All Australian High Court Justices Ever

Can you name every justice to have served on the High Court of Australia?

Asterisks indicate justices who also served as Chief Justice

One justice resigned without ever sitting on the bench

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	Years	Appointed by	State	Justices
1*	1903 – 1919	Deakin	Qld	Samuel Griffith
2	1903 – 1920	Deakin	NSW	Edmund Barton
3	1903 – 1912	Deakin	NSW	Richard O'Connor
4*	1906 – 1931	Deakin	Vic.	Isaac Isaacs
5	1906 – 1929	Deakin	Vic.	H. B. Higgins
6*	1913 – 1935	Fisher	Vic.	Frank Gavan Duffy
7	1913 – 1929	Fisher	Qld	Charles Powers
8	1913	Fisher	NSW	Albert Piddington
9	1913 – 1950	Fisher	NSW	George Rich
10*	1919 – 1930	Hughes	NSW	Adrian Knox
11	1920 – 1950	Hughes	Vic.	Hayden Starke
12*	1929 – 1964	Bruce	Vic.	Owen Dixon
13	1930 – 1940	Scullin	NSW	H. V. Evatt
14	1930 – 1976	Scullin	NSW	Edward McTiernan
15*	1935 – 1952	Lyons	Vic.	John Latham
16	1940 – 1958	Menzies	NSW	Dudley Williams
17	1946 – 1958	Chifley	Qld	William Webb
18	1950 – 1961	Menzies	Vic.	Wilfred Fullagar
19	1950 – 1970	Menzies	NSW	Frank Kitto
20	1952 – 1969	Menzies	NSW	Alan Taylor
21	1958 – 1974	Menzies	Vic.	Douglas Menzies
22	1958 – 1972	Menzies	NSW	Victor Windeyer
23	1961 – 1972	Menzies	NSW	William Owen
24*	1964 – 1981	Menzies	NSW	Garfield Barwick
25	1969 – 1973	Gorton	NSW	Cyril Walsh
26*	1970 – 1987	Gorton	Qld	Harry Gibbs
27	1972 – 1982	McMahon	Vic.	Ninian Stephen
28*	1972 – 1995	McMahon	NSW	Anthony Mason
29	1974 – 1979	Whitlam	NSW	Kenneth Jacobs
30	1975 – 1986	Whitlam	NSW	Lionel Murphy
31	1976 – 1982	Fraser	Vic.	Keith Aickin
32	1979 – 1989	Fraser	WA	Ronald Wilson
33*	1981 – 1998	Fraser	Qld	Gerard Brennan
34	1982 – 1995	Fraser	NSW	William Deane
35	1982 – 1997	Fraser	Vic.	Daryl Dawson
36	1987 – 1998	Hawke	WA	John Toohey
37	1987 – 2003	Hawke	NSW	Mary Gaudron
38	1989 – 2005	Hawke	NSW	Michael McHugh
39	1995 – 2012	Keating	NSW	William Gummow
40	1996 – 2009	Keating	NSW	Michael Kirby
41	1997 – 2015	Howard	Vic.	Kenneth Hayne
42	1998 – 2007	Howard	Qld	Ian Callinan
43*	1998 – 2008	Howard	NSW	Murray Gleeson
44	2003 – 2013	Howard	NSW	Dyson Heydon
45	2005 – 2015	Howard	Vic.	Susan Crennan
46*	2007 –	Howard	Qld	Susan Kiefel
47*	2008 – 2017	Rudd	WA	Robert French
48	2009 – 2021	Rudd	NSW	Virginia Bell
49	2012 –	Gillard	NSW	Stephen Gageler
50	2013 – 2022	Gillard	Qld	Patrick Keane
51	2015 – 2020	Abbott	Vic.	Geoffrey Nettle
52	2015 –	Abbott	Vic.	Michelle Gordon
53	2017 –	Turnbull	WA	James Edelman
54	2020 –	Morrison	Vic.	Simon Steward
55	2021 –	Morrison	NSW	Jacqueline Gleeson
56	2022 –	Albanese	NSW	Jayne Jagot