List of Florida Supreme Court Justices

This is a list of Justices of the Supreme Court of Florida, with their tenure of service on the Court.

Current Justices

Name	Appointed	Chief Justice	Term expiration	Mandatory retirement	Appointing Governor
Barbara J. Pariente	December 10, 1997	2004–2006	2019	2019	Lawton Chiles, Democrat
R. Fred Lewis	December 7, 1998	2006–2008	2019	2019	Lawton Chiles, Democrat
Peggy A. Quince	December 8, 1998	2008–2010	2019	2019	Lawton Chiles, Democrat/ Jeb Bush, Republican
Charles T. Canady	August 28, 2008	2010-2012	2017	2024	Charlie Crist, Republican
Ricky Polston	October 1, 2008	2012-2014	2017	2026	Charlie Crist, Republican
Jorge Labarga	January 2, 2009	2014 to present	2017	2023	Charlie Crist, Republican
James E.C. Perry	March 11, 2009	—	2017	2017	Charlie Crist, Republican

Former Justices

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Justices of the Supreme Court of Florida in the 1950s

Justices of the Supreme Court of Florida in 2014

Justice	Years served	Chief Justice	Reason for leaving
Thomas Douglas	1846–1850 & 1854–1855	Yes	Died in Office
Thomas Baltzell	1846–1850 & 1854–1860	Yes	Defeated
George S. Hawkins	1846–1850	No	—
George W. MacRae	1847	No	—
Joseph B. Lancaster	1848–1850	No	—
Walker Anderson	1851–1853	Yes	Resigned
Leslie A. Thompson	1851–1853	—	Defeated
Albert G. Semmes	1851–1853	—	—
Benjamin D. Wright	1853	—	Defeated
Charles H. DuPont	1854–1868	Yes	—
Bird M. Pearson	1856–1859	Yes	Did not run for reelection
William A. Forward	1860–1865	—	Did not run for reelection
David S. Walker	1860–1865	—	Resigned
Augustus Maxwell	1865–1866 & 1887–1891	Yes	1866 Resigned, 1890 Did not run for reelection
James McNair Baker	1865–1868	—	—
Samuel J. Douglas	1866–1868	—	—
Edwin M. Randall	1868–1885	Yes	Resigned
Ossian B. Hart	1868–1873	—	Elected Governor of Florida
James D. Westcott, Jr.	1868–1885	No	Resigned
Franklin D. Fraser	1873–1874	—	Resigned
Robert Van Valkenburgh	1875–1888	—	Died in Office
George G. McWhorter	1885–1887	—	Resigned
George P. Raney	1885–1894	—	Resigned
Henry L. Mitchell	1888–1891	—	Resigned
R. Fenwick Taylor	1891–1925	Yes	Retired
Milton H. Mabry	1891–1903	—	Did not run for reelection
Benjamin S. Liddon	1894–1896	—	Resigned
Francis B. Carter	1897–1905	—	Resigned
Thomas M. Shackleford	1902–1917	—	Resigned
Robert S. Cockrell	1902–1917	—	Defeated
Evelyn C. Maxwell	1902–1904	—	Resigned
William A. Hocker	1903–1915	—	Did not run for reelection
James B. Whitfield	1904–1943	—	Retired
Charles B. Parkhill	1905–1911	—	Resigned
William H. Ellis	1915–1938	—	Retired
Jefferson B. Browne	1917–1925	—	Resigned
Thomas F. West	1917–1925	—	Resigned
William Glenn Terrell	1923–1964	Yes	Died in Office
Armstead Brown	1925–1946	—	Retired
Louie W. Strum	1925–1931	—	Appointed to Federal District Court
Rivers H. Buford	1925–1948	—	Retired
Fred H. Davis	1931–1937	—	Died in Office
Roy H. Chapman	1937–1952	—	Died in Office
Elwyn Thomas	1938–1969	—	Retired
Alto Adams	1940–1951 & 1967–1968	—	1951 Resigned, 1968 Resigned
Harold L. "Tom" Sebring	1943–1955	Yes	Appointed Dean of Stetson College of Law
Paul D. Barns	1946–1949	—	Retired
T. Frank Hobson	1948–1962	—	Retired
B.K. Roberts	1949–1976	Yes	Retired
John E. Mathews	1951–1955	—	Died in Office
E. Harris Drew	1952–1971	—	Retired
B. Campbell Thornal	1955–1970	—	Died in Office
Stephen C. O'Connell	1955–1967	Yes	Appointed University of Florida President
Millard F. Caldwell	1962–1969	Yes	Mandatory retirement
Richard W. Ervin	1964–1975	—	Retired
Wade L. Hopping	1968–1969	No	Defeated
Vassar B. Carlton	1969–1974	—	Retired
James C. Adkins	1969–1987	Yes	Mandatory retirement
Joseph A. Boyd, Jr.	1969–1987	Yes	Mandatory retirement
David L. McCain	1970–1975	No	Resigned
Hal P. Dekle	1971–1975	No	Resigned
Ben F. Overton	1974–1999	Yes	Mandatory retirement
Arthur J. England, Jr.	1975–1981	Yes	Resigned
Alan C. Sundberg	1975–1982	Yes	Resigned
Joseph W. Hatchett	1975–1979	No	Appointed to U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals
Frederick B. Karl	1977–1978	No	Resigned
James E. Alderman	1978–1985	Yes	Resigned
Parker Lee McDonald	1979–1994	Yes	Retired
Raymond Ehrlich	1981–1991	Yes	Mandatory retirement
Leander J. Shaw, Jr.	1983–2003	Yes	Mandatory retirement
Rosemary Barkett	1985–1994	Yes	Appointed to U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals
Stephen H. Grimes	1987–1997	Yes	Mandatory retirement
Gerald Kogan	1987–1998	Yes	Retired
Major B. Harding	1991–2002	Yes	Retired
Harry Lee Anstead	1994–2009	Yes	Mandatory retirement
Charles T. Wells	1994–2009	Yes	Mandatory retirement
Raoul G. Cantero, III	2002–2008	No	Returned to private practice
Kenneth B. Bell	2003–2008	No	Returned to private practice

See also

• Judiciary of Florida
• Florida Constitution
• Government of Florida
• Supreme Court of Florida