List of Judges of the Supreme Court of Victoria

This is a list of Judges who have served on the Supreme Court of Victoria. Term of service in brackets.

Chief Justices

Name	Term as Chief Justice
William à Beckett	19 January 1852 – 20 February 1857
William Stawell	25 February 1857 – 24 September 1886
George Higinbotham	24 September 1886 – 31 December 1892
John Madden	9 January 1893 – 10 March 1918
William Irvine	9 April 1918 – 30 September 1935
Frederick Mann	1 October 1935 – 31 January 1944
Edmund Herring	2 February 1944 – 1 September 1964
Henry Winneke	2 September 1964 – 31 May 1974
John McIntosh Young	1 June 1974 – 16 December 1991
John Harber Phillips	17 December 1991 – 17 October 2003
Marilyn Warren	26 November 2003 - present

Presidents of the Court of Appeal

Name	Term as President of the Court of Appeal
John Winneke	7 June 1995 – 15 July 2005
Chris Maxwell	18 July 2005 - present

Judges of the Court of Appeal

Name	Term as Justice of Appeal
Robert Brooking	7 June 1995 – 6 March 2002
Robert Tadgell	7 June 1995 – 30 May 2001
William Ormiston	7 June 1995 – 24 February 2006
John Phillips	7 June 1995 – 22 May 2004
Kenneth Hayne	7 June 1995 – 21 September 1997
Stephen Charles	7 June 1995 – 21 April 2006
Frank Callaway	7 June 1995 – 27 July 2007
John Batt	6 May 1997 – 3 June 2005
Susan Kenny	25 July 1997 – 15 October 1998
Peter Buchanan	28 October 1997 - 11 October 2013
Alex Chernov	13 October 1998 – 29 February 2008
Frank Vincent	12 June 2001 – 20 August 2009
Geoffrey Eames	15 March 2002 – 27 July 2007
Geoffrey Nettle	7 June 2004 - present
David Ashley	21 June 2005 – 1 February 2012)
Marcia Neave	22 February 2006 - present
Robert Redlich	8 May 2006 - present
Murray Kellam	16 May 2007 - present
Julie Dodds-Streeton	8 August 2007 – 1 February 2010
Mark Weinberg	28 July 2008 - present
Philip Mandie	17 August 2009 – 31 August 2012
Bernard Bongiorno	17 August 2009 - present
David Harper	4 November 2009 - 28 June 2013
Hartley Hansen	19 July 2010 – 31 August 2012
Pamela Tate	16 September 2010 - present
Robert Osborn	7 February 2012 - present
Simon Whelan	16 October 2012 - present
Phillip Priest	23 October 2012 - present
Paul Coghlan	1 January 2013 - 11 January 2014
Joseph Santamaria	20 August 2013 - present
David Beach	22 October 2013 - present
Emilios Kyrou	29 July 2014 - present
Anne Ferguson	12 August 2014 - present

Judges of the Supreme Court of New South Wales for the District of Port Phillip

See also: Supreme Court of New South Wales for the District of Port Phillip

Prior to the separation of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales into the independent colony of Victoria, the Supreme Court of New South Wales was the superior court in the District. A local division of that court, the Supreme Court of New South Wales for the District of Port Phillip, was established in 1840 and existed until the Supreme Court of Victoria was created in 1852.

Name	Term as Judge
John Willis	8 February 1841 – 24 June 1843
William Jeffcott	1 July 1843 - December 1844
Roger Therry	9 January 1845 - February 1846
William à Beckett	28 February 1846 – 19 January 1852

Judges (including Chief Justices, Presidents and Justices of Appeal)

Name	Term as Judge
William à Beckett	19 January 1852 – 20 February 1857
Redmond Barry	19 January 1852 – 23 November 1880
Edward Williams	21 July 1852 – 30 April 1874
Robert Molesworth	17 June 1856 – 6 May 1886
Thomas Fellows	18 December 1872 – 8 April 1878
James Stephen	1 May 1874 – 14 August 1881
George Higinbotham	19 July 1880 – 23 September 1886
Hartley Williams	4 July 1881 – 9 June 1903
Edward Dundas Holroyd	19 August 1881 – 9 May 1906
Thomas Cope (acting)	August 1885 – June 1886
George Kerferd	1 January 1886 – 31 December 1889
George Webb	6 May 1886 – 20 September 1891
Thomas à Beckett	30 September 1886 – 30 June 1917
Henry Hodges	12 February 1889 – 8 August 1919
Joseph Hood	1 February 1890 – 31 December 1921
Leo Cussen	19 March 1906 – 17 May 1933
William Schutt	24 July 1919 – 31 December 1926
Frederick Mann	24 July 1919 – 30 September 1935
William McArthur	27 January 1920 – 31 March 1934
James Macfarlan	30 January 1922 – 31 December 1949
Charles Lowe	28 January 1927 – 31 January 1964
Charles Duffy	1 June 1933 – 12 August 1961
Fred Martin	29 January 1934 – 31 January 1957
Norman O'Bryan	2 February 1939 – 16 October 1966
Wilfred Fullagar	1 August 1945 – 8 February 1950
John Vincent Barry	14 January 1947 – 8 November 1969
Arthur Dean	8 February 1949 – 24 May 1965
Reginald Sholl	1 February 1950 – 31 January 1966
Thomas Smith	1 February 1950 – 16 September 1973
Edward Hudson	27 September 1950 – 15 December 1966
Robert Monahan	3 March 1955 – 11 April 1970
George Pape	18 February 1957 – 28 January 1975
Alexander Adam	27 May 1959 – 30 August 1974
Douglas Little	3 February 1959 – 30 August 1974
Urban Gowans	22 August 1961 – 8 September 1976
Oliver Gillard	2 October 1962 – 13 May 1978
John Starke	31 January 1964 – 30 November 1985
Edward Barber	7 April 1964 – 25 February 1977
Murray McInerney	28 May 1965 – 10 February 1983
George Lush	1 February 1966 – 5 October 1983
Clifford Menhennitt	27 April 1966 – 29 October 1979
Hibbert Newton	10 January 1967 – 1 June 1977
Francis Nelson	1 February 1968 – 14 June 1977
Kevin Anderson	29 April 1969 – 4 September 1984
William Crockett	2 December 1969 – 16 April 1996
Ninian Stephen	30 June 1970 – 29 February 1972
William Kaye	1 March 1972 – 8 February 1991
John Norris	1 March 1968 – 11 June 1975
Benjamin Dunn	1 May 1968 – 31 July 1977
Peter Murphy	12 April 1973 – 15 April 1992
William Harris	9 October 1973 – 17 August 1978
John Young	30 April 1974 – 31 May 1974
Basil Murray	5 September 1974 – 11 May 1988
Richard Fullagar	29 January 1975 – 11 February 1994
Kenneth Jenkinson	18 February 1975 – 1 November 1982
Richard Griffith	10 June 1975 – 1 December 1976
Richard McGarvie	1 June 1976 – 22 April 1992
Norman O'Bryan	2 February 1977 – 6 May 1992
Robert Brooking	22 February 1977 – 6 March 2002
Kenneth Marks	15 June 1977 – 28 January 1994
Ian Grey	12 July 1977 – 30 March 1990
Alfred King	19 July 1977 – 13 February 1991
Barry Beach	18 July 1978 – 15 February 2003
James Gobbo	18 July 1978 – 28 February 1994
Alec Southwell	3 April 1979 – 11 April 1997
Robert Tadgell	4 March 1980 – 30 May 2001
Alastair Nicholson	16 November 1982 – 31 January 1988
George Hampel	16 March 1983 – 31 August 2000
William Ormiston	22 November 1983 – 24 February 2006
Howard Nathan	22 November 1983 – 17 April 1997
John Harber Phillips	7 November 1984 – 13 August 1990
Frank Vincent	30 April 1985 – 20 August 2009
Bernard Teague	13 October 1987 – 15 February 2008
Philip Cummins	17 February 1988 - 2010
Allan McDonald	19 May 1988 – 31 August 2002
Thomas Smith	1 May 1990 – 31 July 2009
John Phillips	22 May 1990 – 22 May 2004
David Ashley	21 August 1990 - 1 June 2012
John Hedigan	30 January 1991 – 30 August 2001
John Coldrey	19 February 1991 – 4 April 2008
David Byrne	20 August 1991 - 20 May 2010
David Harper	11 March 1992 - 28 June 2013
Kenneth Hayne	8 April 1992 – 21 September 1997
Geoffrey Eames	26 May 1992 – 27 July 2007
John Batt	8 March 1994 – 3 June 2005
Hartley Hansen	6 April 1994 - 31 July 2012
Philip Mandie	10 May 1994 - 31 August 2012
John Winneke	7 June 1995 – 15 July 2005
Stephen Charles	7 June 1995 – 21 April 2006
Frank Callaway	7 June 1995 – 10 June 2007
Rosemary Balmford	6 March 1996 – 14 September 2003
Bill Gillard	6 May 1997 – 31 October 2007
Alex Chernov	6 May 1997 – 29 February 2008
Susan Kenny	25 July 1997 – 15 October 1998
Peter Buchanan	28 October 1997 - 11 October 2013
Murray Kellam	28 January 1998 - 15 June 2009
Marilyn Warren	13 October 1998 - present
Bernard Bongiorno	18 December 2000 - 31 December 2012
David Habersberger	3 July 2001 - 28 March 2013
Geoffrey Flatman	18 July 2001 – 18 September 2002
Tony Pagone	3 October 2001 – 30 June 2002 16 May 2007 - 20 June 2013
Robert Osborn	9 May 2002 - present
Geoffrey Nettle	23 July 2002 – present
Julie Dodds-Streeton	23 July 2002 - present
Robert Redlich	25 October 2002 - present
Katharine Williams	25 October 2002 - present
Stuart Morris	9 April 2003 – 9 April 2007
Stephen Kaye	16 December 2003 - present
Simon Whelan	17 March 2004 - present
Elizabeth Hollingworth	7 June 2004 - present
Kevin Bell	10 February 2005 - present
Kim Hargrave	18 March 2005 - present
Betty King	21 June 2005 - present
Chris Maxwell	18 July 2005 - present
Anthony Cavanough	8 May 2006 - present
Elizabeth Curtain	3 October 2006 - 8 May 2014
Paul Coghlan	8 August 2007 - 31 December 2012
Ross Robson	8 August 2007 - present
Jack Forrest	8 August 2007 - present
Lex Lasry	23 October 2007 - present
James Judd	6 March 2008 - present
Peter Vickery	6 May 2008 - present
Emilios Kyrou	15 May 2008 - present
David Beach	5 September 2008 - present
Jennifer Davies	6 April 2009 - 4 July 2013
Terry Forrest	13 October 2009 - present
Karin Emerton	16 October 2009 - present
Iain Ross	9 November 2009 – 1 March 2012
Clyde Croft	9 November 2009 - present
Anne Ferguson	3 May 2010 - present
Michael Sifris	13 July 2010 - present
Peter Almond	28 July 2010 - present
John Dixon	13 September 2010 - present
Cameron Macaulay	13 September 2010 - present
Kate McMillan	8 March 2012 - present
Gregory Garde	29 May 2012 - present
John Digby	19 November 2012 - present
James Elliott	25 March 2013 - present
Tim Ginnane	4 June 2013 - present
Melanie Sloss	30 July 2013 - present
Michael Croucher	30 July 2013 - present
Jack Rush	26 November 2013 - present
Joanne Cameron	12 August 2014 - present
Christopher Beale	2 September 2014 - present
Michael McDonald	16 September 2014 - present

Reserve Judges

Name	Term as Reserve Judge
Peter Murphy	16 April 1992 – 5 May 1993
Richard Fullagar	12 February 1994 – 9 May 1994
Norman O'Bryan	7 May 1992 – 7 April 2004
Robert Brooking	14 May 2002 – 21 September 2003
Ian Gray	30 March 1990 – 5 March 2001
Alec Southwell	9 September 1997 – 31 October 2001
Howard Nathan	18 April 1997 – 1 September 2005
Rosemary Balmford	29 September 2003 – 31 May 2005
John Phillips	22 May 2004 – 28 February 2005

See also

• Judiciary of Australia
• Victorian Bar Association

External links

• Official Supreme Court of Victoria website

References

• Judges - Historic List