Chief Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court from 1692 to the present¹

Name	Term
William Stoughton	1692 - 1701
Waitstill Winthrop	1701
Isaac Addington	1702 - 1703
Waitstill Winthrop	1708 - 1717
Samuel Sewall	1718 - 1728
Benjamin Lynde, Sr.	1729 - 1745
Paul Dudley	1745 - 1751
Stephen Sewall	1752 - 1760
Thomas Hutchinson	1761 - 1769
Benjamin Lynde, Jr.	1769 - 1771
Peter Oliver	1772 - 1775
John Adams	1775 - 1777
William Cushing	1777 - 1789
Nathaniel Peaslee Sargeant	1790 - 1791
Francis Dana	1792 - 1806
Theophilus Parsons	1806 - 1813
Samuel Sewall	1813 - 1814
Isaac Parker	1814 - 1830
Lemuel Shaw	1830 - 1860
George Tyler Bigelow	1860 - 1868
Reuben Atwater Chapman	1868 - 1873
Horace Gray	1873 - 1882
Marcus Morton	1882 - 1890
Waldridge Abner Field	1890 - 1899
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.	1899 - 1902
Marcus Perrin Knowlton	1902 - 1911
Arthur Prentice Rugg	1911 - 1938
Fred Tarbell Field	1938 - 1947
Stanley Elroy Qua	1947 - 1956
Raymond Sanger Wilkins	1956 - 1970
G. Joseph Tauro	1970 - 1976
Edward F. Hennessey	1976 - 1989
Paul J. Liacos	1989 - 1996
Herbert P. Wilkins	1996 - 1999
Margaret H. Marshall	1999 - 2010
Roderick L. Ireland	2010 -