List of justices of the Connecticut Supreme Court

This is a list of justices of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

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## Connecticut Supreme Court justices

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### Supreme Court of Errors (1784–1807)

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A total of 47 justices served on the Supreme Court of Errors.[1]

Judge | Began active
service | Ended active
service

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Andrew Adams | 1784 | 1790
Joseph Platt Cooke | 1784 | 1803
Oliver Ellsworth | 1784 | 1785
Jabez Hamlin | 1784 | 1785
Benjamin Huntington | 1784 | 1790
Samuel Huntington | 1784 | 1787
Richard Law | 1784 | 1789
Stephen Mix Mitchell | 1783 | 1793
William Pitkin IV | 1784 | 1785
Roger Sherman | 1784 | 1785
Joseph Spencer | 1784 | 1789
William Williams | 1784 | 1803
Oliver Wolcott | 1784 | 1797
William Hillhouse | 1785 | 1807
William Samuel Johnson | 1786 | 1789
Erastus Wolcott | 1786 | 1790
John Treadwell | 1786 | 1808
Jonathan Sturges | 1786 | 1789
James Wadsworth | 1787 | 1788
John Chester | 1788 | 1792
James Hillhouse | 1789 | 1793
Jedediah Strong | 1789 | 1791
Jesse Root | 1789 | 1790
James Davenport | 1790 | 1797
Roger Newberry | 1790 | 1807
Heman Swift | 1790 | 1802
John Chandler | 1790 | 1795
Benjamin Huntington | 1791 | 1793
Amasa Learned | 1791 | 1792
Jonathan Ingersoll | 1792 | 1798
Tapping Reeve | 1792 | 1792
Asher Miller | 1793 | 1794
Thomas Grosvenor | 1793 | 1802
Thomas Seymour | 1793 | 1803
Samuel Huntington | 1794 | 1796
Aaron Austin | 1794 | 1807
Jeremiah Wadsworth | 1795 | 1801
Jonathan Trumbull Jr. | 1796 | 1807
David Daggett | 1797 | 1805
Jonathan Brace | 1798 | 1799
Zephaniah Swift | 1799 | 1800
Nathaniel Smith | 1799 | 1804
John Allen | 1800 | 1806
Zephaniah Swift | 1801 | 1801
Oliver Ellsworth | 1802 | 1807
Jonathan Brace | 1802 | 1807
Chauncey Goodrich | 1802 | 1807
John Chester | 1803 | 1807
William Edmond | 1803 | 1807
Elizur Goodrich | 1803 | 1807
Matthew Griswold Jr. | 1805 | 1807
Stephen Hosmer | 1805 | 1807
Asher Miller | 1806 | 1807
Henry Champion | 1806 | 1807

### Connecticut Supreme Court (after 1807)

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Judge | Began active
service | Ended active
service

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Tapping Reeve | 1808 | 1815
Zephaniah Swift | 1808 | 1819
John Trumbull | 1808 | 1819
William Edmond | 1808 | 1819
Nathaniel Smith | 1808 | 1819
Jeremiah Gates Brainard | 1808 | 1829
Simeon Baldwin | 1808 | 1817
Roger Griswold | 1808 | 1809
John Cotton Smith | 1809 | 1811
Jonathan Ingersoll | 1811 | 1816
Calvin Goddard | 1815 | 1818
Stephen Hosmer | 1815 | 1833
James Gould | 1816 | 1819
John Thompson Peters | 1818 | 1834
Asa Chapman | 1818 | 1825
William Bristol | 1819 | 1826
James Lanman | 1826 | 1829
David Daggett | 1826 | 1834
Thomas Scott Williams | 1829 | 1847
Clark Bissell | 1829 | 1839
Samuel Church | 1833 | 1854
Jabez W. Huntington | 1834 | 1840
Henry Matson Waite | 1834 | 1857
Roger Minott Sherman | 1839 | 1842
William L. Storrs | 1840 | 1861
Joel Hinman | 1842 | 1870
William W. Ellsworth | 1847 | 1861
David C. Sanford | 1854 | 1864
John Duane Park | 1864 | 1889
Thomas B. Butler | 1861 | 1873
Charles J. McCurdy | 1863 | 1867
Henry Dutton | 1861 | 1866
Elisha Carpenter | 1866 | 1894
James Phelps | 1873 | 1875
Dwight Whitefield Pardee | 1873 | 1890
Dwight Loomis | 1875 | 1891
Miles T. Granger | 1876 | 1887
LaFayette S. Foster | 1870 | 1876
Origen S. Seymour | 1870 | 1874
Sidney Burr Beardsley | 1887 | 1889
Charles B. Andrews | 1889 | 1901
David Torrance | 1890 | 1906
Augustus H. Fenn | 1893 | 1897
Edward W. Seymour | 1889 | 1892
Frederick B. Hall | 1897 | 1913
Samuel O. Prentice | 1901 | 1920
John M. Thayer | 1907 | 1917
Silas A. Robinson | 1910 | 1910 (seven months)
Simeon E. Baldwin | 1893 | 1910
William Hamersley | 1894 | 1908
Milton A. Shumway | 1917 | 1918
Alberto T. Roraback | 1908 | 1919
George W. Wheeler | 1910 | 1930
John K. Beach | 1913 | 1925
Edward B. Gager | 1918 | 1922
William S. Case | 1919 | 1921
Howard J. Curtis | 1920 | 1927
Lucien F. Burpee | 1921 | 1924
John E. Keeler | 1922 | 1926
John P. Kellogg | 1924 | 1925
William M. Maltbie | 1925 | 1950
Frank D. Haines | 1925 | 1936
George E. Hinman | 1926 | 1940
John W. Banks | 1927 | 1937
Christopher L. Avery | 1930 | 1942
Allyn L. Brown | 1936 | 1953
Newell Jennings | 1937 | 1953
Arthur F. Ells | 1940 | 1949
Edwin C. Dickenson | 1942 | 1950
Raymond E. Baldwin | 1949 | 1963
Ernest A. Inglis | 1950 | 1957
Patrick B. O'Sullivan | 1950 | 1957
John A. Cornell | 1953 | 1953 (four months)
Edward J. Quinlan | 1953 | 1954
Kenneth Wynne | 1953 | 1958
Edward J. Daly | 1954 | 1959
John Hamilton King | 1957 | 1970
James E. Murphy | 1957 | 1966
Samuel Mellitz | 1958 | 1961
William J. Shea | 1959 | 1965
Abraham S. Bordon | 1961 | 1961 (five months)
Howard W. Alcorn | 1961 | 1971
John M. Comley | 1963 | 1965
James C. Shannon | 1965 | 1966
Charles S. House | 1965 | 1978
John P. Cotter | 1965 | 1981
John R. Thim | 1966 | 1972
Elmer W. Ryan | 1966 | 1972
Louis Shapiro | 1970 | 1975
Alva Loiselle | 1971 | 1980
Herbert S. MacDonald | 1972 | 1977
Joseph Bogdanski | 1972 | 1981
Joseph S. Longo | 1975 | 1979
William P. Barber | 1975 | 1977
John A. Speziale | 1977 | 1984
Ellen Ash Peters | 1978 | 2000
Arthur H. Healey | 1979 | 1990
Leo Parskey | 1980 | 1985
Anthony J. Armentano | 1981 | 1983
David M. Shea | 1981 | 1992
Anthony E. Grillo | 1983 | 1985
Joseph F. Dannehy | 1984 | 1987
Angelo G. Santaniello | 1985 | 1987
Robert J. Callahan | 1985 | 2000
Robert D. Glass | 1987 | 1992
Alfred V. Covello | 1987 | 1992
T. Clark Hull | 1987 | 1991
David M. Borden | 1990 | 2007
Robert I. Berdon | 1991 | 1999
Flemming L. Norcott Jr. | 1992 | 2013
Joette Katz | 1992 | 2011
Richard N. Palmer | 1993 | 2020
Francis M. McDonald  | 1996 | 2001
William J. Sullivan | 1999 | 2009
Christine S. Vertefeuille | 2000 | 2010
Peter T. Zarella | 2001 | 2016
Chase T. Rogers | 2007 | 2018
Barry R. Schaller | 2007 | 2008
C. Ian McLachlan | 2009 | 2012
Dennis G. Eveleigh | 2010 | 2017
Lubbie Harper Jr. | 2011 | 2012
Carmen E. Espinosa | 2013 | 2017
Richard A. Robinson | 2013 | Incumbent
Andrew J. McDonald | 2013 | Incumbent
Gregory D'Auria | 2017 | Incumbent
Raheem L. Mullins | 2017 | Incumbent
Maria Araújo Kahn | 2017 | 2023
Steven D. Ecker | 2018 | Incumbent
Christine Keller | 2020 | 2022
Joan K. Alexander | 2022 | Incumbent
Nora Dannehy | 2023 | Incumbent

## References

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1. ^ Day, Thomas (1809). Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Errors, of the State of Connecticut, in the years 1805, 1806, and 1807. Vol. 2.

## External links

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* "Justices of the Connecticut Supreme Court". Connecticut Supreme Court Historical Society. Retrieved 16 April 2011.

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