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 2019–2025 Jay McCallum 2021–present Piper D. Griffin 2021–present John Guidry 2025–present Cade Cole 2025–present Billy Burris 2026–present

References Celebration of the Centenary of the Supreme Court of Louisiana by Henry Dart (1913) "Louisiana Supreme Court Justices." http://www.lasc.org/about_the_court/justices_bio.asp. Retrieved September 18, 2015.