8, 1814
(Died)
Daniel Dewey
(1766–1815)
Associate
Justice
S. Sewall
(as Associate Justice)
1814
–
May 26, 1815
(Died)
— Samuel Putnam
(1768–1843)
Associate
Justice
I. Parker
(as Associate Justice)
1814
–
1842
(Resigned)
Isaac Parker
(1768–1830)
Chief
Justice
S. Sewall 1814
–
July 25, 1830
(Died)
— Samuel Wilde
(1771–1855)
Associate
Justice
D. Dewey 1815
–
1850
(Resigned)
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)
— Charles Augustus Dewey
(1793–1866)
Associate
Justice
C. Jackson[h] 1837
–
1866
(Died)
Edward Everett
— Samuel Hubbard
(1785–1847)
Associate
Justice
S. Putnam 1842
–
1847
(Died)
John Davis
Theron Metcalf
(1784–1875)
Associate
Justice
M. Morton I[i] 1848
–
1865
(Resigned)
George N. Briggs
— Charles E. Forbes
(1795–1881)
Associate
Justice
S. Hubbard 1848
–
1848
(Resigned)
Richard Fletcher
(1788–1869)
Associate
Justice
C. Forbes 1848
–
1853
(Resigned)
George Tyler Bigelow
(1810–1878)
Associate
Justice
S. Wilde 1850
–
1860
(Continued as Chief Justice)
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)
Ebenezer R. Hoar
(1816–1895)
Associate
Justice
B. Thomas 1859
–
1869
(Appointed U.S. Attorney General)
Nathaniel Prentice Banks
George Tyler Bigelow
(1810–1878)
Chief
Justice
L. Shaw 1860
–
1867
(Resigned)
Reuben Atwater Chapman
(1801–1873)
Associate
Justice
G. T. Bigelow
(as Associate Justice)
1860
–
1868
(Continued as Chief Justice)
Horace Gray
(1828–1902)
Associate
Justice
P. Merrick 1864
–
September 15, 1873
(Continued as Chief Justice)
John Albion Andrew
— James Denison Colt
(1819–1881)
Associate
Justice
T. Metcalf 1865
–
1866
(Resigned)
Dwight Foster
(1828–1884)
Associate
Justice
J. Colt
(first term)
1866
–
1869
(Resigned)
Alexander H. Bullock
— John Wells
(1819–1875)
Associate
Justice
C. Dewey 1866
–
1875
(Died)
Reuben Atwater Chapman
(1801–1873)
Chief
Justice
G. T. Bigelow 1868
–
June 28, 1873
(Died)
— James Denison Colt
(1819–1881)
Associate
Justice
R. A. Chapman
(as Associate Justice)
1868
–
1881
(Died)
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)
Horace Gray
(1828–1902)
Chief
Justice
R. A. Chapman September 15, 1873
–
January 9, 1882
(Appointed to Supreme Court)
William B. Washburn
Charles Devens
(1820–1891)
Associate
Justice
H. Gray
(as Associate Justice)
1873
–
1877
(Appointed U.S. Attorney General)
William Endicott
(1826–1900)
Associate
Justice
Inaugural 1873
–
1882
(Resigned)
— Otis Lord
(1812–1884)
Associate
Justice
J. Wells 1875
–
1882
(Resigned)
William Gaston
Augustus Soule
(1827–1887)
Associate
Justice
C. Devens
(first term)
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
(1822–1891)
Associate
Justice
J. Colt
(second term)
1881
–
1891
(Died)
Charles Devens
(1820–1891)
Associate
Justice
A. Soule 1881
–
1891
(Died)
Marcus Morton II
(1819–1891)
Chief
Justice
H. Gray 1882
–
1890
(Resigned)
Waldo Colburn
(1824–1885)
Associate
Justice
W. Endicott November 10, 1882
–
September 26, 1885
(Died)
Charles Allen
(1827–1913)
Associate
Justice
M. Morton II 1882
–
1898
(Resigned)
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
(1841–1935)
Associate
Justice
O. Lord 1882
–
1899
(Continued as Chief Justice)
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 II September 4, 1890
–
July 15, 1899
(Died)
John Q. A. Brackett
James Madison Morton Sr.
(1837–1923)
Associate
Justice
W. A. Field
(as 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
C. Devens
(second term)
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)
William Loring
(1851–1930)
Associate
Justice
O. W. Holmes
(as Associate Justice)
September 7, 1899
–
September 16, 1919
(Resigned)
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)
Henry Sheldon
(1843–1926)
Associate
Justice
J. 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
(as Associate Justice)
1911
–
1924
(Died)
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)
James B. Carroll
(1856–1932)
Associate
Justice
H. Sheldon 1915
–
1932
(Died)
— 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
C. DeCourcy 1924
–
1932
(Died)
— 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
J. B. Carroll March 17, 1932
–
April 26, 1944
(Resigned)
Joseph B. Ely
Henry T. Lummus
(1876–1960)
Associate
Justice
G. A. Sanderson 1932
–
1955
(Resigned)
— Stanley Elroy Qua
(1880–1965)
Associate
Justice
W. Wait 1934
–
1947
(Continued as Chief Justice)
— Arthur Dolan
(1876–1949)
Associate
Justice
J. C. Crosby 1937
–
August 20, 1949
(Resigned)
Charles F. Hurley
Louis Cox
(1874–1961)
Associate
Justice
E. Pierce 1937
–
1944
(Resigned)
— Fred Tarbell Field
(1876–1950)
Chief
Justice
A. P. Rugg June 30, 1938
–
July 24, 1947
(Resigned)
— James Ronan
(1884–1959)
Associate
Justice
F. T. Field
(as Associate Justice)
1938
–
1959
(Died)
— Raymond Sanger Wilkins
(1891–1971)
Associate
Justice
L. Cox 1944
–
1956
(Continued as Chief Justice)
Leverett Saltonstall
— John Spalding
(1897–1979)
Associate
Justice
C. Donahue 1944
–
1971
(Resigned)
— 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
(as Associate Justice)
1947
–
1962
(Resigned)
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. Qua 1956
–
1970
(Resigned)
— Richard Ammi Cutter
(1902–1993)
Associate
Justice
R. S. Wilkins
(as Associate Justice)
1956
–
1972
(Resigned)
Paul G. Kirk Sr.
(1904–1981)
Associate
Justice
J. Ronan November 23, 1960
–
December 15, 1970
(Resigned)
Foster Furcolo
— Jacob Spiegel
(1902–1984)
Associate
Justice
E. Counihan 1960
–
1972
(Resigned)
— 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)
— G. Joseph Tauro
(1906–1994)
Chief
Justice
R. S. Wilkins 1970
–
1976
(Mandatory retirement)
— Francis J. Quirico
(1911–1999)
Associate
Justice
A. Whittemore 1969
–
1981
(Mandatory retirement)
Francis W. Sargent
— Robert Braucher
(1916–1981)
Associate
Justice
P. Kirk January 18, 1971
–
August 26, 1981
(Died)
— Edward F. Hennessey
(1919–2007)
Associate
Justice
J. Spalding 1971
–
1976
(Continued as Chief Justice)
— Benjamin Kaplan
(1911–2010)
Associate
Justice
R. A. Cutter 1972
–
1981
(Mandatory retirement)
— Herbert P. Wilkins
(1930–)
Associate
Justice
J. Spiegel 1972
–
1996
(Continued as Chief Justice)
— 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
(as Associate Justice)
1976
–
June 20, 1986
(Continued as Chief Justice)
— Ruth Abrams
(1930–2019)
Associate
Justice
P. Reardon 1978
–
2000
(Mandatory retirement)
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)
— Francis Patrick O'Connor
(1927–2007)
Associate
Justice
R. Braucher 1981
–
1997
(Mandatory retirement)
— 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)
Charles Fried
(1935–2024)
Associate
Justice
J. Nolan September 1995
–
June 1999
(Resigned)
William Weld
Margaret H. Marshall
(1944–)
Associate
Justice
H. Wilkins
(as Associate Justice)
1996
–
October 14, 1999
(Continued as Chief Justice)
— Herbert P. Wilkins
(1930–)
Chief
Justice
P. Liacos 1996
–
October 13, 1999
(Resigned)
Roderick L. Ireland
(1944–)
Associate
Justice
F. O'Connor 1997
–
December 20, 2010
(Continued as Chief Justice)
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)
— Francis X. Spina
(1946–)
Associate
Justice
M. Marshall
(as Associate Justice)
1999
–
August 12, 2016
(Mandatory retirement)
— Martha B. Sosman
(1950–2007)
Associate
Justice
N. Lynch 2000
–
March 10, 2007
(Died)
— Robert J. Cordy
(1949–)
Associate
Justice
R. Abrams 2001
–
August 12, 2016
(Resigned)
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)
Roderick L. Ireland
(1944–)
Chief
Justice
M. Marshall December 20, 2010
–
July 25, 2014
(Mandatory retirement)
Barbara Lenk
(1950–)
Associate
Justice
J. Cowin June 8, 2011
–
December 1, 2020
(Mandatory retirement)
— Fernande R.V. Duffly
(1949–)
Associate
Justice
R. Ireland
(as Associate Justice)
February 1, 2011
–
July 12, 2016
(Resigned)
Ralph Gants
(1954–2020)
Chief
Justice
R. Ireland July 28, 2014
–
September 14, 2020[2][3]
(Died)
— Geraldine Hines
(1947–)
Associate
Justice
R. Gants
(as Associate Justice)
July 31, 2014
–
August 18, 2017
(Mandatory retirement)
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)
David A. Lowy
(1959/60–)
Associate
Justice
R. Cordy August 24, 2016
–
February 3, 2024
(Retired)
Elspeth B. Cypher
(1959–)
Associate
Justice
M. Botsford March 31, 2017
–
January 12, 2024
(Retired)
Scott Kafker
(1959–)
Associate
Justice
G. Hines August 21, 2017
–
Incumbent
Kimberly S. Budd
(1966–)
Chief
Justice
R. Gants December 1, 2020
–
Incumbent
Dalila Argaez Wendlandt
(1969–)
Associate
Justice
K. Budd
(as Associate Justice)
December 4, 2020
–
Incumbent
Serge Georges Jr.
(1970–)
Associate
Justice
B. Lenk December 16, 2020
–
Incumbent
Bessie Dewar
(1980–)
Associate
Justice
E. Cypher January 16, 2024
–
Incumbent
Maura Healey
Gabrielle Wolohojian
(1960–)
Associate
Justice
D. Lowy April 22, 2024
–
Incumbent

Notes

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  1. ^ These justices were appointed by a provisional government. The Province of Massachusetts Bay was dissolved in 1780 when the Constitution of Massachusetts was adopted.
  2. ^ a b c d e All judges appointed before 1695 were reappointed in that year (except John Richards, who had died) because the legislation creating the court was vetoed in that year by the Privy Council. Several further attempts to legislate the court's existence were vetoed, and it was not until 1699 that the provincial assembly enacted laws creating courts that satisfied the Privy Council.
  3. ^ Lynde and Thomas were appointed to fill vacancies created by the death of John Whalley and the resignation of John Hathorne.
  4. ^ Quincy and Dudley were appointed to fill vacancies created by the deaths of Wait Winthrop and Nathaniel Thomas.
  5. ^ Ropes and Cushing were appointed to replace John Cushing and Benjamin Lynde Jr., both of whom resigned. Peter Oliver was named Chief Justice, replacing Lynde.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g There are no known portraits of this justice.
  7. ^ This seat was abolished in 1804.
  8. ^ There was a 14-year vacancy in between the two justices.
  9. ^ There was a 8-year vacancy in between the two justices.

References

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  1. ^ "Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court (1801 to present)". Massachusetts.gov. Retrieved April 29, 2025.
  2. ^ Becker, Deborah. "Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Ralph Gants Dies At 65". www.wbur.org. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
  3. ^ Marquard, Bryan. "SJC Chief Justice Ralph D. Gants has died - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved September 14, 2020.

Further reading

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