Chief Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court from 1692 to the present 1

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 -


1 This table was compiled by Robert Bloom, Esq.