Justices in Chronological Order
(The names of the current Justices are printed in Bold)
(Those serving as Chief Justice have an asterisk*)
- Dates of Service Listing - Listing of dates of service of all justices
- Chief Justices of Florida - Listing of justices who served as chief justice with terms of service and county of origin
Information about merit retention elections or mandatory retirement is provided for sitting Justices.
- Thomas Douglas* 1846-1850 & 1854-1855
- Thomas Baltzell* 1846-1850 & 1854-1860
- George S. Hawkins 1846-1850
- George W. MacRae 1847
- Joseph B. Lancaster 1848-1853
- Walker Anderson* 1851-1853
- Leslie A. Thompson 1851-1853
- Albert G. Semmes 1851-1853
- Benjamin D. Wright* 1853
- Charles H. DuPont* 1854-1868
- Bird M. Pearson 1856-1859
- William A. Forward 1860-1865
- David S. Walker 1860-1865
- Augustus E. Maxwell* 1865-1866 & 1887-1890
- James M. Baker 1865-1868
- Samuel J. Douglas 1866-1868
- Edwin M. Randall* 1868-1885
- Ossian B. Hart 1868-1873
- James D. Westcott, Jr. 1868-1885
- Franklin D. Fraser 1873-1874
- Robert Van Valkenburgh 1874-1888
- George G. McWhorter* 1885-1887
- George P. Raney* 1885-1894
- Henry L. Mitchell 1888-1891
- R. Fenwick Taylor* 1891-1925
- Milton H. Mabry* 1891-1903
- Benjamin S. Liddon* 1894-1896
- Francis B. Carter 1897-1905
- Thomas M. Shackleford* 1902-1917
- Robert S. Cockrell 1902-1917
- Evelyn C. Maxwell 1902-1904
- William A. Hocker 1903-1915
- James B. Whitfield* 1904-1943
- Charles B. Parkhill 1905-1911
- William H. Ellis* 1915-1938
- Jefferson B. Browne* 1917-1925
- Thomas F. West* 1917-1925
- William Glenn Terrell* 1923-1964
- Armstead Brown* 1925-1946
- Louie W. Strum* 1925-1931
- Rivers H. Buford* 1925-1948
- Fred H. Davis* 1931-1937
- Roy H. Chapman* 1937-1952
- Elwyn Thomas* 1938-1969
- Alto Adams* 1940-1951 & 1967-1968
- H.L. Sebring* 1943-1955
- Paul D. Barns 1946-1949
- T. Frank Hobson* 1948-1962
- B.K. Roberts* 1949-1976
- John E. Mathews* 1951-1955
- E. Harris Drew* 1952-1971
- B. Campbell Thornal* 1955-1970
- Stephen C. O'Connell* 1955-1967
- Millard F. Caldwell* 1962-1969
- Richard W. Ervin* 1964-1975
- Wade L. Hopping 1968-1969
- Vassar B. Carlton* 1969-1974
- James C. Adkins* 1969-1987
- Joseph A. Boyd, Jr.* 1969-1987
- David L. McCain 1970-1975
- Hal P. Dekle 1971-1975
- Ben F. Overton* 1974-1999
- Arthur J. England, Jr.* 1975-1981
- Alan C. Sundberg* 1975-1982
- Joseph W. Hatchett 1975-1979
- Frederick B. Karl 1977-1978
- James E. Alderman* 1978-1985
- Parker Lee McDonald* 1979-1994
- Raymond Ehrlich* 1981-1991
- Leander J. Shaw, Jr.* 1983-2003
- Rosemary Barkett* 1985-1994
- Stephen H. Grimes* 1987-1997
- Gerald Kogan* 1987-1998
- Major B. Harding* 1991-2002
- Charles T. Wells* 1994-2009
- Harry Lee Anstead* 1994-2009
- Barbara J. Pariente* 1997-2019
- R. Fred Lewis* 1999-2019
- Peggy A. Quince*1999-2019
- Raoul G. Cantero 2002-2008
- Kenneth B. Bell 2003-2008
- Charles T. Canady* 2008-present; Merit retention 2022
- Ricky Polston* 2008-2023
- Jorge Labarga* 2009-present; Merit retention 2022
- James E.C. Perry 2009-2016
- Alan Lawson 2016-2022
- Barbara Lagoa 2019-2019
- Robert J. Luck 2019-2019
- Carlos G. Muñiz* 2019-present; Merit retention vote 2026
- John D. Couriel 2020-present; Merit retention 2022
- Jamie R. Grosshans 2020-present; Merit retention 2022
- Renatha Francis 2022-present; Merit retention vote 2024
- Meredith L. Sasso 2023-present; Merit retention vote 2024
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