List of Judges of the Supreme Court of South Australia
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This is a list of Judges who have served on the Supreme Court of South Australia
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Supreme Court of South Australia
The Supreme Court of South Australia is the superior court for the Australian State of South Australia. It has unlimited jurisdiction within the state in civil matters, and hears the most serious criminal matters. The Supreme Court is the highest South Australian court in the Australian court...
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Chief Justices
| Name | Term as Chief Justice |
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| Sir Charles Cooper Charles Cooper (judge) Sir Charles Cooper was a politician and the first Chief Justice of South Australia.Cooper was born in Henley-on-Thames, the third son of Thomas Cooper, under-sheriff of Oxfordshire. Charle entered the Inner Temple in 1822 and was called to the bar in February 1827. He practised on the Oxford... |
1 July 1856 – 20 November 1861 |
| Sir Richard Hanson Richard Hanson (Australian politician) Sir Richard Davies Hanson , was the fourth Premier of South Australia, from 30 September 1857 until 8 May 1860, and was a Chief Judge from 20 November 1861 until 4 March 1876 on the Supreme Court of South Australia, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of South... |
20 November 1861 – 4 March 1876 |
| Sir Samuel Way Samuel Way Sir Samuel James Way, 1st Baronet , English-Australian jurist, was a Chief Justice from 18 March 1876 until 8 January 1916 of the Supreme Court of South Australia, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of South Australia.Way was born in Portsmouth, England, in 1836... |
18 March 1876 – 8 January 1916 |
| Sir George Murray | 20 January 1916 – 18 February 1942 |
| Sir Mellis Napier Mellis Napier Sir Thomas John Mellis Napier KCMG was a judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia between 28 February 1924 and 28 February 1967, and Chief Justice of South Australia from 25 February 1942 until 28 February 1967.-Honours:... |
25 February 1942 – 28 February 1967 |
| Dr John Bray John Jefferson Bray The Honourable Dr John Jefferson Bray, AC was an Australian lawyer, academic and published poet, and from 1967-1978 served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia.-Family:... |
28 February 1967 – 28 November 1978 |
| Len King Len King Leonard John King, , was an Australian Test cricket match umpire, from Victoria.He umpired 6 Test matches between 1989 and 1993... |
30 October 1978 – 28 April 1995 |
| John Doyle | 4 May 1995 - present |
Judges (including Chief Justices)
| Name | Term as Judge |
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| Sir John Jeffcott John Jeffcott Sir John William Jeffcott BA MA was the first judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia. He also served as Chief Justice of Sierra Leone.-Biography:... |
27 May 1836 – 12 December 1837 |
| Sir Charles Cooper Charles Cooper (judge) Sir Charles Cooper was a politician and the first Chief Justice of South Australia.Cooper was born in Henley-on-Thames, the third son of Thomas Cooper, under-sheriff of Oxfordshire. Charle entered the Inner Temple in 1822 and was called to the bar in February 1827. He practised on the Oxford... |
July 1838/March 1839 - 20 November 1861 |
| Dr George Crawford | 27 June 1850 – 24 September 1852 |
| Benjamin Boothby Benjamin Boothby Benjamin Boothby was a South Australian colonial judge, who was removed from office for misbehaviour.Boothby was born in Doncaster, Yorkshire. He assisted Sir Thomas Wilde in his electoral campaigns and read in his chambers. He was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1841.In 1853, Boothby was... |
25 February 1853 – 29 July 1867 (removed from office) |
| Edward Castres Gwynne Edward Castres Gwynne Edward Castres Gwynne was an English-born Australian lawyer, Supreme Court of South Australia judge and politician.-Early life:... |
26 February 1859 – 28 February 1881 |
| Richard Hanson Richard Hanson (Australian politician) Sir Richard Davies Hanson , was the fourth Premier of South Australia, from 30 September 1857 until 8 May 1860, and was a Chief Judge from 20 November 1861 until 4 March 1876 on the Supreme Court of South Australia, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of South... |
20 November 1861 – 4 March 1876 |
| William Alfred Wearing | 8 August 1867 – 25 February 1875 |
| Randolph Isham Stow Randolph Isham Stow Randolph Isham Stow was an English-born Australian Supreme Court judge.Stow was born in Framlingham, Suffolk, England, the eldest son of the Rev. Thomas Quinton Stow and his wife Elizabeth, née Eppes... |
15 March 1875 – 17 September 1878 |
| Sir Samuel Way Samuel Way Sir Samuel James Way, 1st Baronet , English-Australian jurist, was a Chief Justice from 18 March 1876 until 8 January 1916 of the Supreme Court of South Australia, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of South Australia.Way was born in Portsmouth, England, in 1836... |
18 March 1876 – 8 January 1916 |
| Sir James Boucaut James Boucaut Sir James Penn Boucaut KCMG was an Australian judge and politician, Premier of South Australia three times: 1866–1867, 1875–1876 and 1877–1878.-Early life:... |
25 September 1878 – 24 February 1905 |
| Richard Bullock Andrews Richard Bullock Andrews Richard Bullock Andrews was an Australian politician and judge.Richard Bullock Andrews was born in Epping, Essex, England the eldest child of Richard Bullock Andrews, an attorney, and his wife Emma Ann. From December 1839 Bullock worked in his father's solicitors business... |
9 March 1881 – 26 June 1884 |
| Sir William Henry Bundey William Henry Bundey Sir William Henry Bundey was an Australian politician and judge.-Early life:Bundey was born in Exbury, Hampshire, England, the second son of James Bundey and his wife Harriett née Lockyer. The family emigrated to South Australia in 1848 after losing money in England... |
2 July 1884, - 30 November 1903 |
| Sir John Hannah Gordon John Hannah Gordon Sir John Hannah Gordon was a Scottish-Australian judge and politician.Gordon was born at Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire, Scotland, the eldest son of the Rev. James Gordon, preacher of the Free Church, and his wife Margaret, née Leonard. The family migrated to South Australia in 1859 where Rev... |
2 December 1903 – 23 December 1923 |
| Robert Homburg | 24 February 1905 – 23 March 1912 |
| Sir George Murray George John Robert Murray Sir George John Robert Murray KCMG was a judge from 2 April 1913 until 18 February 1942 on the Supreme Court of South Australia, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of South Australia... |
2 April 1913 – 18 February 1942 |
| Alexander Buchanan | 20 January 1916 – 6 January 1921 |
| Thomas Slaney Poole | 25 September 1919 – 2 May 1927 |
| Sir Herbert Parsons | 6 January 1921 – 16 June 1945 |
| Sir Mellis Napier Mellis Napier Sir Thomas John Mellis Napier KCMG was a judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia between 28 February 1924 and 28 February 1967, and Chief Justice of South Australia from 25 February 1942 until 28 February 1967.-Honours:... |
28 February 1924 – 28 February 1967 |
| Frederick Richards | 23 March 1927 – 6 December 1945 |
| Arthur Piper | 16 June 1927 – 19 February 1936 |
| Edward Cleland | 5 March 1936 – 1 July 1943 |
| Sir Herbert Mayo | 30 March 1942 – 30 June 1966 |
| Sir Geoffrey Reed Geoffrey Reed (judge) Sir Geoffrey Sandford Reed was a judge in the Supreme Court of South Australia and the first Director-General of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation .-Early life:... |
15 July 1943 – 14 March 1962 |
| Sir George Ligertwood George Ligertwood Sir George Coutts Ligertwood was a Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia .- Early life and legal career :Ligertwood was born on 15 October 1888, in Maylands, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.... |
12 July 1945 – 14 October 1958 |
| Sir Charles Abbott | 2 May 1946 – 30 October 1959 |
| Sir Bruce Ross | 20 November 1952 – 21 May 1963 |
| Francis Piper | 15 October 1958 – 27 September 1959 |
| James Brazel | 16 November 1959 – 23 August 1961 |
| Sir Roderic Chamberlain | 16 November 1959 – 16 June 1971 |
| Vivian Millhouse | 26 October 1961 – 24 October 1963 |
| Leo Travers | 14 May 1962 – 19 October 1969 |
| David Hogarth | 12 July 1962 – 14 September 1979 |
| Sir Charles Bright | 24 October 1963 – 15 December 1978 |
| Dame Roma Mitchell Roma Mitchell Dame Roma Flinders Mitchell, AC, DBE, CVO, QC was an Australian lawyer, judge and state governor. Mitchell was the first Australian woman to be a judge, a Queen's Counsel, a chancellor of an Australian university and the Governor of an Australian state.Roma Mitchell was born in Adelaide in 1913,... |
23 September 1965 – 1 October 1983 |
| George Walters | 1 July 1966 – 1 September 1984 |
| Dr John Bray John Jefferson Bray The Honourable Dr John Jefferson Bray, AC was an Australian lawyer, academic and published poet, and from 1967-1978 served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia.-Family:... |
28 February 1967 – 28 November 1978 |
| Dr Howard Zelling | 23 October 1969 – 13 August 1986 |
| Andrew Wells | 21 May 1970 – 8 June 1984 |
| Keith Sangster | 24 June 1971 – 1 March 1984 |
| Samuel Jacobs | 17 May 1973 – 4 December 1990 |
| Len King Len King (politician) Leonard James King, AC, QC was an Australian politician, lawyer and judge.-Political career:King was an Australian Labor Party member of the South Australian House of Assembly between 1970 and 1975, representing the eastern suburbs electorate of Coles... |
20 June 1975 – 28 April 1995 |
| Michael White | 15 June 1978 – 2 February 1993 |
| Christopher Legoe | 29 June 1978 – 22 April 1994 |
| Brian Cox | 21 December 1978 – 5 February 1999 |
| Robert Mohr | 21 December 1978 – 28 July 1995 |
| Roderick Matheson | 9 August 1979 – 4 August 1998 |
| Donald Williams | 23 March 1980 – 24 September 1982 |
| Derek Bollen | 4 March 1982 – 27 March 1997 |
| Robin Millhouse Robin Millhouse Robin Rhodes Millhouse QC has been, at various times, the South Australian Attorney-General, the first Australian Democrats parliamentarian, and the Chief Justice of both Kiribati and Nauru.... |
7 July 1982 – 8 December 1999 |
| Elliot Johnston | 28 June 1983 – 26 February 1988 |
| Graham Prior | 1 March 1984 – 5 July 2004 |
| Trevor Olsson | 28 June 1984 – 30 July 2001 |
| Maurice O'Loughlin | 30 August 1984 – 31 July 1989 |
| John von Doussa | 14 August 1986 – 30 November 1988 |
| John Perry | 3 March 1988 – 2 April 2007 |
| Kevin Duggan | 1 December 1988 - present |
| Ted Mullighan Ted Mullighan Edward Picton "Ted" Mullighan, QC was an Australian judge, who was Commissioner of the Children in State Care Commission of Inquiry appointed by the Government of South Australia.... |
7 September 1989 – 2 December 2004 |
| Bruce Debelle | 11 October 1990 – 25 June 2008 |
| Margaret Nyland | 15 October 1993 - present |
| Bruce Lander | November 1994 - 13 July 2003 |
| John Doyle | 4 May 1995 - present |
| Tim Williams | 12 September 1995 – 17 April 2003 |
| David Bleby | 2 April 1997 - present |
| David Wicks | 13 August 1998 – 22 August 2003 |
| Brian Martin Brian Ross Martin Brian Ross Martin AO QC was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory from 2004 to 2010. He was sworn in as the Northern Territory's fifth Chief Justice on 27 January 2004 following the retirement of Brian Frank Martin.At the time of his appointment he was a judge of the... |
23 February 1999 – 27 January 2004 |
| Thomas Gray | 26 April 2000 - present |
| Anthony Besanko | 18 October 2001 – 31 March 2006 |
| John Sulan | 3 April 2003 - present |
| Ann Vanstone | 21 August 2003 - present |
| Tim Anderson | 27 November 2003 - present |
| Richard White | 6 May 2004 - present |
| Robyn Layton | 14 February 2005 – 3 September 2010 |
| Michael David | 6 July 2006 - present |
| Trish Kelly | 18 January 2007 - present |
| Chris Kourakis | 21 August 2008 - present |
| David Peek | 23 September 2010 - present |