List of Justices of the Supreme Court of California
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This is a list of Justices of the Supreme Court of California. The Supreme Court of California
Supreme Court of California
The Supreme Court of California is the highest state court in California. It is headquartered in San Francisco and regularly holds sessions in Los Angeles and Sacramento. Its decisions are binding on all other California state courts.-Composition:...

 is the highest judicial body in the state and sits at the apex of the courts of California
Courts of California
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. Its membership consists of the Chief Justice of California and six Associate Justice
Associate Justice
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s who are nominated by the Governor of California
Governor of California
The Governor of California is the chief executive of the California state government, whose responsibilities include making annual State of the State addresses to the California State Legislature, submitting the budget, and ensuring that state laws are enforced...

 and appointed after confirmation by the California Commission on Judicial Appointments (which consists of the Chief Justice, the Attorney General of California
California Attorney General
The California Attorney General is the State Attorney General of California. The officer's duty is to ensure that "the laws of the state are uniformly and adequately enforced" The Attorney General carries out the responsibilities of the office through the California Department of Justice.The...

, and the state's senior presiding justice of the California Courts of Appeal; the senior Associate Justice fills the Chief Justice's spot on the commission when a new Chief Justice is nominated). Justices of the Supreme Court serve 12-year terms and receive a salary which is currently set at $228,856 per year for the Chief Justice and at $218,237 per year for each Associate Justice.

Under the 1849 Constitution of California, the Supreme Court had a Chief Justice and two Associate Justices, with 6-year terms of office. An 1862 constitutional amendment expanded the Court to a Chief Justice and four Associate Justices, with 10-year terms. Since the adoption of the 1879 Constitution, the Court has had a Chief Justice and six Associate Justices, with 12-year terms.

The 1849 Constitution specified that the first Supreme Court justices would be appointed by the Legislature and that the justices would be subject to partisan direct election
Direct election
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s from that point forward. The Governor could appoint justices in the event of a vacancy on the Court in between the elections. In 1910, elections for the Supreme Court became nonpartisan. In 1934, the state implemented the present system of gubernatorial appointment with retention election
Retention election
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s, replacing the direct election
Direct election
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 of justices.

List of Justices

  • Chief Justice Jackson Temple
    Jackson Temple
    Jackson Temple was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California....

     did not seek re-election in 1871, was elected as an Associate Justice in 1886 but resigned in 1889, and was again elected as an Associate Justice in 1895 serving (until his death in 1902). Therefore, he is listed three times. denotes justices who served as Chief Justice for at least part of their tenure on the court while denotes currently-serving justices.

Name Assumed Office Vacated Office Appointed by
S. Clinton Hastings
Serranus Clinton Hastings
Serranus Clinton Hastings was a 19th-century politician and a prominent lawyer in the United States. He studied law as a young man and moved to the Iowa District in 1837 to open a law office. Iowa became a territory a year later, and he was elected a member of the House of Representatives of the...

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December 22, 1849 January 1, 1852 Legislature
California State Legislature
The California State Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of California. It is a bicameral body consisting of the lower house, the California State Assembly, with 80 members, and the upper house, the California State Senate, with 40 members...

Nathaniel Bennett
Nathaniel Bennett
Nathaniel Bennett was one of the first Associate Justices of the California Supreme Court....

 
December 26, 1849 October 3, 1851 Legislature
California State Legislature
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Henry A. Lyons
Henry A. Lyons
Henry A. Lyons was the 2nd Chief Justice of California....

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December 26, 1849 March 31, 1852 Legislature
California State Legislature
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Hugh Murray* October 11, 1851 September 18, 1857 Governor McDougall
Solomon Heydenfeldt
Solomon Heydenfeldt
Solomon Heydenfeldt was the first Jewish justice of the Supreme Court of California in the Unitied States. He was elected by direct vote of the people and served from 1852 to 1857....

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January 20, 1852 January 6, 1857 Direct election
Direct election
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Alexander O. Anderson
Alexander O. Anderson
Alexander Outlaw Anderson was an American attorney who represented Tennessee in the United States Senate, and later served in the California State Senate, and on the California Supreme Court.-Biography:The son of longtime U.S...

 
April 6, 1852 November 2, 1852 Governor Bigler
John Bigler
John Bigler was an American lawyer, politician and diplomat. A Democrat, he served as the third Governor of California from 1852 to 1856 and was the first California governor to complete an entire term in office successfully, as well as the first to win re-election...

Alexander Wells  January 3, 1853 October 31, 1854 Direct election
Direct election
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Charles Henry Bryan
Charles Henry Bryan
Charles Henry Bryan was a politician and jurist in California.-Biography:Bryan was born on October 20, 1822 in Ellicottville, New York. His father, John A. Bryan, was a United States diplomat, and his brother-in-law, John B. Weller, was a United States Senator...

 
November 24, 1854 November 15, 1855 Governor Bigler
John Bigler
John Bigler was an American lawyer, politician and diplomat. A Democrat, he served as the third Governor of California from 1852 to 1856 and was the first California governor to complete an entire term in office successfully, as well as the first to win re-election...

David S. Terry
David S. Terry
David Smith Terry was a California politician, who killed United States Senator David C. Broderick in the Broderick – Terry duel in 1859. He was then killed in 1889 by a bodyguard of United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Field.-Biography:Terry was born in Christian County, Kentucky...

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November 15, 1855 September 12, 1859 Direct election
Direct election
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Peter H. Burnett  January 13, 1857 October 12, 1857 Governor J. N. Johnson
J. Neely Johnson
John Neely Johnson was an American lawyer and politician. He was elected as the fourth governor of California from 1856 to 1858, and later appointed justice to the Nevada Supreme Court from 1867 to 1871...

Stephen Johnson Field
Stephen Johnson Field
Stephen Johnson Field was an American jurist. He was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court of the United States Supreme Court from May 20, 1863, to December 1, 1897...

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October 13, 1857 May 20, 1863 Governor J. N. Johnson
J. Neely Johnson
John Neely Johnson was an American lawyer and politician. He was elected as the fourth governor of California from 1856 to 1858, and later appointed justice to the Nevada Supreme Court from 1867 to 1871...

Joseph G. Baldwin  October 2, 1858 January 2, 1864 Direct election
Direct election
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Warner Cope
Warner Cope
Warner Walton Cope , also known as W. W. Cope, was the 6th Chief Justice of California.Born in Kentucky, Cope came to California in 1850 and tried mining, but found little success. In 1853 he resumed work as an attorney, first in El Dorado County and the next year in Jackson, Amador County. He was...

 
September 20, 1859 January 2, 1864 Governor Weller
John B. Weller
John B. Weller was the fifth Governor of California from January 8, 1858 to January 9, 1860 and a Congressman from Ohio, U.S. senator from California, and minister to Mexico.-Life:...

Edward Norton  December 18, 1861 January 2, 1864 Direct election
Direct election
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Edwin B. Crocker
Edwin B. Crocker
Edwin Bryant Crocker was a California Supreme Court Justice and founder of the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California.-Biography:...

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May 21, 1863 January 2, 1864 Governor Stanford
Leland Stanford
Amasa Leland Stanford was an American tycoon, industrialist, robber baron, politician and founder of Stanford University.-Early years:...

John Currey
John Currey
John Moore Currey was the eighth Chief Justice of California, and candidate for Governor of California in 1859.Born in Westmorland County, New York in 1814, John Currey died in Dixon, California in 1912...

 
January 2, 1864 January 6, 1868 Direct election
Direct election
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Augustus Rhodes
Augustus Rhodes
Augustus L. Rhodes was the 10th Chief Justice of California.Educated at Hamilton College, Rhodes studied law and then moved to Bloomfield, Indiana, being admitted to the bar there in 1846. He served one term as the prosecuting attorney for the circuit court , and departed for California in 1854...

 
January 2, 1864 January 5, 1880 Direct election
Direct election
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Silas W. Sanderson* January 2, 1864 January 4, 1870 Direct election
Direct election
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Lorenzo Sawyer
Lorenzo Sawyer
Lorenzo Sawyer was an American lawyer and judge who was appointed the Supreme Court of California in 1860 and served as Chief Justice of California from 1868–70. He served as a circuit judge for the U.S...

 
January 2, 1864 January 10, 1870 Direct election
Direct election
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Oscar L. Shafter  January 2, 1864 December 11, 1867 Direct election
Direct election
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Joseph B. Crockett  December 1867 January 5, 1880 Governor Haight
Royal T. Sprague
Royal Sprague
Royal Tyler Sprague was the 11th Chief Justice of California....

 
January 6, 1868 February 24, 1872 Direct election
Direct election
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William T. Wallace
William T. Wallace
William T. Wallace was the 12th Chief Justice of California and the 6th Attorney General of California. He served on the Supreme Court of California from 1870 to 1879 and as Attorney General from 1856 to 1858.-External links:...

 
January 10, 1870 January 5, 1880 Direct election
Direct election
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Jackson Temple
Jackson Temple
Jackson Temple was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California....

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January 10, 1870 January 1, 1872 Governor Haight
Addison Niles
Addison Niles
Addison Cook Niles was an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of California from 1872-1880. The town of Niles in Fremont, California is named after Addison Niles, who was once a railroad attorney for the Western Pacific Railroad....

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January 1, 1872 January 5, 1880 Direct election
Direct election
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Isaac S. Belcher  March 4, 1872 January 5, 1880 Governor Booth
Newton Booth
Newton Booth was an American politician.Born in Salem, Indiana, he attended the common schools. In 1841, his parents Beebe and Hannah Booth moved from Salem to Terre Haute, Indiana. Newton graduated from Asbury University, later renamed DePauw University, in nearby Greencastle, Indiana. He studied...

Elisha W. McKinstry
Elisha W. McKinstry
Elisha Williams McKinstry was a California jurist of the nineteenth century. He served as a justice of the California Supreme Court from 1874-1888....

 
December 29, 1873 October 1, 1888 Direct election
Direct election
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Robert F. Morrison
Robert F. Morrison
Robert F. Morrison was the 13th Chief Justice of California. Before his election to the Supreme Court of California, he had been Judge of the Fourth Judicial District in California.-References:...

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January 5, 1880 March 2, 1887 Direct election
Direct election
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Samuel B. McKee  January 5, 1880 January 3, 1887 Direct election
Direct election
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Milton H. Myrick  January 5, 1880 January 3, 1887 Direct election
Direct election
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Erskine M. Ross
Erskine Mayo Ross
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January 5, 1880 October 1, 1886 Direct election
Direct election
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John R. Sharpstein  January 5, 1880 December 28, 1892 Direct election
Direct election
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James D. Thornton  January 5, 1880 January 5, 1891 Direct election
Direct election
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Jackson Temple
Jackson Temple
Jackson Temple was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California....

 
December 13, 1886 June 25, 1889 Direct election
Direct election
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Van R. Patterson  December 22, 1886 May 3, 1894 Direct election
Direct election
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Thomas B. McFarland  December 28, 1886 May 3, 1894 Direct election
Direct election
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Niles Searls
Niles Searls
Niles Searls was an attorney, politician, and the Chief Justice of California.-Early years:Searls, whose last name is also sometimes spelled as Searles, was born in Coeymans, New York. His father, Abraham Searls , of English descent, worked as a farmer. His mother, Lydia Niles, was of Scottish...

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April 20, 1887 November 6, 1888 Governor Bartlett
Washington Bartlett
Washington Montgomery Bartlett was the 20th Mayor of San Francisco, California from 1883–1887 and was California's first and to date only Jewish Governor of California.- Life and career :...

John D. Works
John D. Works
John Downey Works was a U.S. Senator representing California from 1911 to 1917.John Downey Works was born in Indiana and attended private schools there. As a young man he served in the American Civil War as a member of the Tenth Regiment of the Indiana Volunteer Cavalry...

 
October 2, 1888 January 5, 1891 Governor Waterman
Robert Waterman (governor)
Robert Whitney Waterman was an American politician. He served as the 17th Governor of California from September 12, 1887 until January 8, 1891.-Early years:...

William H. Beatty
William H. Beatty
William H. Beatty was the 15th Chief Justice of California from 1889–1914. Previously, he was Chief Justice of the Nevada Supreme Court from 1879–1880.-External links:*...

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November 6, 1888 August 4, 1914 Direct election
Direct election
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Charles N. Fox  June 25, 1889 January 7, 1895 Governor Waterman
Robert Waterman (governor)
Robert Whitney Waterman was an American politician. He served as the 17th Governor of California from September 12, 1887 until January 8, 1891.-Early years:...

John J. De Haven
John J. De Haven
John Jefferson De Haven was a U.S. Representative from California.Born in St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, De Haven moved to California in 1853 with his parents, who settled in Humboldt County....

 
December 18, 1890 January 7, 1895 Direct election
Direct election
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C. H. Garoute  December 19, 1890 January 5, 1903 Direct election
Direct election
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Ralph C. Harrison  December 20, 1890 January 5, 1903 Direct election
Direct election
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William F. Fitzgerald
William F. Fitzgerald
William F. Fitzgerald was California Attorney General. He also served on the California Supreme Court, 1893-4.-External links:*...

 
February 2, 1893 January 7, 1895 Governor Markham
Henry Markham
Henry Harrison Markham was a United States Representative from March 4, 1885 to March 3, 1887 and the 18th Governor of California from January 8, 1891 until January 11, 1895.Markham was born in Wilmington, New York...

William C. Van Fleet
William Cary Van Fleet
William Cary Van Fleet was a United States federal judge.Born in Maumee, Ohio, Van Fleet read law to enter the bar in 1873. He was an assistant district attorney of Sacramento County, California from 1878 to 1879. He was a California State Assemblyman from 1881 to 1882. He was the Director of...

 
May 7, 1894 January 3, 1899 Governor Markham
Henry Markham
Henry Harrison Markham was a United States Representative from March 4, 1885 to March 3, 1887 and the 18th Governor of California from January 8, 1891 until January 11, 1895.Markham was born in Wilmington, New York...

Frederick W. Henshaw  December 29, 1894 January 1919 Direct election
Direct election
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Jackson Temple
Jackson Temple
Jackson Temple was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California....

 
January 7, 1895 December 25, 1902 Direct election
Direct election
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Walter Van Dyke  December 22, 1898 December 25, 1905 Direct election
Direct election
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Frank M. Angellotti
Frank M. Angellotti
Frank M. Angellotti was the 17th Chief Justice of California....

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December 11, 1902 November 1921 Direct election
Direct election
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Lucien Shaw
Lucien Shaw
Lucien Shaw was the 18th Chief Justice of California and a prominent Republican politician in California during the early 20th century. Shaw served as a judge on the Superior Court of California from 1889 to 1902, and as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California from 1903 until he...

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December 11, 1902 January 1923 Direct election
Direct election
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William G. Lorigan
William G. Lorigan
William G. Lorigan is a distinguished Justice of the Supreme Court of California. He is a Graduate of Santa Clara University. In 1909 he was appointed by Governor Henry Gage.-External links:* *...

 
January 7, 1903 January 1919 Governor Gage
Henry Gage
Henry Tifft Gage was an American lawyer, politician and diplomat. A Republican, Gage was elected to a single term as the 20th Governor of California from 1899 to 1903. Gage was also the U.S. Minister to Portugal for several months in 1910.-Biography:Gage was born on Christmas Day, 1852 in Geneva,...

M. C. Sloss  December 19, 1906 March 1, 1919 Governor Pardee
George Pardee
George Cooper Pardee was an American doctor of medicine and politician. The 21st Governor of California, holding office from January 7, 1903, to January 9, 1907, Pardee was the second native-born Californian to assume the governorship, after Romualdo Pacheco, and the first governor born in...

Henry A. Melvin  September 28, 1908 December 1920 Direct election
Direct election
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Matt I. Sullivan* August 22, 1914 January 4, 1915 Governor H. Johnson
Hiram Johnson
Hiram Warren Johnson was a leading American progressive and later isolationist politician from California; he served as the 23rd Governor from 1911 to 1917, and as a United States Senator from 1917 to 1945.-Early life:...

William P. Lawlor  December 22, 1914 July 25, 1926
Curtis D. Wilbur
Curtis D. Wilbur
Curtis Dwight Wilbur was born in Iowa. He was appointed to the United States Naval Academy in 1884. Shortly after graduation, Curtis Wilbur resigned his commission, a common practice at the time, and moved to Riverside, California. He was admitted to the California bar in 1890 and served as Los...

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January 1, 1918 March 19, 1924 Governor Stephens
William Stephens
William Dennison Stephens was an American federal and state politician. A three-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1911 to 1916, Stephens was also the 24th Governor of California from 1917 to 1923....

Thomas J. Lennon  December 20, 1918 August 14, 1926
Warren Olney, Jr.  March 1, 1919 July 1921
William A. Sloane  December 15, 1920 January 1923 Governor Stephens
William Stephens
William Dennison Stephens was an American federal and state politician. A three-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1911 to 1916, Stephens was also the 24th Governor of California from 1917 to 1923....

Charles A. Shurtleff  July 2, 1921 December 1922
William H. Waste
William H. Waste
William H. Waste was the 21st Chief Justice of California.Born near Chico, California, Waste graduated from the University of California in 1891 and Hastings Law School in San Francisco in 1894. He practiced law in Oakland and later in Berkeley...

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November 25, 1921 June 6, 1940 Governor Stephens
William Stephens
William Dennison Stephens was an American federal and state politician. A three-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1911 to 1916, Stephens was also the 24th Governor of California from 1917 to 1923....

Terry W. Ward  December 19, 1922 January 8, 1923
Frank H. Kerrigan
Frank Henry Kerrigan
Frank Henry Kerrigan was a United States federal judge.Born in Contra Costa County, California, Kerrigan read law to enter the bar in 1889. He was in private practice in California from 1890 to 1900. He was a justice of the peace in San Francisco, California from 1894 to 1900. He was a judge of...

 
January 8, 1923 February 11, 1924
Emmett Seawell  January 8, 1923 July 7, 1939
Louis Wescott Myers* January 15, 1923 January 1, 1926 Governor Richardson
Friend Richardson
Friend William Richardson , was an American newspaper publisher and politician. A member of the Progressive Party and later the Republican Party, Richardson was elected as the California State Treasurer from 1915 to 1923, and shortly afterwards as the 25th governor of California from 1923 to 1927...

John E. Richards
John E. Richards
John E. Richards was an associate justice of the California Supreme Court from 1924 until 1932.Richards was born on July 7, 1856 in San Jose. He obtained his undergraduate degree from University of the Pacific in 1877 and his law degree from the University of Michigan in 1879...

 
February 11, 1924 December 1932
John W. Shenk  April 14, 1924 August 3, 1959
Jesse W. Curtis, Sr.  January 1, 1926 January 1, 1945
Frank G. Finlayson  October 4, 1926 December 1926
Jeremiah F. Sullivan  November 22, 1926 December 1926
John W. Preston
John W. Preston
John White Preston was an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court from 1926 through 1935.He was born in Woodbury, Tennessee on May 14, 1877. His parents were Hugh L. Preston and Thankful C. Preston, nee Doak....

 
December 27, 1926 September 1935
William Langdon
William Langdon
William Henry Langdon was an American banker, lawyer and judge from California.-Biography:Langdon was born in Alameda County to William and Annie Langdon. Langdon attended local public schools, and graduated from the California State Normal School to become a teacher, while also entering the state...

 
January 4, 1927 August 1939
Ira F. Thompson  December 31, 1932 January 1, 1947
Nathaniel P. Conrey  October 1, 1935 November 1936 Governor Merriam
Frank Merriam
Frank Finley Merriam was an American politician who served as the 28th governor of California from June 2, 1934 until January 2, 1939...

Douglas L. Edmonds
Douglas L. Edmonds
Douglas L. Edmonds was an American jurist, serving on the Supreme Court of California and the United Nation's International Law Commission....

 
November 23, 1936 December 31, 1955 Governor Merriam
Frank Merriam
Frank Finley Merriam was an American politician who served as the 28th governor of California from June 2, 1934 until January 2, 1939...

Frederick W. Houser
Frederick W. Houser
Frederick Wilhelm Houser Frederick W. Houser was born to Justus Christian Houser and Martha Rodman in Jones County, Iowa...

 
October 1, 1937 October 12, 1942 Governor Merriam
Frank Merriam
Frank Finley Merriam was an American politician who served as the 28th governor of California from June 2, 1934 until January 2, 1939...

Jesse W. Carter  September 12, 1939 March 15, 1950 Governor Olson
Culbert Olson
Culbert Levy Olson was an American lawyer and politician. A Democrat, Olson was involved in Utah and California politics and was elected as the 29th Governor of California from 1939 to 1943.-Personal background:...

Phil S. Gibson
Phil S. Gibson
Phil Sheridan Gibson was the 22nd Chief Justice of California.-Biography:Gibson was born in Grant City, Missouri on November 28, 1888. He was the son of W. J. and Mollie Gibson. He attended the University of Missouri, graduating in 1912 with both an AB and LLB...

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October 2, 1939 August 30, 1964 Governor Olson
Culbert Olson
Culbert Levy Olson was an American lawyer and politician. A Democrat, Olson was involved in Utah and California politics and was elected as the 29th Governor of California from 1939 to 1943.-Personal background:...

Roger J. Traynor
Roger J. Traynor
Roger John Traynor served as the 23rd Chief Justice of California from 1964 to 1970, and as an Associate Justice from 1940 to 1964...

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August 13, 1940 January 31, 1970 Governor Olson
Culbert Olson
Culbert Levy Olson was an American lawyer and politician. A Democrat, Olson was involved in Utah and California politics and was elected as the 29th Governor of California from 1939 to 1943.-Personal background:...

B. Rey Schauer  December 18, 1942 September 15, 1965 Governor Olson
Culbert Olson
Culbert Levy Olson was an American lawyer and politician. A Democrat, Olson was involved in Utah and California politics and was elected as the 29th Governor of California from 1939 to 1943.-Personal background:...

Homer R. Spence
Homer R. Spence
Homer Robert Spence was an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court and a Justice of the District Court of Appeal, First District ....

 
January 2, 1945 June 1, 1964 Governor Warren
Earl Warren
Earl Warren was the 14th Chief Justice of the United States.He is known for the sweeping decisions of the Warren Court, which ended school segregation and transformed many areas of American law, especially regarding the rights of the accused, ending public-school-sponsored prayer, and requiring...

Marshall F. McComb
Marshall F. McComb
Marshall F. McComb was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California from 1955 to 1977.-Education and early career:...

 
January 3, 1956 May 3, 1977 Governor Knight
Goodwin Knight
Goodwin Jess Knight , known as "Goodie Knight", was a U.S. politician who was the 31st Governor of California from 1953 until 1959.-Early life:...

Raymond E. Peters  March 25, 1959 January 2, 1973 Governor P. Brown
Pat Brown
Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown, Sr. was the 32nd Governor of California, serving from 1959 to 1967, and the father of current Governor of California Jerry Brown.-Background:...

Thomas P. White  August 25, 1959 October 31, 1962 Governor P. Brown
Pat Brown
Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown, Sr. was the 32nd Governor of California, serving from 1959 to 1967, and the father of current Governor of California Jerry Brown.-Background:...

Maurice T. Dooling, Jr.  June 30, 1960 June 30, 1962 Governor P. Brown
Pat Brown
Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown, Sr. was the 32nd Governor of California, serving from 1959 to 1967, and the father of current Governor of California Jerry Brown.-Background:...

Mathew Tobriner
Mathew Tobriner
Mathew Oscar Tobriner was an Associate Justice on the California Supreme Court from July 1962–January 1982. An appointee of Democratic Governor Pat Brown, he had worked as a labor lawyer until 1959, when Brown appointed him to the California Court of Appeal. After three years on the Court...

 
July 2, 1962 January 20, 1981 Governor P. Brown
Pat Brown
Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown, Sr. was the 32nd Governor of California, serving from 1959 to 1967, and the father of current Governor of California Jerry Brown.-Background:...

Paul Peek
Paul Peek (politician)
Paul Peek was an American attorney, Democratic politician and jurist. Peek practiced law in southern California prior to his election in 1936 to the California Assembly, where he served as Speaker during the 1939 session. He was appointed Secretary of State in 1940 and then to the Court of Appeal,...

 
December 2, 1962 December 16, 1966 Governor P. Brown
Pat Brown
Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown, Sr. was the 32nd Governor of California, serving from 1959 to 1967, and the father of current Governor of California Jerry Brown.-Background:...

Stanley Mosk
Stanley Mosk
Stanley Mosk was an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court for 37 years , and holds the record for the longest-serving justice on that court. Before sitting on the Supreme Court, he served as Attorney General of California and as a trial court judge, among other governmental positions...

 
September 1, 1964 June 19, 2001 Governor P. Brown
Pat Brown
Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown, Sr. was the 32nd Governor of California, serving from 1959 to 1967, and the father of current Governor of California Jerry Brown.-Background:...

Louis H. Burke  November 20, 1964 November 30, 1974 Governor P. Brown
Pat Brown
Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown, Sr. was the 32nd Governor of California, serving from 1959 to 1967, and the father of current Governor of California Jerry Brown.-Background:...

Raymond L. Sullivan  December 20, 1966 January 19, 1977 Governor P. Brown
Pat Brown
Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown, Sr. was the 32nd Governor of California, serving from 1959 to 1967, and the father of current Governor of California Jerry Brown.-Background:...

Donald R. Wright* April 17, 1970 February 1, 1977 Governor Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

William P. Clark, Jr.
William P. Clark, Jr.
William Patrick Clark, Jr. , American politician, served under President Ronald Reagan as the Deputy Secretary of State from 1981 to 1982, United States National Security Advisor from 1982 to 1983, and the Secretary of the Interior from 1983 until 1985.- Life and career :A devout Catholic, former...

 
March 23, 1973 March 24, 1981 Governor Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

Frank K. Richardson
Frank K. Richardson
Frank Kellogg Richardson was an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court.-Early life:Born in St. Helena, California, Richardson graduated from Germantown High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended the University of Pennsylvania his freshman year but transferred to Stanford...

 
December 2, 1974 December 2, 1983 Governor Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

Wiley Manuel
Wiley Manuel
Wiley W. Manuel was an associate justice on the Supreme Court of California from 1977 – 1981 and the first African American to serve on the high court. Governor Jerry Brown appointed Justice Manuel on February 12, 1977. Justice Manuel had served on the court for only four years before he...

 
March 24, 1977 January 5, 1981 Governor J. Brown
Jerry Brown
Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr. is an American politician. Brown served as the 34th Governor of California , and is currently serving as the 39th California Governor...

Rose Elizabeth Bird* March 26, 1977 January 5, 1987 Governor J. Brown
Jerry Brown
Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr. is an American politician. Brown served as the 34th Governor of California , and is currently serving as the 39th California Governor...

Frank C. Newman  July 16, 1977 December 13, 1982 Governor J. Brown
Jerry Brown
Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr. is an American politician. Brown served as the 34th Governor of California , and is currently serving as the 39th California Governor...

Otto Kaus
Otto Kaus
Otto M. Kaus was a former judge from the State of California. He was born in Vienna, Austria. He was already attending school in Great Britain when the rest of his family fled the Nazis in the 1930s. Immigrating to the United States, his family settled in Los Angeles, California...

 
July 21, 1981 October 16, 1985 Governor J. Brown
Jerry Brown
Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr. is an American politician. Brown served as the 34th Governor of California , and is currently serving as the 39th California Governor...

Allen Broussard
Allen Broussard
Allen Broussard was an African-American judge who rose to become a justice of the California Supreme Court.He was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana on April 13, 1929, the son of Clemire and Eugenia Broussard. At the age of 16, he moved with his family to California...

 
July 22, 1981 August 31, 1991 Governor J. Brown
Jerry Brown
Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr. is an American politician. Brown served as the 34th Governor of California , and is currently serving as the 39th California Governor...

Cruz Reynoso
Cruz Reynoso
Cruz Reynoso is a civil rights lawyer, professor emeritus of law, and the first Chicano Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court . He also served on the California Third District Court of Appeal...

 
February 11, 1982 January 5, 1987 Governor J. Brown
Jerry Brown
Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr. is an American politician. Brown served as the 34th Governor of California , and is currently serving as the 39th California Governor...

Joseph Grodin
Joseph Grodin
Joseph R. Grodin is a lawyer and former appellate and Supreme Court judge in the state of California.-Biography:Grodin is a graduate from the University of California in Berkeley and from Yale University...

 
December 27, 1982 January 5, 1987 Governor J. Brown
Jerry Brown
Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr. is an American politician. Brown served as the 34th Governor of California , and is currently serving as the 39th California Governor...

Malcolm Lucas* April 6, 1984 May 1, 1996 Governor Deukmejian
George Deukmejian
Courken George Deukmejian, Jr. born June 6, 1928) is an Armenian American politician from California who as a Republican served as the 35th Governor of California and as California Attorney General .-Early life:...

Edward A. Panelli
Edward A. Panelli
Edward A. Panelli is a Justice of the Supreme Court of California. He received his B.S. Degree from Santa Clara University and J.D. Degree from Santa Clara University School of Law. In 1985 he was appointed to the California Supreme Court by Governor George Deukmejian.-External links:...

 
December 24, 1985 May 3, 1994 Governor Deukmejian
George Deukmejian
Courken George Deukmejian, Jr. born June 6, 1928) is an Armenian American politician from California who as a Republican served as the 35th Governor of California and as California Attorney General .-Early life:...

John Arguelles  March 18, 1987 March 1, 1989 Governor Deukmejian
George Deukmejian
Courken George Deukmejian, Jr. born June 6, 1928) is an Armenian American politician from California who as a Republican served as the 35th Governor of California and as California Attorney General .-Early life:...

David Eagleson
David Eagleson
David N. Eagleson served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California from 1987 to 1991. He practiced law in Long Beach, California for 20 years...

 
March 18, 1987 January 6, 1991 Governor Deukmejian
George Deukmejian
Courken George Deukmejian, Jr. born June 6, 1928) is an Armenian American politician from California who as a Republican served as the 35th Governor of California and as California Attorney General .-Early life:...

Marcus Kaufman
Marcus Kaufman
Marcus M. Kaufman served as the 103rd justice on the Supreme Court of California from March 1987 until his retirement in January 1990. Prior to his appointment to the Supreme Court, Justice Kaufman served for 17 years as an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate...

 
March 18, 1987 January 31, 1990 Governor Deukmejian
George Deukmejian
Courken George Deukmejian, Jr. born June 6, 1928) is an Armenian American politician from California who as a Republican served as the 35th Governor of California and as California Attorney General .-Early life:...

Joyce L. Kennard
Joyce L. Kennard
Joyce Luther Kennard is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California. Appointed by Governor George Deukmejian in 1989 she is the longest-serving justice sitting on the Court, having been retained by California's voters three times—first to fill the unexpired term in 1990, followed by...

 
April 5, 1989 Present Governor Deukmejian
George Deukmejian
Courken George Deukmejian, Jr. born June 6, 1928) is an Armenian American politician from California who as a Republican served as the 35th Governor of California and as California Attorney General .-Early life:...

Armand Arabian  March 1, 1990 March 1, 1996 Governor Deukmejian
George Deukmejian
Courken George Deukmejian, Jr. born June 6, 1928) is an Armenian American politician from California who as a Republican served as the 35th Governor of California and as California Attorney General .-Early life:...

Marvin R. Baxter  January 7, 1991 Present Governor Deukmejian
George Deukmejian
Courken George Deukmejian, Jr. born June 6, 1928) is an Armenian American politician from California who as a Republican served as the 35th Governor of California and as California Attorney General .-Early life:...

Ronald M. George
Ronald M. George
Ronald Marc George is the retired 27th Chief Justice of California, where he headed the Supreme Court of California and the Judicial Council of California...

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September 3, 1991 January 3, 2011 Governor Wilson
Pete Wilson
Peter Barton "Pete" Wilson is an American politician from California. Wilson, a Republican, served as the 36th Governor of California , the culmination of more than three decades in the public arena that included eight years as a United States Senator , eleven years as Mayor of San Diego and...

Kathryn Werdegar
Kathryn Werdegar
Kathryn Mickle Werdegar is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California. She was appointed to the Supreme Court by Governor Pete Wilson in 1994. She was retained by the electorate in November 2002, with 74.1% percent of the vote. She earned her B.A...

 
May 3, 1994 Present Governor Wilson
Pete Wilson
Peter Barton "Pete" Wilson is an American politician from California. Wilson, a Republican, served as the 36th Governor of California , the culmination of more than three decades in the public arena that included eight years as a United States Senator , eleven years as Mayor of San Diego and...

Janice Rogers Brown
Janice Rogers Brown
Janice Rogers Brown is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She previously was an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court, holding that post from May 2, 1996 until her appointment to the D.C. Circuit.President George W. Bush...

 
May 2, 1996 June 30, 2005 Governor Wilson
Pete Wilson
Peter Barton "Pete" Wilson is an American politician from California. Wilson, a Republican, served as the 36th Governor of California , the culmination of more than three decades in the public arena that included eight years as a United States Senator , eleven years as Mayor of San Diego and...

Ming Chin
Ming Chin
Ming William Chin is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California. He was appointed to the California Supreme Court by Governor Pete Wilson on January 25, 1996, and confirmed by the Commission on Judicial Appointments and sworn in on March 1, 1996...

 
March 1, 1996 Present Governor Wilson
Pete Wilson
Peter Barton "Pete" Wilson is an American politician from California. Wilson, a Republican, served as the 36th Governor of California , the culmination of more than three decades in the public arena that included eight years as a United States Senator , eleven years as Mayor of San Diego and...

Carlos R. Moreno  October 18, 2001 February 28, 2011 Governor Davis
Gray Davis
Joseph Graham "Gray" Davis, Jr. is an American Democratic politician who served as California's 37th Governor from 1999 until being recalled in 2003...

Carol Corrigan
Carol Corrigan
Carol Ann Corrigan is an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court.- Background :Corrigan, the daughter of a newspaperman, grew up in the San Joaquin Valley city of Stockton, California. She graduated from Saint Mary's High School in Stockton, and attended the then women-only Catholic...

 
January 4, 2006 Present Governor Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American former professional bodybuilder, actor, businessman, investor, and politician. Schwarzenegger served as the 38th Governor of California from 2003 until 2011....

Tani Cantil-Sakauye
Tani Cantil-Sakauye
Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye , a Filipina-American jurist, is the 28th Chief Justice of California. Nominated by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for California's highest judicial office on July 22, 2010, and retained in office by California voters on November 2, 2010, she was sworn in on January 3, 2011...

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January 3, 2011 Present Governor Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American former professional bodybuilder, actor, businessman, investor, and politician. Schwarzenegger served as the 38th Governor of California from 2003 until 2011....

Goodwin Liu
Goodwin Liu
Goodwin Hon Liu is an American lawyer and educator who currently serves as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California. Before his appointment by California Governor Jerry Brown, Liu was Associate Dean and Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law...

 
September 1, 2011 Present Governor J. Brown
Jerry Brown
Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr. is an American politician. Brown served as the 34th Governor of California , and is currently serving as the 39th California Governor...


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