Chief Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court from 1692 to the present 1
| William Stoughton |
1692 - 1701 |
| Waitstill Winthrop |
1701 |
| Isaac Addington |
1702 - 1703 |
| Waitstill Winthrop |
1708 - 1717 |
| Samuel Sewall |
1718 - 1728 |
| Benjamin Lynde, Sr. |
1729 - 1745 |
| Paul Dudley |
1745 - 1751 |
| Stephen Sewall |
1752 - 1760 |
| Thomas Hutchinson |
1761 - 1769 |
| Benjamin Lynde, Jr. |
1769 - 1771 |
| Peter Oliver |
1772 - 1775 |
| John Adams |
1775 - 1777 |
| William Cushing |
1777 - 1789 |
| Nathaniel Peaslee Sargeant |
1790 - 1791 |
| Francis Dana |
1792 - 1806 |
| Theophilus Parsons |
1806 - 1813 |
| Samuel Sewall |
1813 - 1814 |
| Isaac Parker |
1814 - 1830 |
| Lemuel Shaw |
1830 - 1860 |
| George Tyler Bigelow |
1860 - 1868 |
| Reuben Atwater Chapman |
1868 - 1873 |
| Horace Gray |
1873 - 1882 |
| Marcus Morton |
1882 - 1890 |
| Waldridge Abner Field |
1890 - 1899 |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |
1899 - 1902 |
| Marcus Perrin Knowlton |
1902 - 1911 |
| Arthur Prentice Rugg |
1911 - 1938 |
| Fred Tarbell Field |
1938 - 1947 |
| Stanley Elroy Qua |
1947 - 1956 |
| Raymond Sanger Wilkins |
1956 - 1970 |
| G. Joseph Tauro |
1970 - 1976 |
| Edward F. Hennessey |
1976 - 1989 |
| Paul J. Liacos |
1989 - 1996 |
| Herbert P. Wilkins |
1996 - 1999 |
| Margaret H. Marshall |
1999 - |
1 This table was compiled by Robert Bloom, Esq.
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