List of justices of the Louisiana Supreme Court

(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

(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

(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

(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

Justice Edward Douglass White, who later became Chief Justice of the United States

• 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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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–present
• James T. Genovese 2017–present
• William J. Crain 2019–present
• Jay McCallum 2021–present
• Piper D. Griffin 2021–present