The following is a list of justices of the Delaware Supreme Court. From 1772 to 1950, Delaware did not have appointed Supreme Court justices. Instead, appeals from intermediate appellate determinations were taken to "The High Court of Errors and Appeals" – a panel made up of the state Chancellor, and all judges of the "Supreme Court" and of the Courts of Common Pleas who had not previously been involved with the case; under that system, the sole "Supreme Court" justice was the chief justice of Delaware.

In 1950, Delaware created a new state Supreme Court, with three judges appointed by the governor.

Colonial Supreme Court of the Lower Counties

Chief justices

JudgeBegan active
service
Ended active
service
Notes
William Clarke16841707Also a justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
Jasper Yeates17071710
John Healey17101714
Richard Birmingham17141717
Jasper Yeates17171720
John French17261727
David Evans17271741
Samuel Chew17411743
William Till17431745
Ryves Holt17451764
John Vining17641770
Richard McWilliam Jr.17731777

Associate justices

JudgeBegan active
service
Ended active
service
Notes
Arthur Cook16901699
Berkeley Codd1710after 1723
Richard Birmingham17131717Chief Justice from 1714 to 1717
Jehu Curtis17431753
Nicholas Ridgely17461755

Chief justices of the High Court of Errors and Appeals (1777–1951)

JudgeBegan active
service
Ended active
service
William Killen17771793
Richard Bassett17931793
George Read17931798
Kensey Johns17991799
James Booth Sr.17991828
Thomas Clayton18281830
Samuel Maxwell Harrington18301837
John M. Clayton18371839
Richard H. Bayard18391841
James Booth Jr.18411855
Samuel Maxwell Harrington18551857
Edward Gilpin18571876
Joseph P. Comegys18761893
Charles B. Lore18931909
James Pennewill19091933
Daniel J. Layton19331945
Charles S. Richards19451951

Justices of the Delaware Supreme Court (1951–present)

JudgeBegan active
service
Ended active
service
Term as chief justice
Clarence A. Southerland195119631951–1963
James M. Tunnell Jr.19511954
Daniel F. Wolcott195119731964–1973
Howard W. Bramhall19541962
Charles L. Terry Jr.196219641963–1964
James B. Carey19631974
Daniel L. Herrmann196519851973–1985
William Duffy19731982
John J. McNeilly Jr.19741986
Henry R. Horsey19781994
William T. Quillen19781983
Andrew G. T. Moore II19821994
Andrew D. Christie198319921985–1992
Randy J. Holland19862017
Joseph T. Walsh19852003
E. Norman Veasey199220041992–2004
Carolyn Berger19942014
Maurice A. Hartnett III19942000
Myron T. Steele200020142004–2014
Jack B. Jacobs20032014
Henry du Pont Ridgely20042015
Leo E. Strine Jr.201420192014–2019
Karen L. Valihura2014present
James T. Vaughn Jr.20142023
Collins J. Seitz Jr.2015present2019–present
Gary Traynor2017present
Tamika Montgomery-Reeves20192023
N. Christopher Griffiths2023present
Abigail LeGrow2023present

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