Chief Justices

• Capt. William Crispin
  William Crispin
  Captain William Crispin was one of five Commissioners appointed by William Penn for settling his colony of Pennsylvania, September 30, 1681. He had served in the army under Cromwell. Crispin was also appointed Surveyor General...
  
  , appointed Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   by William Penn in 1684 but died at sea on the way to Philadelphia.
• Dr. Nicholas Moore, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1684
• William Clarke, 1684, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1703
• Arthur Cooke, 1685, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1686
• John Simcock, 1686, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1690
• Joseph Growden, 1690, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1707
• John Guest, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1701
• John Guest, 1704, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1705
• Roger Mempesson, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1706
• David Lloyd
  David Lloyd (judge)
  David Lloyd was an American lawyer and politician from colonial Chester, Pennsylvania. He was William Penn's personal lawyer, Attorney General of Pennsylvania and a member of the Popular or Quaker party who served in the Pennsylvania General Assembly, including six terms as its Speaker...
  
  , Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1717
• Jeremiah Langhorne
  Jeremiah Langhorne
  Jeremiah Langhorne was a prominent landowner and jurist in colonial Pennsylvania. He is the namesake of present-day Langhorne, Pennsylvania, which adopted his name in 1876, and neighboring Langhorne Manor....
  
  , 1726, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1739
• James Logan
  James Logan (statesman)
  James Logan , a statesman and scholar, was born in Lurgan, County Armagh, Ireland of Scottish descent and Quaker parentage. In 1689, the Logan family moved to Bristol, England where, in 1693, James replaced his father as schoolmaster...
  
  , Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1731
• William Allen
  William Allen (loyalist)
  William Allen was a wealthy merchant, Chief Justice of the Province of Pennsylvania, and mayor of Philadelphia. At the time of the American Revolution, Allen was one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in Philadelphia...
  
  , Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1750
• Benjamin Chew
  Benjamin Chew
  Benjamin Chew was a third-generation American, a Quaker-born legal scholar, a prominent and successful Philadelphia lawyer, head of the Pennsylvania Judiciary System under both Colony and Commonwealth, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Province of Pennsylvania...
  
  , Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1774
• Thomas McKean
  Thomas McKean
  Thomas McKean was an American lawyer and politician from New Castle, in New Castle County, Delaware and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During the American Revolution he was a delegate to the Continental Congress where he signed the United States Declaration of Independence and the Articles of...
  
  , appointed Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1777, elected 1784 and 1791
• Edward Shippen (III)
  Edward Shippen (III)
  Edward Shippen was a lawyer, judge, government official, and prominent figure in colonial and post-revolutionary Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
  
  , 1791, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1799
• William Bradford Jr.
  William Bradford (1755-1795)
  William Bradford was a lawyer and judge from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the second United States Attorney General in 1794-1795.He was the son of the printer William Bradford and was born in Philadelphia...
  
  , 1791
• William Tilghman
  William Tilghman
  William Tilghman was an American lawyer, jurist and statesman from Maryland. He served as the Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court from 1805 to 1827....
  
  , Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1806
• John Bannister Gibson
  John Bannister Gibson
  John Bannister Gibson was a Pennsylvania attorney and judge.-Early life:Born in Perry County, Pennsylvania, Gibson was named for John Banister, a Virginia hero of the American Revolution. Gibson's father, George Gibson, also fought in the war and remained in service after its end...
  
  , 1816, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1838
• Jeremiah S. Black
  Jeremiah S. Black
  Jeremiah Sullivan Black was an American statesman and lawyer. He was the son of Representative Henry Black, and the father of writer and Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania Chauncey Forward Black....
  
  , Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1851
• Ellis Lewis, 1851, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1855
• Walter H. Lowrie
  Walter H. Lowrie
  Water Hoge Lowrie was a Pennsylvania jurist.He was born in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, son of Walter Lowrie, and nephew of Senator Walter Lowrie. He became a lawyer, serving as a district judge in Pennsylvania from 1846 to 1851...
  
  , 1851, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1857
• George W. Woodward, 1852, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1863
• James Thompson
  James Thompson (jurist)
  James Thompson was a politician and jurist from Pennsylvania.Thompson was born in Middlesex Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania on October 1, 1806. After learning the printing trade, Thompson studied law...
  
  , 1857, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1867
• John M. Read
  John M. Read
  John Meredith Read was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was one of the founders of the Republican Party and Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.-Early life:...
  
  , 1858, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1872
• Daniel Agnew, 1863, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1873
• George Sharswood
  George Sharswood
  George Sharswood was a Pennsylvania jurist and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.Sharswood was born in...
  
  , 1867, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1879
• Ulysses Mercur
  Ulysses Mercur
  Ulysses Mercur was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.-Early life and education:...
  
  , 1872, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1883
• Isaac G. Gordon, 1873, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1887
• Edward M. Paxson, 1875, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1889
• James P. Sterrett, 1877, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1893
• Henry Green, 1879, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1900
• J. Brewster McCollum, 1888, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1900
• James T. Mitchell, 1888, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1903
• D. Newlin Fell, 1894, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1910
• J. Hay Brown, 1899, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1915
• Robert von Moschzisker, 1910, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1921
• Robert S. Frazer, 1915, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1930
• John W. Kephart, 1919, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1936
• William I. Schaffer, 1920, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1940
• George W. Maxey, 1930, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1943
• James B. Drew, 1931, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1950
• Horace Stern
  Horace Stern
  Horace Stern was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania from 1 November 1952 to 29 December 1956. He was elevated to the Chief Justice position after serving on the Court from 6 January 1936....
  
  , 1936, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1952
• Charles Alvin Jones
  Charles Alvin Jones
  Charles Alvin Jones was a United States federal judge and a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania....
  
  , 1945, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1956
• John C. Bell
  John C. Bell, Jr.
  John Cromwell Bell, Jr. was a Pennsylvania politician and judge.He served as Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, 1943–47, and the 33rd Governor briefly in 1947, succeeding Edward Martin, who had resigned to take a seat in the United States Senate...
  
  , 1950, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1961
• Benjamin R. Jones, 1957, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1972
• Michael J. Eagen, 1960, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1977
• Henry X. O'Brien, 1962, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1980
• Robert N. C. Nix, Jr.
  Robert N. C. Nix, Jr.
  Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix, Jr. served as the Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court from 1984 to 1996. Nix was the first African American Chief Justice of any state’s highest court, and the first African American to be elected to statewide office in Pennsylvania...
  
  , 1972, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1986
• John P. Flaherty Jr., 1979, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1996
• Samuel J. Roberts, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1983
• Ralph J. Cappy
  Ralph J. Cappy
  Ralph J. Cappy was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania from 1990 to 1998 and Chief Justice of the Court from 1998 to 2008....
  
  , 1990, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   1998
• Ronald D. Castille
  Ronald D. Castille
  Ronald D. Castille is the Chief Justice of Pennsylvania. He was the District Attorney of the City of Philadelphia from 1986 until 1991 and is a member of the Republican Party...
  
  , 1994, Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   2008

Other justices

• Anthony Morris
  Anthony Morris (I)
  Anthony Morris, Jr. was a brewer, Quaker preacher, judge, and mayor of Philadelphia....
  
  , 1694
• Edward Shippen
  Edward Shippen
  Edward Shippen was the second mayor of Philadelphia. He was appointed to a one year term by William Penn in 1701. In 1702, he was elected to a second one year term, making him the first elected mayor of Philadelphia...
  
  , circa 1699
• Caleb Pusey
  Caleb Pusey
  Caleb Pusey, formally Caleb Bartholomew, was a lastmaker and a friend and business partner of William Penn, the founder of the colony of Pennsylvania. Pusey came to the colony to manage Chester Mills for Penn...
  
  , 1701
• William Trent, 1704
• Richard Hill
  Richard Hill (politician)
  Richard Hill was a seaman, merchant, and mayor of Philadelphia.In early life, Hill followed the sea, and up to 1704 he was known as "Captain Hill"...
  
  , 1711
• Thomas Griffitts
  Thomas Griffitts
  Thomas Griffitts was Mayor of Philadelphia on three occasions.Griffitts was born in Cork, Ireland and emigrated to Philadelphia via Jamaica. He was a provincial councillor from 1733 to 1742. He was Mayor of Philadelphia in 1729-1731, 1733–1734, and 1737-1738...
  
  , 1739
• Thomas Willing
  Thomas Willing
  Thomas Willing was an American merchant and financier and a Delegate to the Continental Congress from Pennsylvania....
  
  , 1767
• John Morton
  John Morton (politician)
  John Morton was a farmer, surveyor, and jurist from the Province of Pennsylvania. As a delegate to the Continental Congress during the American Revolution, he provided the swing vote that allowed Pennsylvania to vote in favor of the United States Declaration of Independence...
  
  , 1774
• William Augustus Atlee
  William Augustus Atlee
  William Augustus Atlee was a Judge of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and a University of Pennsylvania Trustee 1779-1786.Atlee was born in Philadelphia on July 1, 1735. He later moved to Lancaster County where he read law with Edward Shippen, Esq....
  
  , 1777
• John Evans, 1777
• George Bryan
  George Bryan
  George Bryan was a Pennsylvania businessman, statesman and politician of the Revolutionary era. He served as the first Vice-President of Pennsylvania and its second President following the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain...
  
  , 1787
• William Bradford Jr.
  William Bradford (1755-1795)
  William Bradford was a lawyer and judge from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the second United States Attorney General in 1794-1795.He was the son of the printer William Bradford and was born in Philadelphia...
  
  , 1791
• Thomas Smith, 1794
• Hugh Henry Brackenridge
  Hugh Henry Brackenridge
  Hugh Henry Brackenridge was an American writer, lawyer, judge, and justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.A frontier citizen in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, he founded both the Pittsburgh Academy, now the University of Pittsburgh, and the Pittsburgh Gazette, still operating today as the...
  
  , 1800
• John Tod
  John Tod
  John Tod was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.John Tod was born in Hartford, Connecticut. He attended the common schools and Yale College. He moved to Bedford, Pennsylvania, in 1800, and taught school while studying law. He was admitted to the bar in 1803 and...
  
  , 1827
• Frederick Smith, 1828
• John Ross
  John Ross (representative)
  John Ross , was a Representative to the U.S. Congress from Pennsylvania....
  
  , 1830
• Thomas Burnside
  Thomas Burnside
  Thomas Burnside was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and associate justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania....
  
  , 1845
• Richard Coulter, appointed 1846, elected 1847
• George Chambers
  George Chambers (Pennsylvania)
  George Chambers was a Anti-Masonic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.George Chambers was born in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania...
  
  , 1851
• John C. Knox
  John C. Knox
  John Clark Knox was a Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.-Biography:...
  
  , 1853
• James Armstrong, 1857
• William Strong
  William Strong (judge)
  William Strong was an American jurist and politician. He was a justice on the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States.-Early life:...
  
  , 1857
• S.L. Mestrezat
  S.L. Mestrezat
  S.L. Mestrezat was a Democratic Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. He was elected in 1901, and was from Uniontown, Pennsylvania-References:...
  
  , 1900
• Michael A. Musmanno, 1952
• Herbert B. Cohen
  Herbert B. Cohen
  Herbert B. Cohen was an American lawyer from York County, Pennsylvania. He attended the University of Pennsylvania where he received his Bacceleureate degree. He later became a lawyer and was appointed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 1957....
  
  , 1957
• Curtis Bok
  Curtis Bok
  William Curtis Bok was a Pennsylvania jurist, philanthropist and writer. Heir to an enormous fortune, he was also a devout Quaker and an avid sailor.-Biography:...
  
  , 1958
• Rolf Larsen
  Rolf Larsen
  Rolf Larsen a Democrat originally from Allegheny County, was first elected to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 1978.In 1981, a public feud between Larsen and Justice Robert N. C. Nix, Jr. took on racial undertones when newspapers reported that Larsen allegedly threatened to publicize the fact...
  
  , 1978 (impeached and removed from office, 1994)
• Russell M. Nigro
  Russell M. Nigro
  Russell M. Nigro was first elected to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania on the Democratic ticket in 1995. He ran for retention in 2005 but failed to earn a majority of "YES" votes, thus making him the first Supreme Court Justice to lose a retention vote since such elections were first held in...
  
  , 1996 (defeated for retention, 2005)
• Cynthia A. Baldwin, (appointed by Governor Rendell, 2006)
• James J. Fitzgerald III, (appointed by Governor Rendell, 2007)
• Jane Cutler Greenspan, (appointed by Governor Rendell, 2008)