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 Justice

 Assumed Office

 William Welsh

 June 4, 1684

 William Wood

 June 4, 1684

 Robert Turner  June 4, 1684
 John Eckley  June 4, 1684
 William Clarke  July 10, 1684
 James Clapoole  July 14, 1685
 Arthur Cooke  July 14, 1685
 John Simcock

 January 20, 1686

 James Harrison  January 20, 1686
 John Cann  January 31, 1686
 Joseph Growden  February 2, 1690
 Peter Alricks  May 7, 1690
 Thomas Wynne  May 7, 1690
 Griffith Jones  September 21, 1690
 Edward Blake  September 21, 1690
 William Salway  May 20, 1693
 Anthony Morris  August 10, 1694
 Cornelius Empston  About 1698
 Edward Shippen  About 1699
 William Biles  About 1699
   
 Robert French  June 20, 1701
 Caleb Pusey  June 20, 1701
 Thomas Masters  June 20, 1701
 Samuel Finney  1702
 John Guest  April 10, 1704
 Jasper Yates  April 10, 1704
 William Trent  April 10, 1704
 Richard Hill  March 16, 1711
 Jonathan Dickinson  March 16, 1711
 George Roche  June 10, 1715
 Robert Assheton  June 12, 1716
 Jeremiah Langhorne  September 20, 1726
 Dr. Thomas Graeme  April 9, 1731
 Thomas Griffits  August 13, 1739
 William Till  April 5, 1743
 Lawrence Growden  September 20, 1750
 Caleb Cowpland  September 20, 1750
 William Coleman  April 8, 1758
 Alexander Steadman  March 21, 1764
 John Lawrence  September 14, 1767
 Thomas Willing  September 14, 1767
 John Morton  April 20, 1774
 William Augustus Atlee  April 2, 1777
 John Evans  August 19, 1777
 George Bryan  April 5, 1780
 Jacob Rush  February 26, 1784
 George Bryan  April 4, 1787
 Edward Shippen  January 31, 1791
 Jasper Yates  March 21, 1791
 William Bradford Jr.  August 20, 1791
 Thomas Smith  January 3, 1794
   
 Hugh Henry Brackenridge  December 18, 1800
 John Bannister Gibson  June 27, 1816
 Thomas Duncan  March 14, 1817
 Morton Cropper Rogers  April 15, 1826
 Charles Huston  April 17, 1826
 John Tod  May 25, 1827
 Frederick Smith  January 31, 1828
 John Ross  April 9, 1830
 John Kennedy  November 23, 1830
 Thomas Sergeant  February 3, 1834
 Thomas Burnside  January 2, 1845
 Richard Coulter  September 17, 1846
 Thomas S. Bell  November 10, 1846
 George Chambers  April 10, 1851
 Ellis Lewis  December 1, 1851
 Walter H. Lowrie  December 1, 1851
 George W. Woodward  May 8, 1852
 John C. Knox  May 23, 1853
 Jeremiah S. Black  December 4, 1854
 James Armstrong  April 6, 1857
 James Thompson  December 7, 1857
 William Strong  December 7, 1857
 William A. Porter  January 20, 1858
 Gaylord Church  October 22, 1858
 John M. Read  December 6, 1858
 Daniel Agnew  December 7, 1863
 George Sharswood  December 2, 1867
 Henry W. Williams  October 1, 1868
 Ulysses Mercur  December 2, 1872
 Isaac G. Gordon  December 8, 1873
 Edward M. Paxson  January 4, 1875
 Warren I. Woodward  January 4, 1875
 James P. Sterrett  February 26, 1877
 John Trunkey  December 6, 1877
 James P. Sterrett  December 6, 1878
 Henry Green  September 29, 1879
 Henry Green  December 2, 1880
 Silas M. Clark  December 21, 1882
 Henry W. Williams  August 19, 1887
 Henry W. Williams  December 22, 1887
 Alfred Hand  July 31, 1888
 J. Brewster McCollum  December 18, 1888
 James T. Mitchell  December 18, 1888
 Christopher Heydrick  November 28, 1891
 John Dean  December 19, 1892
 Samuel Gustine Thompson  March 3, 1893
 D. Newlin Fell  January 1, 1894
 J. Hay Brown  September 25, 1899
   
 J. Hay Brown  January 1, 1900
 S. Leslie Mestrezat  January 1, 1900
 William P. Potter  September 25, 1899
 William P. Potter  January 6, 1902
 Samuel Gustine Thompson  November 25, 1903
 John P. Elkin  January 2, 1905
 John Stewart  June 8, 1905
 John Stewart  January 1, 1906
 Robert von Moschzisker  January 3, 1910
 Robert S. Frazer  January 4, 1915
 Emory A. Walling  January 3, 1916
 Emory A. Walling  January 1, 1917
 Alexander Simpson Jr.  May 20, 1918
 Alexander Simpson Jr.  January 6, 1919
 Edward J. Fox  June 17, 1918
 John W. Kephart  January 6, 1919
 Sylvester B. Sadler  January 3, 1921
 William I. Schaffer  December 14, 1920
 William I. Schaffer  January 2, 1922
 George W. Maxey  November 24, 1930
 James B. Drew  September 28, 1931
 William B. Linn  February 23, 1932
 William B. Linn  January 2, 1933
 Horace Stern  January 6, 1936
 H. Edgar Barnes  August 12, 1935
 Marion D. Patterson  January 2, 1940
 William M. Parker  December 13, 1941
 Allen M. Stearne  December 24, 1942
 Howard W. Hughes  December 30, 1943
 Charles Alvin Jones  January 3, 1945
 John C. Bell  March 24, 1950
 Grover C. Ladner  July 6, 1950
 Thomas McKeen Chidsey  July 6, 1950
 Michal A. Musmanno  January 7, 1952
 John C. Arnold  January 5, 1953
 Benjamin R. Jones  January 7, 1957
 Herbert B. Cohen  January 7, 1957
 Thomas D. McBride  December 6, 1958
 Curtis Bok  January 1959
 Michael J. Eagen  January 5, 1960
 Anne X. Alpern  September 6, 1961
 Henry X. O'Brien  January 1, 1962
 Earl S. Keim  August 30, 1962
 Samuel J. Roberts  January 8, 1963
 Thomas W. Pomeroy Jr.  December 30, 1968
 Alexander F. Barbieri  January 4, 1971
 Robert N. C. Nix Jr.  January 3, 1972
 Louis L. Manderino  January 3, 1972
 Israel Packel  June 1, 1977
 Rolf Larsen  January 5, 1978
 John P. Flaherty Jr.  June 15, 1979
 Bruce W. Kauffman  February 29, 1980
 Roy Wilkinson Jr.  March 19, 1981
 William D. Hutchinson  January 4, 1982
 James T. McDermott  January 4, 1982
 Stephen A. Zappala  January. 3, 1983
 Nicholas P. Papadakos  January 2, 1984
 Juanita Kidd Stout  February 25, 1988
 Ralph J. Cappy  January 1, 1990
 Frank J. Montemuro Jr.  November 17, 1992
 Ronald D. Castille  January 3, 1994
 Russell M. Nigro  January 1, 1996
 Sandra Schultz Newman  January 1, 1996
 Thomas G. Saylor  January 5, 1998
   
 J. Michael Eakin  January 6, 2002
 William H. Lamb  January 29, 2003
 Max Baer  January 5, 2004
 Cynthia A. Baldwin  February 15, 2006
 James J. Fitzgerald III  March 28, 2007
 Debra Todd  January 7, 2008
 Seamus P. McCaffery  January 7, 2008
 Jane Cutler Greenspan  July 2, 2008