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==Previous Justices==
{{seealso|Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador (Court of Appeal)}}
{| class="wikitable sortable "
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Position / Name
! Appointed
! Nominated by
! Position Prior to Appointment
! Other Details
|-
| Justice Gale Welsh [http://www.releases.gov.nl.ca/releases/1996/just/0301N05.HTM] [https://web.archive.org/web/20040121162039/http://www.justice.gc.ca:80/en/news/ja/1999/nf0310.html] [https://web.archive.org/web/20030923023804/http://www.justice.gc.ca:80/en/news/ja/2001/doc_26078.html]
| March, 2001
| Chrétien
| Supreme Court (Trial Division) (March 1999 to 2001)<br> Department of Justice in Newfoundland (1989 to 1999) <br> Saskatchewan Department of Justice (1984 to 1988)<br> Called to bar (1983)
|{{publishedNLCA|Welsh}}
|-
| Justice Charles W. White [https://web.archive.org/web/20090503164927/http://www.justice.gc.ca:80/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2009/doc_32364.html] [https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/government-of-canada-announces-judicial-appointments-in-the-province-of-newfoundland-and-labrador-831645796.html]
| {{dts| April 29, 2009}} (CA)<Br>May 1, 2019 (sup)
| Harper
| White, Ottenheimer & Baker<br> Called to bar (1972)
|{{publishedNLCA|White}}
|-
| Justice J. Derek Green [https://web.archive.org/web/20031111224952/http://www.justice.gc.ca:80/en/news/ja/1996/NFLD2.html]
| 2009
| Harper
| Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (Trial Division)
|{{publishedNLCA|Green}}
|-
| Justice Michael Harrington<ref>{{cite news |title=3 lawyers appointed to Supreme Court bench |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/3-lawyers-appointed-to-supreme-court-bench-1.633165 |accessdate=30 July 2018}}</ref>
| {{dts|July 29, 2009}} (NLCA)<Br> July 2, 2018 (sup.)
| Harper
| Supreme Court (Trial Division) (2007 to 2009)<br> Private practice
|{{publishedNLCA|Harrington}}
|-
| Denis M. Roberts [https://web.archive.org/web/20040121162039/http://www.justice.gc.ca:80/en/news/ja/1999/nf0310.html]
|March 10, 1999 
|Chretien
|Supreme Court (1988)<Br>Monaghan, Seaborn, Marshall, Roberts and Howe<br>Called to bar (1971)
|{{publishedNLCA|Roberts}}
|-
| Keith J. Mercer [https://web.archive.org/web/20050424031610/http://www.justice.gc.ca:80/en/news/ja/2003/doc_30950.html] 
|2003 - ?<Br> March 1, 2009 (sup.)
|
|
|{{publishedNLCA|Mercer}}
|-
|Malcolm Rowe
|
|Chrétien
|Supreme Court (1999 to 2001)<br>Deputy Minister (1988 - 1996)<br>private practice<br>Called to bar (1978)
|{{publishedNLCA|Rowe}}
|-
|R. S. Furlong
|July 1975 to December 9, 1979
|
|Chief Justice of Supreme Court (1959 to 1975)
|{{publishedNLCA|Furlong}}
|-
|A. S. Mifflin
|December 1979 to June 19, 1995
|
|Chief Justice (1975)<br>Supreme Court (1964)<br>
|{{publishedNLCA|mifflin}}
|-
| Justice Leo Barry
| 2007<br>2009 (sup.)<br>? (ret)
| Harper
| Supreme Court (Trial Division) (June 1989 to May 2007)<br>
|{{publishedNLCA|barry}}
|-
|H. B. Morgan
|July 1975 to June 1994
|
|Supreme Court (May 1975)
|{{publishedNLCA|morgan}}
|-
|J. W. Mahoney
|February 1982 to December 2001
|
|Supreme Court (July 1975)
|{{publishedNLCA|Mahoney}}
|-
|W. W. Marshall
|November 1986 to May 2003
|
|
|{{publishedNLCA|marshall}}
|-
|Clyde K. Wells
|May 1998 to November 8, 2012
|
|
|{{publishedNLCA|wells}}
|-
|J. R. Gushue
|February 1976 to April 15, 2002
|
|
|{{publishedNLCA|gushue}}
|-
|Noel Goodridge
|November 1986 to April 15, 1997
|
|Supreme Court (1975)
|{{publishedNLCA|Goodridge}}
|-
|J.J. O’Neill:  
|1986 - Feb. 2002
|
|
|Died February 02, 2015<br>{{publishedNLCA|Neill}}
|-
|G.L. Steele
|June June 1989 to Sept. 2002
|
|July of 1975 (district)<Br>August 1977 (Chief of District)<br> Feb. 1982 (Trial)
|{{publishedNLCA|Steele}}
|-
|Margaret A. Cameron
|May 1992 to May 2010
|
|Sept 1983 (Trial)<Br> 
|
|-
|Denis M. Roberts
|March 1999 (NLCA)<br>March 1, 2007 (sup)<br> July 30, 2010 (ret)
|
|Trial Division of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland in July of 1988
|{{publishedNLCA|Roberts}}
|-
|Keith Mercer
|July 2003 (NLCA)<br>April 2009 (sup)
|
|Supreme Court (May 1992 - July 2003)
|Died August 15, 2015<Br>{{publishedNLCA|Mercer}}
|}

==List of Chief Justices==
Source (1791–1880):<ref>{{cite book|title=A History of Newfoundland from the English, Colonial and Foreign Records| first = D.W.|last= Prowse|page= 662}}</ref>

Court of Civil Jurisdiction founded 1791<ref>http://www.heritage.nf.ca/lawfoundation/articles/doc5_1791judicature.html</ref> <br> Supeme Court of Judicature of the Island of Newfoundland founded 1792<ref>http://www.heritage.nf.ca/lawfoundation/articles/doc6_1792judicature.html</ref> <br> Supreme Court of Newfoundland founded 1824<ref>http://www.heritage.nf.ca/lawfoundation/articles/doc7_1824judicature.html</ref> <br> Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador Court of Appeal founded 1975.

{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! No
! Name
! Appointed
! Position prior to Appointment
! Notes
|-
| 24
| J. Derek Green
| 27 Mar 2009
| 
| Became a Supernumerary Justice on 1 December 2017<ref>[http://www.thetelegram.com/news/local/chief-justice-derek-green-stepping-down-in-december-25383/ Chief Justice Derek Green stepping down in December]</ref>
|-
| 23
| Clyde Wells [https://web.archive.org/web/20031111225737/http://www.justice.gc.ca:80/en/news/ja/1998/nf0527.html]
| 1999
| Court of Appeal <br> Member of legislature (1966 to 1995)<br> Called to bar (1963)
| to 2009
|-
| 22
| James R. Gushue
| 1996
|
| to 1998
|-
| 21
| Noel Goodridge <ref>http://www.lewisday.ca/ldlf_files/Anecdotal/anecdotal.pdf</ref>
| 17 Nov 1986
|
| 
|-
| 20
| Arthur Samuel Mifflin
| 1979
| Chief Justice Trials Division
| 
|-
| 19
| Robert Stafford Furlong <ref>http://www.lewisday.ca/ldlf_files/Anecdotal/anecdotal.pdf</ref>
| 1958
|
| 
|-
| 18
| Sir Albert Joseph Walsh <ref>http://www.lewisday.ca/ldlf_files/Anecdotal/anecdotal.pdf</ref>
| Sep 1949
| 1st Lieutenant-Governor
|
|-
| 17
| Sir Lewis Edward Emerson
| 1944
| Commissioner for Defence
| 
|-
| 16
| Sir William Henry Horwood 
| 25 July 1902
| Minister of Justice and Attorney-General
| 
|-
| 15
| Sir Joseph Ignatius Little <ref>http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/nfldhistory/Newfoundland%20biographies%20K-P.htm</ref>
| 1898
| Judge
| 
|-
| 14
| Sir Frederick Bowker Terrington Carter 
| 20 May 1880
| Prime Minister of Newfoundland
| 
|-
| 13
| Sir Hugh William Hoyles
| 4 March 1865
| Prime Minister and Attorney General
|
|-
| 12
| Sir Francis Brady
| 29 Nov 1847
|
|
|-
| 11
| Thomas Norton
| 5 Nov 1844
|
|
|-
| 10
| John Gervase Hutchinson Bourne
| 1838
|
| Removed from office, 1844
|-
| 9
| Henry John Boulton
| 1833
| Attorney General of Upper Canada
| Removed from office, 1844
|-
| 8
| Richard Alexander Tucker
| 1 Oct 1822
|
|
|-
| 7
| Sir Francis Forbes
| 4 Aug 1816
| Crown Law Officer in Bermuda
| left to be the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
|-
| 6
| Caesar Colclough
| 
1813
| Chief Justice of Prince Edward Island
|
|-
| 5
| Thomas Tremlett
| 1804
| Naval Officer
| Exchanged for Colclough, 1813
|-
| 4
| Jonathan Ogden
| 1803
| Naval Officer
|
|-
| 3
| Richard Routh
| 1797
| Collector of Customs
| Drowned at sea
|-
| 2
| D'Ewes Coke
| 1793
| Naval surgeon
|
|-
| 1
| John Reeves
| 1791
| Law Clerk to the Board of Trade
| Sole judge; author of the Judicature Acts of 1791 and 1792
|}