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| Chief Justice |
Assumed Office |
| Capt. William Crispin* |
1681 |
| Dr. Nicholas Moore |
June 4, 1684 |
| James Harrison (declined) |
July 14, 1685 |
| Arthur Cook |
January 31, 1686 |
| John Simcock |
September 21, 1690 |
| Andrew Robeson |
May 29, 1692 |
* Captain Crispin was named by William Penn in a letter to William Markahm, dated London, August 18, 1681. Crispin, however, died at sea on the way to Pennsylvania. |
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| John Guest |
June 20, 1701 |
| William Clarke |
1703 |
| John Guest |
1705 |
| Roger Mempesson |
April 17, 1706 |
| Joseph Growden |
November 20, 1707 |
| David Lloyd |
February 15, 1717 |
| James Logan |
August 20, 1731 |
| Jeremiah Langhorne |
August 13, 1739 |
| John Kinsey |
April 5, 1743 |
| William Allen |
September 20, 1750 |
| Benjamin Chew |
April, 1774 |
| Thomas McKean |
July 28, 1777 |
| Edward Shippen |
December 18, 1799 |
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| William Tilghman |
March 1, 1806 |
| John Bannister Gibson |
May 18, 1827; November 19, 1838+ |
| Jeremiah S. Black |
November 17, 1851 |
| Ellis Lewis |
December 1, 1854 |
| Walter H. Lowrie |
December 7, 1857 |
| George W. Woodward |
December 7, 1863 |
| James Thompson |
December 2, 1867 |
| John Meredith Read |
December 2, 1872 |
| Daniel Agnew |
December 1, 1873 |
| George Sharswood |
January 6, 1879 |
| Ulysses Mercur |
January 1, 1883 |
| Isaac G. Gordon |
June 6, 1887 |
| Edward M. Paxson |
January 17, 1889 |
| James P. Sterrett |
February 21, 1893 |
+ Resigned in 1838 when the new constitution set term limits for judicial office, then reappointed. |
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| Henry Green |
January 1, 1900 |
| J. Brewster McCollum |
August 17, 1900 |
| James T. Mitchell |
October 5, 1903 |
| D. Newlin Fell |
January 3, 1910 |
| J. Hay Brown |
January 4, 1915 |
| Robert von Moschzisker |
January 3, 1921 |
| Robert S. Frazer |
November 24, 1930 |
| John W. Kephart |
January 6, 1936 |
| William I. Schaffer |
January 2, 1940 |
| George W. Maxey |
January 4, 1943 |
| James B. Drew |
March 21, 1950 |
| Horace Stern |
November 1, 1952 |
| Charles Alvin Jones |
December 29, 1956 |
| John C. Bell Jr. |
July 31, 1961 |
| Benjamin R. Jones |
January 3, 1972 |
| Michael J. Eagen |
March 1, 1977 |
| Henry X. O’Brien |
September 23, 1980 |
| Samuel J. Roberts |
January 3, 1983 |
| Robert N.C. Nix Jr. |
January 6, 1984 |
| John P. Flaherty Jr. |
August 1, 1996 |
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| Stephen A. Zappala |
January 1, 2002 |
| Ralph J. Cappy |
January 1, 2003 |
| Ronald D. Castille |
January 7, 2008 |
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