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List of justices of the Delaware Supreme Court

The following is a list of justices of the Delaware Supreme Court. From 1772 to 1950, Delaware did not have appointed Supreme Court justices. Instead, appeals from intermediate appellate determinations were taken to "The High Court of Errors and Appeals" – a panel made up of the state Chancellor, and all judges of the "Supreme Court" and of the Courts of Common Pleas who had not previously been involved with the case; under that system, the sole "Supreme Court" justice was the chief justice of Delaware.

In 1950, Delaware created a new state Supreme Court, with three judges appointed by the governor.

Colonial Supreme Court of the Lower Counties

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Chief justices

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Judge Began active
service		 Ended active
service		 Notes
William Clarke 1684 1707 Also a justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
Jasper Yeates 1707 1710 –
John Healey 1710 1714 –
Richard Birmingham 1714 1717 –
Jasper Yeates 1717 1720 –
John French 1726 1727 –
David Evans 1727 1741 –
Samuel Chew 1741 1743 –
William Till 1743 1745 –
Ryves Holt 1745 1764 –
John Vining 1764 1770 –
Richard McWilliam Jr. 1773 1777 –

Associate justices

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Judge Began active
service		 Ended active
service		 Notes
Arthur Cook 1690 1699 –
Berkeley Codd 1710 after 1723 –
Richard Birmingham 1713 1717 Chief Justice from 1714 to 1717
Jehu Curtis 1743 1753 –
Nicholas Ridgely 1746 1755 –

Chief justices of the High Court of Errors and Appeals (1777–1951)

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Judge Began active
service		 Ended active
service
William Killen 1777 1793
Richard Bassett 1793 1793
George Read 1793 1798
Kensey Johns 1799 1799
James Booth Sr. 1799 1828
Thomas Clayton 1828 1830
Samuel Maxwell Harrington 1830 1837
John M. Clayton 1837 1839
Richard H. Bayard 1839 1841
James Booth Jr. 1841 1855
Samuel Maxwell Harrington 1855 1857
Edward Gilpin 1857 1876
Joseph P. Comegys 1876 1893
Charles B. Lore 1893 1909
James Pennewill 1909 1933
Daniel J. Layton 1933 1945
Charles S. Richards 1945 1951

Justices of the Delaware Supreme Court (1951–present)

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Judge Began active
service		 Ended active
service		 Term as chief justice
Clarence A. Southerland 1951 1963 1951–1963
James M. Tunnell Jr. 1951 1954
Daniel F. Wolcott 1951 1973 1964–1973
Howard W. Bramhall 1954 1962
Charles L. Terry Jr. 1962 1964 1963–1964
James B. Carey 1963 1974
Daniel L. Herrmann 1965 1985 1973–1985
William Duffy 1973 1982
John J. McNeilly Jr. 1974 1986
Henry R. Horsey 1978 1994
William T. Quillen 1978 1983
Andrew G. T. Moore II 1982 1994
Andrew D. Christie 1983 1992 1985–1992
Randy J. Holland 1986 2017
Joseph T. Walsh 1985 2003
E. Norman Veasey 1992 2004 1992–2004
Carolyn Berger 1994 2014
Maurice A. Hartnett III 1994 2000
Myron T. Steele 2000 2014 2004–2014
Jack B. Jacobs 2003 2014
Henry du Pont Ridgely 2004 2015
Leo E. Strine Jr. 2014 2019 2014–2019
Karen L. Valihura 2014 present
James T. Vaughn Jr. 2014 2023
Collins J. Seitz Jr. 2015 present 2019–present
Gary Traynor 2017 present
Tamika Montgomery-Reeves 2019 2023
N. Christopher Griffiths 2023 present
Abigail LeGrow 2023 present

References

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