Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court1

Year Chief Justice            
1801 Francis Dana Simeon Strong Thomas Dawes Samuel Sewall George Thatcher    
  1791-1806 1801-1805 1792-1802 1800-1814 1801-1824    
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  | | Theodore Sedgwick | |    
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1806 | Isaac Parker | | |    
  Theophilus Parsons | | | |    
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  | | Charles Jackson | |    
1814 Samuel Sewall Samuel Putnam | | |    
  Isaac Parker | | Daniel Dewey |    
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  | | | Samuel Wilde |    
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  | | - | Levi Lincoln    
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  | | - | Marcus Morton    
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  | | Charles Dewey | |    
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  | Samuel Hubbard | |      
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1848 | Charles Forbes | | Theron Metcalf    
  | Richard Fletcher | | |    
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  | | | George Bigelow |    
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1852 | | | | | Caleb Cushing4  
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  | Benjamin Thomas | | | Pliny Merrick  
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  | Ebenezer Hoar | | | |  
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  George Bigelow | | Reuben Chapman | |  
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  | | | | James Colt |  
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  | | John Wells James Colt Dwight Foster |  
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1868 Reuben Chapman | | | | |  
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  | Marcus Morton | | Seth Ames |  
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1873 | | | | | | William Endicott5
  Horace Grey | | | | Charles Devens |
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  | | Otis Lord | | | |
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1881 | | | | | Charles Devens |
  | | | William Allen Waldridge Field | |
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  Marcus Morton Charles Allen Oliver W. Holmes | | | Waldo Colburn
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1890 | | | | James Morton | |
  Waldridge Field | | | | | |
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  | | | James Barker | John Lathrop |
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  | John Hammond | | | | |
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  Oliver W. Holmes | William Loring | | | |
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  Marcus Knowlton | | | | | Henry Braley
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  | | | Henry Sheldon | | |
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  Arthur Rugg | | | | Charles Decourcy |
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  | | | | John Crosby | |
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  | Edward Pierce | | | | |
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  | | | James Carroll | | |
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  | | Charles Jenney | | | |
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  | | William Wait | | | |
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  | | | | | George Sanderson |
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  | | | | | | Fred T. Field
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  | | | Charles Donahue | Henry Lummus |
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  | Louis Cox | | Arthur Dolan | |
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  Fred T. Field | | | | | James Ronan
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  | Raymond Wilkins | John Spalding | | |
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1947 Stanley Qua | | | | | |
  | | Harold Williams | | | |
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  | | | | Edward Counihan | |
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  | | | | | Arthur Whittemore |
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  Raymond Wilkins R. Ammi Cutter | | | | |
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1960 | | | | Jacob Spiegel | Paul Kirk
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  | | Paul Reardon | | | |
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1969 | | | | | | |
  | | | | | Francis Quirico |
1970 | | | | | | |
  G. Joseph Tauro | | | | | |
1971 | | | | | | Robert Braucher
  | | | Edward F. Hennessey | | |
1972 | | | | Herbert Wilkins | |
  | Benjamin Kaplan | | | | |
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  Edward F. Hennessey | | Paul J. Liacos | | |
1977 | | | | | | |
  | | Ruth Abrams | | | |
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  | Neil L. Lynch | | | Joseph Nolan Francis O'Connor
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1989 | | | | | | |
  Paul J. Liacos | | John M. Greaney | | |
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1995 | | | | | | |
  | | | | | Charles Fried |
1996 | | | | | | |
  Herbert P. Wilkins | | | Margaret Marshall | |
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  | | | | | | Roderick L. Ireland
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1999 | | | | | | |
  Margaret H. Marshall | | | Francis X. Spina Judith A. Cowin |
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  | Martha B. Sosman6 | | | | |
2001 | | Robert J. Cordy | | | |
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  | Margot Botsford | | | | |
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2009 | | | Ralph D. Gants | | |
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1 This chart lists all the Chief Justices and Associate Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court since 1801. Using the vertical columns the reader may determine the order of succession for each seat on the bench.
2 A vertical line within a box indicates that the Justice listed above has continued to sit in that seat.
3 A horizontal line within a box indicates that a seat is vacant. From 1824 (upon the resignation of Charles Jackson) until 1837 (upon the appointment of Charles Dewey) this line of succession was vacant.
4 Upon the appointment of Justice Caleb Cushing to the Supreme Judicial Court in 1852, the court now had six Justices.
5 Upon the appointment of Justice William Endicott to the Supreme Judicial Court in 1873, the court now had seven Justices.
6 On March 10, 2007, Justice Martha B. Sosman died. Justice Sosman had held the office of Associate Justice of this court since September 6, 2000.