List of Judges of the Supreme Court of Victoria

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This is a list of Judges who have served on the Supreme Court of Victoria. Term of service in brackets.

Chief Justices

Name	Term as Chief Justice
William à Beckett	19 January 1852 – 20 February 1857
William Stawell	25 February 1857 – 24 September 1886
George Higinbotham	24 September 1886 – 31 December 1892
John Madden	9 January 1893 – 10 March 1918
William Irvine	9 April 1918 – 30 September 1935
Frederick Mann	1 October 1935 – 31 January 1944
Edmund Herring	2 February 1944 – 1 September 1964
Henry Winneke	2 September 1964 – 31 May 1974
John McIntosh Young	1 June 1974 – 16 December 1991
John Harber Phillips	17 December 1991 – 17 October 2003
Marilyn Warren	26 November 2003-

Presidents of the Court of Appeal

Name	Term as President of the Court of Appeal
John Winneke	7 June 1995 – 15 July 2005
Chris Maxwell	18 July 2005-

Judges of the Court of Appeal

Name	Term as Justice of Appeal
Robert Brooking	7 June 1995 – 6 March 2002
Robert Tadgell	7 June 1995 – 30 May 2001
William Ormiston	7 June 1995- 24 February 2006
John Phillips	7 June 1995 – 22 May 2004
Kenneth Hayne	7 June 1995 – 21 September 1997
Stephen Charles	7 June 1995-
Frank Callaway	7 June 1995-
John Michael Batt	6 May 1997 – 3 June 2005
Susan Kenny	25 July 1997 – 15 October 1998
Peter Buchanan	28 October 1997-
Alex Chernov	13 October 1998-
Frank Vincent	12 June 2001-
Geoffrey Eames	15 March 2002-
Geoffrey Nettle	8 June 2004-
David John Ashley	21 June 2005-
Marcia Neave	27 February 2006 -
Robert Redlich	8 May 2006 -

Judges of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and Port Phillip District of New South Wales

• John Willis (8 February 1841 – 24 June 1843)
• William Jeffcott (1 July 1843 - December 1844)
• Richard Therry (9 January 1845 - February 1846)
• William à Beckett (28 February 1846 – 19 January 1852)

Judges (including Chief Justices and Justices of Appeal)

• William à Beckett (19 January 1852 – 20 February 1857)
• Redmond Barry (19 January 1852 – 23 November 1880)
• Edward Williams (21 July 1852 – 30 April 1874)
• Robert Molesworth (17 June 1856 – 6 May 1886)
• Thomas Howard Fellows (18 December 1872 – 8 April 1878)
• James Stephen (1 May 1874 – 14 August 1881)
• George Higinbotham (19 July 1880 – 23 September 1886)
• Hartley Williams (4 July 1881 – 9 June 1903)
• Edward Holroyd (19 August 1881 – 9 May 1906)
• George Kerferd (1 January 1886 - 31 December 1889
• George Webb (6 May 1886 - 20 September 1891)
• Thomas a'Beckett (30 September 1886 - 30 June 1917)
• Henry Hodges (12 February 1889 - 8 August 1919)
• Joseph Hood (1 February 1890 - 31 December 1921)
• Leo Cussen (19 March 1906 - 17 May 1933)
• William Schutt (24 July 1919 - 31 December 1926)
• Frederick Mann (24 July 1919 - 30 September 1935)
• William McArthur (27 January 1920 - 31 March 1934)
• James Macfarlan (30 January 1922 - 31 December 1949)
• Charles Lowe (28 January 1927 - 31 January 1964)
• Charles Gavan Duffy (1 June 1933 - 12 August 1961)
• Fred Martin (29 January 1934 - 31 January 1957)
• Norman O'Bryan (2 February 1939 - 16 October 1966)
• Wilfred Fullagar (1 August 1945 - 10 February 1950)
• John Vincent Barry (14 January 1947 - 8 November 1969)
• Arthur Dean (8 February 1949 - 24 May 1965)
• Reginald Sholl (1 February 1950 - 31 January 1966)
• Thomas Smith (1 February 1950 - 16 September 1973)
• Edward Hudson (27 September 1950 - 15 December 1966)
• Robert Monahan (3 March 1955 - 11 April 1970)
• George Pape (18 February 1957 - 28 January 1975)
• Alexander Adam (27 May 1959 - 30 August 1974)
• Douglas Little (3 February 1959 - 30 August 1974)
• Urban Gowans (22 August 1961 - 8 September 1976)
• Oliver Gillard (2 October 1962 - 13 May 1978)
• John Starke (31 January 1964 - 30 November 1985)
• Edward Barber (7 April 1964 - 25 February 1977)
• Murray McInerney (28 May 1965 - 10 February 1983)
• George Lush (1 February 1966 - 5 October 1983)
• Clifford Menhennitt (27 April 1966 - 28 October 1979)
• Hibbert Newton (10 January 1967 - 1 June 1977)
• Francis Nelson (1 February 1968 - 14 June 1977)
• Kevin Victor Anderson (29 April 1969 - 4 September 1984)
• William Crockett (2 December 1969 - 16 April 1996)
• Ninian Stephen (30 June 1970 - 29 February 1972)
• William Kaye (1 March 1972 - 8 February 1991)
• John Gerald Norris (1 March 1968 - 11 June 1975)
• Benjamin James Dunn (1 May 1968 - 31 July 1977)
• Peter Murphy (12 April 1973 - 15 April 1992)
• William Harris (9 October 1973 - 17 August 1978)
• John McIntosh Young (30 April 1974 - 31 May 1974)
• Basil Murray (5 September 1974 - 11 May 1988)
• Richard Fullagar (29 January 1975 - 11 February 1994)
• Kenneth Jenkinson (18 February 1975 - 1 November 1982)
• Richard De Burgh Griffith (10 June 1975 - 1 December 1976)
• Richard McGarvie (1 June 1976 - 22 April 1992)
• Norman O'Bryan (2 February 1977 - 6 May 1992)
• Robert Brooking (22 February 1977 - 6 March 2002)
• Kenneth Marks (15 June 1977 - 28 January 1994)
• Ian Gray (12 July 1977 - 30 March 1990)
• Alfred King (19 July 1977 - 13 February 1991)
• Barry Beach (18 July 1978 - 15 February 2003)
• James Gobbo (18 July 1978 - 28 February 1994)
• Alec Southwell (3 April 1979 - 11 April 1997)
• Robert Tadgell (4 March 1980 - 30 May 2001)
• Alastair Nicholson (16 November 1982 - 31 January 1988)
• George Hampel (16 March 1983 - 31 August 2000)
• William Ormiston (22 November 1983 - 24 February 2006)
• Howard Nathan (22 November 1983 - 17 April 1997)
• John Harber Phillips (7 November 1984 - 13 August 1990)
• Frank Vincent (30 April 1985 - )
• Bernard Teague (13 October 1987-)
• Philip Cummins (17 February 1988-)
• Allan McDonald (19 May 1988 – 31 August 2002)
• Thomas Smith (1 May 1990-)
• John David Phillips (22 May 1990 - 22 May 2004)
• David Ashley (21 August 1990 - )
• John Hedigan (30 January 1991 - 30 August 2001
• John Coldrey (19 February 1991-)
• David Byrne (20 August 1991-)
• David Harper (11 March 1992-)
• Kenneth Hayne (8 April 1992 – 21 September 1997)
• Geoffrey Eames (26 May 1992 - )
• John Batt (8 March 1994 – 3 June 2005)
• Hartley Hansen (6 April 1994-)
• Philip Mandie (10 May 1994-)
• John Winneke (7 June 1995 – 15 July 2005)
• Stephen Charles (7 June 1995 - 21 April 2006)
• Frank Callaway (7 June 1995 - )
• Rosemary Balmford (6 March 1996 – 14 September 2003)
• Eugene Gillard (6 May 1997)
• Alex Chernov (6 May 1997 - )
• Susan Kenny (25 July 1997 – 15 October 1998)
• Peter Buchanan (28 October 1997 -)
• Murray Kellam (28 January 1998-)
• Marilyn Warren (13 October 1998-)
• Bernard Bongiorno (18 December 2000-)
• David Habersberger (3 July 2001-)
• Geoffrey Flatman (18 July 2001 – 18 September 2002)
• Tony Pagone (3 October 2001 – 30 June 2002)
• Robert Osborn (9 May 2002-)
• Geoffrey Nettle (23 July 2002 – 7 June 2004)
• Julie Dodds-Streeton (23 July 2002 -)
• Robert Redlich (25 October 2002 - ])
• Katherine Williams (25 October 2002-)
• Stuart Morris (9 April 2003-)
• Stephen Kaye (16 December 2003-)
• Simon Whelan (17 March 2004-)
• Elizabeth Hollingworth (7 June 2004-)
• Kevin Bell (10 February 2005-)
• Kim Hargrave (18 March 2005-)
• Betty King (21 June 2005-)
• Anthony Cavanough (8 May 2006-)

Reserve Judges

• Peter Murphy (16 April 1992 – 5 May 1993)
• Richard Fullagar (12 February 1994 – 9 May 1994)
• Norman O'Bryan (7 May 1992 – 7 April 2004)
• Robert Brooking 14 May 2002 – 21 September 2003)
• Ian Gray (30 March 1990 – 5 March 2001)
• Alec Southwell (9 September 1997 – 31 October 2001)
• Howard Nathan (18 April 1997 – 1 September 2005)
• Rosemary Balmford (29 September 2003 – 31 May 2005)
• John Phillips (22 May 2004 – 28 February 2005)

 

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