List of justices of the Vermont Supreme Court explained

Following is a list of justices of the Vermont Supreme Court:

Current membership

Title	Name	Joined the Court	Appointed by
Chief Justice	Paul L. Reiber	2003	Jim Douglas
Associate Justice	Harold Eaton Jr.	2014	Peter Shumlin
Associate Justice	Karen Carroll	2017	Phil Scott
Associate Justice	William D. Cohen	2019	Phil Scott
Associate Justice	Nancy Waples	2022	Phil Scott

All justices

Judge	Began active service	Ended active service	Notes
	1778 1782 1785	1780 1783 1788	Chief Judge.
	1778	1779
	1778	1785
	1778	1778
	1778	1780
	1779	1788	Chief Judge in 1784.
	1780	1780
	1781	1782	Chief Judge; removed from the court by the dissolution of the union with towns in New Hampshire in February 1782 and replaced by Moses Robinson.^[1]
	1781	1782
	1782	1782
	1782	1784
	1783	1785
	1784	1787
	1786 1789 1796 1813	1786 1790 1796 1814	Removed in 1786 by reduction of the court to three judges. Chief Judge from 1789 to 1790, in 1796, and from 1813 to 1814.
	1786	1786	Removed by reduction of the court to three judges.
	1788	1788
	1789 1798	1790 1800
	1789	1793	Chief Judge from 1791 to 1793.
	1791	1793
	1791	1795	Chief Judge from 1794 to 1795.
	1794	1800
	1794	1800	Chief Judge from 1798 to 1800.
	1797	1797	Chief Judge.
	1801	1806	Chief Judge.
	1801	1812	Chief Judge from 1807 to 1812.
	1801	1802
	1803	1812
	1807	1808
	1809	1812
	1813	1814
	1813	1814
	1815	1815	Chief Judge.
	1815 1823	1816 1828	Chief Judge in 1816, and from 1823 to 1828.
	1815	1816
	1816	1816
	1817	1820	Chief Judge.
	1817 1824	1822 1824
	1817	1821
	1821	1822	Chief Judge.
	1822 1829	1823 1845	Chief Judge from 1834 to 1845
	1823	1824
	1825	1829	Chief Judge in 1829.
	1825	1833	Chief Judge from 1830 to 1833.
	1825 1829	1826 1851	Chief Judge from 1846 to 1851.
	1827	1828
	1828	1830
	1830	1845	Chief Judge from 1834 to 1845.
	1830	1830
	1831	1833
	1831	1837
	1834	1841
	1834	1835
	1836	1859	Chief Judge from 1852 to 1859.
	1838 1852	1849 1858
	1842 1844	1842 1844
	1843 1845	1843 1850
	1846	1849
	1846	1847
	1848 1857	1849 1864	Chief Judge from 1860 to 1864.
	1851	1856
	1857	1864
	1857	1882	Chief Judge from 1865 to 1882.
	1857	1880
	1859	1866
	1860	1874
	1865	1865
	1865	1869
	1865	1869
	1867	1869
	1869	1878
	1870	1890	Chief Judge from 1882 to 1890
	1870	1884
	1870	1899	Chief Judge from 1890 to 1899
	1874	1890
	1877	1879
	1879	1889
	1880	1902	Chief Judge from 1899 to 1902
	1882	1913	Chief Judge/Chief Justice from 1902 to 1913
	1884	1887
	1887	1908
	1890	1917	Chief Justice from 1915 to 1917.
	1890	1905
	1890	1900
	1899	1929	Chief Justice from 1917 to 1929.
	1900	1904
	1902 1908	1906 1919
	1904 1909	1906 1938	Chief Justice from 1913 to 1915, and from 1929 to 1938.
	1905 1917	1906 1923
	1913	1926
	1914 1919	1915 1938
	1914	1915
	1923	1926
	1926	1927
	1926	1949	Chief Justice from 1939 to 1949.
	1927	1929
	1929	1931
	1929	1937
	1931	1934
	1934	1955	Chief Justice from 1949 to 1955.
	1937	1949
	1938	1948
	1938	1958	Chief Justice from 1955 to 1958.
	1948	1958	Chief Justice from 1958 to 1959.
	1949	1959
	1949	1951
	1952	1953
	1953	1956
	1955	1963	Chief Justice from 1959 to 1963.
	1956	1972	Chief Justice from 1963 to 1972.
	1958	1974	Chief Justice from 1972 to 1974.
	1959	1982	Chief Justice from 1974 to 1982.
	1959	1976
	1963	1964
	1964	1975
	1972	1980
	1974	1981
	1975	1984	Chief Justice from 1983 to 1984.
	1976	1987
	1981	1984
	1981	1990
	1984	1997	Chief Justice from 1984 to 1997.
	1983	1997
	1985	1987
	1987	2017
	1987	1988	Appointed but never confirmed by the Senate; withdrew his confirmation request on April 3, 1988.
	1988	2003
	1990	2011	First woman to serve on the court.
	1997	2004	Chief Justice from 1997 to 2004.
	1997	2019
	2003	Present	Chief Justice since 2004.
	2005	2013
	2011	2021	Confirmed to be a Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.^[2]
	2013	2014	Confirmed to be a Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Vermont.^[3]
	2014	Present
	2017	Present
	2019	Present
	2022	Present

Notes and References

1. Office of the Vermont Secretary of State, Vermont State Archives and Records Administration, "Justices of the Supreme Court, 1778–Present.
2. Web site: Biographical Directory of Federal Judges . Federal Judicial Center.
3. Web site: Biographical Directory of Federal Judges . Federal Judicial Center.