The Chief Justice of Queensland is the senior judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland

Supreme Court of Queensland

The Supreme Court of Queensland, which is based at the Law Courts Complex, is the superior court for the Australian State of Queensland and sits around the middle of the Australian court hierarchy...

 and the highest ranking judicial officer in the Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n state of Queensland

Queensland

Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

. The Chief Justice is both the judicial head of the Supreme Court as well as the administrative head. He or she is responsible for arranging the business of the court and establishing its rules and procedures.

The current Chief Justice is Paul de Jersey

Paul de Jersey

Paul de Jersey, AC, QC was appointed Chief Justice on 17 February 1998 of the Supreme Court of Queensland, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Queensland.-Education:...

, who was appointed by Governor Peter Arnison

Peter Arnison

Major General Peter Maurice Arnison AC CVO, , was Governor of Queensland from July 1997 until July 2003. He graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon in 1962, and retired from the Australian Army in 1996...

 in 1998.

List of Chief Justices of Queensland

Name	Term	Reason for leaving	Death
James Cockle	21 February 1863 – 24 June 1879	Retired	27 January 1895
Charles Lilley Charles Lilley Sir Charles Lilley was a Premier and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland. He had a significant influence on the form and spirit of state education in colonial Queensland which lasted well into the twentieth century.Lilley was born at Newcastle on Tyne, England, the son of Thomas...	25 June 1879 – 13 March 1893	Resigned	20 August 1897
Samuel Griffith Samuel Griffith Sir Samuel Walker Griffith GCMG QC, was an Australian politician, Premier of Queensland, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia and a principal author of the Constitution of Australia.-Early life:...	13 March 1893 – 4 October 1903	Appointed Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia High Court of Australia The High Court of Australia is the supreme court in the Australian court hierarchy and the final court of appeal in Australia. It has both original and appellate jurisdiction, has the power of judicial review over laws passed by the Parliament of Australia and the parliaments of the States, and...	9 August 1920
Pope Alexander Cooper Pope Alexander Cooper Sir Pope Alexander Cooper KCMG was an attorney-general and a chief judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland, Australia.-Early life:...	21 October 1903 – 31 March 1922	Retired	30 August 1923
Thomas McCawley Thomas McCawley Thomas William McCawley was a chief justice of Queensland.McCawley was born in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. He was of Irish-Catholic background, his father having been born in County Leitrim, Ireland. On his mother's side he had German ancestry, his mother coming from Darmstadt, Germany...	1 April 1922 – 16 April 1925	Death	16 April 1925
James Blair James Blair (Australian judge) Sir James William Blair KCMG was an Australian politician, lawyer and judge. He was a successful politician, being elected to the Queensland Parliament on several occasions. He held the office of Attorney-General and was also the Minister for Mines and introduced many successful law reforms...	24 April 1925 – 16 May 1940	Retired	18 November 1944
Hugh Denis Macrossan Hugh Denis Macrossan Hugh Denis Macrossan was a politician and judge in Queensland, a State of Australia. He was elected as a member of the Queensland Parliament, and was later to become a judge and also the Chief Justice of Queensland. He was the son of a prominent Queensland politician, and he was elected as a...	17 May 1940 – 23 June 1940	Death	23 June 1940
William Webb	27 June 1940 – 15 May 1946	Appointed to the High Court of Australia High Court of Australia The High Court of Australia is the supreme court in the Australian court hierarchy and the final court of appeal in Australia. It has both original and appellate jurisdiction, has the power of judicial review over laws passed by the Parliament of Australia and the parliaments of the States, and...	11 August 1972
Neal Macrossan Neal Macrossan Neal William Macrossan was a lawyer, judge and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland.-Early years:Macrossan was born on 27 April 1889 at Lutwyche in Queensland. He was the eighth and youngest child of Australian politician John Murtagh Macrossan and Bridget Macrossan . He was educated...	23 April 1946 – 30 December 1955	Death	30 December 1955
Alan Mansfield Alan Mansfield Sir Alan James Mansfield KCMG, KCVO was Governor of Queensland, Australia between 1966 and 1972.-Family:Sir Alan Mansfield was born in Brisbane and educated in Sydney. The Mansfield family had land in Gumdale. Mansfield lived in the Mount Gravatt area for many years...	9 February 1956 – 21 February 1966	Retired	17 July 1980
William Mack	24 February 1966 – 12 May 1971	Retired	26 July 1979
Mostyn Hanger Mostyn Hanger Sir Mostyn Hanger KBE was a judge, Chief Justice of Queensland, and Administrator of Queensland.-Early years:...	13 May 1971 – 18 July 1977	Retired	11 August 1980
Charles Wanstall	19 July 1977 – 17 February 1982	Retired	17 October 1999
Walter Campbell	18 February 1982 – 7 July 1985	Appointed as Governor of Queensland	4 September 2004
Dormer Andrews	8 July 1985 – 7 April 1989	Retired	28 July 2004
John Murtagh Macrossan	10 April 1989 – 16 February 1998	Retired
Paul de Jersey Paul de Jersey Paul de Jersey, AC, QC was appointed Chief Justice on 17 February 1998 of the Supreme Court of Queensland, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Queensland.-Education:...	21 September 1998 –	Current