Past & Present Justices
Past & Present Justices
Below is a list of the California Supreme Court Justices, starting with the most recently appointed. All names with an asterisk (*) indicate that the justice once served as Chief Justice.
Kelli M. Evans | January 2023-Present |
Patricia Guerrero* | March 2022-Present |
Martin J. Jenkins | December 2020–Present |
Joshua Groban | January 2019–Present |
Leondra R. Kruger | January 2015–Present |
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar | January 2015–October 2021 |
Goodwin H. Liu | August 2011–Present |
Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye * | January 2011–December 2022 |
Carol A. Corrigan | January 2006–Present |
Carlos R. Moreno | October 2001–March 2011 |
Janice R. Brown | May 1996–June 2005 |
Ming W. Chin | March 1996–August 2020 |
Kathryn M. Werdegar | June 1994–August 2017 |
Ronald M. George* | September 1991–January 2011 |
Marvin R. Baxter | January 1991–January 2015 |
Armand Arabian | March 1990–February 1996 |
Joyce L. Kennard | April 1989–April 2014 |
Marcus M. Kaufman | March 1987–January 1990 |
David N. Eagleson | March 1987–January 1991 |
John A. Arguelles | March 1987–March 1989 |
Edward A. Panelli | December 1985–January 1994 |
Malcolm M. Lucas* | April 1984–April 1996 |
Joseph R. Grodin | December 1982–January 1987 |
Cruz Reynoso | February 1982–January 1987 |
Allen E. Broussard | July 1981–August 1991 |
Otto M. Kaus | July 1981–October 1985 |
Frank C. Newman | July 1977–December 1982 |
Rose Elizabeth Bird* | March 1977–January 1987 |
Wiley W. Manuel | March 1977–January 1981 |
Frank K. Richardson | December 1974–December 1983 |
William P. Clark, Jr. | March 1973–March 1981 |
Donald R. Wright* | April 1970–February 1977 |
Raymond L. Sullivan | December 1966–January 1977 |
Louis H. Burke | November 1964–November 1974 |
Stanley Mosk | September 1964–June 2001 |
Paul Peek | December 1962–December 1966 |
Mathew O. Tobriner | July 1962–January 1982 |
Maurice T. Dooling, Jr. | June 1960–June 1962 |
Thomas P. White | August 1959–October 1962 |
Raymond E. Peters | March 1959–January 1973 |
Marshall F. McComb | January 1956–May 1977 |
Homer R. Spence | January 1945–June 1960 |
B. Rey Schauer | December 1942–September 1964 |
Roger J. Traynor* | August 1940–February 1970 |
Phil S. Gibson* | September 1939–August 1964 |
Jesse W. Carter | September 1939–March 1959 |
Frederick W. Houser | September 1937–October 1942 |
Douglas L. Edmonds | November 1936–December 1955 |
Nathaniel P. Conrey | October 1935–November 1936 |
Ira F. Thompson | December 1932–August 1937 |
William H. Langdon | January 1927–August 1939 |
John W. Preston | December 1926–October 1935 |
Jeremiah F. Sullivan | November 1926–January 1927 |
Frank G. Finlayson | October 1926–December 1926 |
Jesse W. Curtis | January 1926–January 1945 |
John W. Shenk | April 1924–August 1959 |
John E. Richards | February 1924–June 1932 |
Louis W. Myers* | January 1923–January 1926 |
Emmet Seawell | January 1923–July 1939 |
Frank H. Kerrigan | January 1923–February 1924 |
Terry W. Ward | December 1922–January 1923 |
William H. Waste* | November 1921–June 1940 |
Charles A. Shurtleff | July 1921–December 1922 |
William A. Sloane | May 1920–December 1922 |
Warren Olney, Jr. | March 1919–July 1921 |
Thomas J. Lennon | January 1919–August 1926 |
Curtis D. Wilbur* | January 1918–March 1924 |
William P. Lawlor | January 1915–July 1926 |
Matt I. Sullivan* | August 1914–January 1915 |
Henry A. Melvin | September 1908–April 1920 |
M. C. Sloss | February 1906–February 1919 |
William G. Lorigan | January 1903–January 1919 |
Lucien Shaw* | January 1903–January 1923 |
Frank M. Angellotti* | January 1903–November 1921 |
Walter Van Dyke | January 1899–December 1905 |
Frederick W. Henshaw | January 1895–January 1918 |
W. C. Van Fleet | April 1894–January 1899 |
William F. Fitzgerald | January 1893–January 1895 |
Ralph C. Harrison | January 1891–January 1903 |
Charles H. Garoutte | January 1891–January 1903 |
John J. De Haven | January 1891–January 1895 |
Charles N. Fox | June 1889–January 1891 |
William H. Beatty* | January 1889–August 1914 |
John D. Works | October 1888–January 1891 |
Niles Searls* | April 1887–January 1889 |
Thomas B. McFarland | January 1887–September 1908 |
A. Van R. Paterson | January 1887–April 1894 |
James D. Thornton | January 1880–January 1891 |
Milton H. Myrick | January 1880–January 1887 |
Samuel Bell McKee | January 1880–December 1887 |
John R. Sharpstein | January 1880–December 1892 |
Erskine M. Ross | January 1880–October 1886 |
Robert F. Morrison* | November 1879–March 1887 |
E. W. McKinstry | January 1874–October 1888 |
Isaac S. Belcher | March 1872–January 1874 |
Addison C. Niles | January 1872–January 1880 |
Jackson Temple | January 1870–January 1872 |
William T. Wallace* | December 1869–November 1879 |
Joseph B. Crockett | December 1867–January 1880 |
Royal T. Sprague* | January 1868–February 1872 |
Oscar L. Shafter | January 1864–December 1867 |
Augustus L. Rhodes* | January 1864–January 1880 |
Lorenzo Sawyer* | January 1864–January 1870 |
John Currey* | January 1864–January 1868 |
Silas W. Sanderson* | January 1864–January 1870 |
E. B. Crocker | May 1863–January 1864 |
Edward Norton | November 1861–January 1864 |
W. W. Cope* | September 1859–January 1864 |
Joseph G. Baldwin | October 1858–January 1862 |
Stephen J. Field* | October 1857–May 1863 |
Peter H. Burnett | January 1857–October 1858 |
David S. Terry* | November 1855–September 1859 |
Charles H. Bryan | November 1854–November 1855 |
Alexander Wells | January 1853–October 1854 |
Alexander Anderson | April 1852–January 1853 |
Solomon Heydenfeldt | January 1852–January 1857 |
Hugh C. Murray* | October 1851–September 1857 |
Nathaniel Bennett | December 1849–October 1851 |
Henry A. Lyons* | December 1849–March 1852 |
Serranus Clinton Hastings* | January 1850–January 1852 |