Chronological index of Texas Supreme Court Justices 1836-1986
1836-1866 1867-1897 1898-1928 1929-1959 1960-1985
1836-1866
1836-1838,
James Collinsworth (Collingsworth),
Chief Justice
1836-1839,
Shelby Corzine,
Associate Justice
1836-1839,
Benjamin Cromwell Franklin,
Associate Justice
1836-1839,
Robert McAlpin Williamson,
Associate Justice
1836-1840,
James W. Robinson,
Associate Justice
1838,
John Birdsall,
Chief Justice
1838-1839,
Henry Whiting Fontaine,
Associate Justice
1838-1840,
Edward Thomas Branch,
Associate Justice
1838-1840,
Thomas Jefferson Rusk,
Chief Justice
1839,
Ezekiel Wimberly Cullen,
Associate Justice
1839,
John Scott,
Associate Justice
1839-1845,
John T. Mills,
Associate Justice
1840,
John Hemphill,
Associate Justice
1840,
Thomas Johnson,
Associate Justice
1840-1841,
Anthony B. Shelby,
Associate Justice
1840-1841,
Richardson A. Scurry,
Associate Justice
1840-1842,
George Whitfield Terrell,
Associate Justice
1840-1842,
John M. Hansford,
Associate Justice
1840-1845,
William Jefferson Jones,
Associate Justice
1841-1843,
Anderson Hutchinson,
Associate Justice
1841-1844,
Patrick Churchill Jack,
Associate Justice
1841-1844,
Richard Morris,
Associate Justice
1841-1845,
John Hemphill,
Chief Justice
1841-1846,
Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor,
Associate Justice
1842-1845,
William Beck Ochiltree,
Associate Justice
1843-1846,
William Early Jones,
Associate Justice
1844-1845,
Royall Tyler Wheeler,
Justice
1845-1846,
Milford Phillips Norton,
Associate Justice
1845-1846,
John Baker Jones,
Associate Justice
1845-1858,
John Hemphill,
Chief Justice
1846-1856,
Abner Smith Lipscomb,
Associate Justice
1846-1858,
Royall Tyler Wheeler,
Associate Justice
1857-1862,
Oran Milo Roberts,
Associate Justice
1858-1864,
Royall Tyler Wheeler,
Chief Justice
1858-1864,
James Hall Bell,
Associate Justice
1862-1866,
George Fleming Moore,
Associate Justice
1864-1866,
Oran Milo Roberts,
Chief Justice
1864-1866,
Reuben A. Reeves,
Associate Justice
1866-1867,
George Washington Smith,
Associate Justice
1866-1867,
Richard Coke,
Associate Justice
1866-1867,
Stockton P. Donley,
Associate Justice
1866-1867,
Asa Hoxei Willie,
Associate Justice
1867-1897
1867-1869,
Albert Hamilton Latimer,
Associate Justice
1867-1869,
Colbert Coldwell (Caldwell),
Associate Justice
1867-1869,
Andrew Jackson Hamilton,
Associate Justice
1867-1870,
Livingston Lindsay,
Associate Justice
1867-1870,
Amos Morrill,
Chief Justice
1869-1874,
Moses B. Walker,
Associate Justice
1870,
Chauncey Brewer Sabin,
Associate Justice
1870,
James H. Denison,
Associate Justice
1870-1873,
Wesley B. Ogden,
Associate Justice
1870-1873,
Lemuel Dale Evans,
Chief Justice
1873-1874,
John David McAdoo,
Associate Justice
1873-1874,
Wesley B. Ogden,
Chief Justice
1874,
Peter W. Gray,
Associate Justice
1874,
William Pitt Ballinger,
Associate Justice
1874-1875,
Thomas Jefferson Devine,
Associate Justice
1874-1876,
Reuben A. Reeves,
Chief Justice
1874-1881,
Robert Simonton Gould,
Associate Justice
1875,
John Ireland,
Associate Justice
1878,
Micajah Hubbard Bonner,
Associate Justice
1878-1882,
Micajah Hubbard Bonner,
Chief Justice
1881-1882,
Robert Simonton Gould,
Chief Justice
1881-1888,
John William Stayton,
Associate Justice
1882-1885,
Charles Shannon West,
Associate Justice
1882-1888,
Asa Hoxei Willie,
Chief Justice
1885-1886,
Sawnie Robertson,
Associate Justice
1886-1894,
Reuben Reid Gaines,
Associate Justice
1888-1889,
Alexander Stuart Walker,
Associate Justice
1888-1894,
John William Stayton,
Chief Justice
1889-1893,
John Lane Henry,
Associate Justice
1893-1911,
Thomas Jefferson Brown,
Associate Justice
1894-1899,
Leroy Gilbert Denman,
Associate Justice
1894-1911,
Reuben Reid Gaines,
Chief Justice
1898-1928
1899-1911,
Frank Alvan Williams,
Associate Justice
1911-1912,
William Franklin Ramsey,
Associate Justice
1911-1913,
Joseph Burton Dibrell,
Associate Justice
1911-1915,
Thomas Jefferson Brown,
Chief Justice
1912-1915,
Nelson Phillips,
Associate Justice
1913-1921,
William E. Hawkins,
Associate Justice
1915-1918,
James E. Yantis,
Associate Justice
1915-1921,
Nelson Phillips,
Chief Justice
1918-1934,
Thomas Benton Greenwood,
Associate Justice
1921-1940,
Calvin Maples Cureton,
Chief Justice
1923-1935,
William Pierson,
Associate Justice
1925,
Hattie Leah Henenberg,
Special Associate Justice
1925,
Hortense Sparks Ward,
Special Chief Justice
1925,
Ruth Virginia Brazzil,
Special Associate Justice
1929-1959
1934-1952,
John Henry Sharp,
Associate Justice
1935-1944,
Richard Critz,
Associate Justice
1940-1941,
William Folsom Moore,
Chief Justice
1941-1948,
James Patterson Alexander,
Chief Justice
1945-1947,
Charles Stewart Slatton,
Associate Justice
1945-1948,
John Edward Hickman,
Associate Justice
1945-1949,
Alfred Jennings Folley,
Associate Justice
1945-1949,
Gordon Simpson,
Associate Justice
1945-1950,
William McLaughlin Taylor, Sr.,
Associate Justice
1945-1954,
Graham Best Smedley,
Associate Justice
1945-1957,
Few Brewster,
Associate Justice
1947-1950,
James Pinckney Hart,
Associate Justice
1948-1958,
Wilmer St. John. Garwood,
Associate Justice
1948-1961,
John Edward Hickman,
Chief Justice
1949-1950,
Ralph Hicks Harvey,
Associate Justice
1949-1968,
Meade Felix Griffin,
Associate Justice
1950-1961,
Robert Wilburn Calvert,
Associate Justice
1950-1970,
Clyde Earl Smith, Sr.,
Associate Justice
1951-1956,
Will Reid Wilson, Sr.,
Associate Justice
1953-1964,
Frank Pugh Culver, Jr.,
Associate Justice
1954-1975,
Ruel Carlile Walker,
Associate Justice
1956,
Abner Vernon McCall,
Associate Justice
1957-1968,
James Rankin Norvell,
Associate Justice
1957-1971,
Joe Robert Greenhill,
Associate Justice
1959-1970,
Robert William ("Bob") Hamilton,
Associate Justice
1960-1985
1961-1972,
Robert Wilburn Calvert,
Chief Justice
1961-1980,
Zollie Coffer Steakley, Jr.,
Associate Justice
1964-1982,
Andrew Jackson ("Jack") Pope, Jr.,
Associate Justice
1968-1977,
Thomas Morrow Reavley,
Associate Justice
1969-1986,
William Sears McGee,
Associate Justice
1971-1978,
Marion Price Daniel, Sr.,
Associate Justice
1971-1982,
James Gray Denton,
Associate Justice
1972,
Thomas Hawthorne ("Phil") Phillips,
Associate Justice
1972-1982,
Joe Robert Greenhill,
Chief Justice
1973-1979,
Samuel D. Johnson, Jr.,
Associate Justice
1975-1976,
Ross E. Doughty, Jr.,
Associate Justice
1977,
Donald Burt Yarbrough,
Associate Justice
1977-1978,
Terrell Claude Chadick,
Associate Justice
1977-1984,
Charles W. Barrow,
Associate Justice
1978-1988,
Robert Maurice Campbell,
Associate Justice
1979-1980,
William Lockhart Garwood,
Associate Justice
1979-1990,
Franklin Scott Spears,
Associate Justice
1980-1990,
Cread L. Ray, Jr.,
Associate Justice
1981-1988,
James Price Wallace,
Associate Justice
1982,
Ruby Kless Sondock,
Associate Justice
1982-1985,
Andrew Jackson ("Jack") Pope, Jr.,
Chief Justice
1982-1989,
Ted Z. Robertson,
Associate Justice
1983-1988,
William Wayne Kilgarlin,
Associate Justice
1984-1998,
Raul A. Gonzalez, Jr.,
Associate Justice
1985-1988,
John L. Hill, Jr.,
Chief Justice