This is a list of Judges of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory

Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory

The Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory is the superior court for the ACT. It has unlimited jurisdiction within the territory in civil matters , and hears the most serious criminal matters...

. This list includes Chief Justices, Judges, Acting Judges and Additional Judges.

Chief Justices

Before 7 May 1982, Chief Justices were referred to as Chief Judges.

Name	Term as Chief Justice
Russell Walter Fox Russell Walter Fox Russell Walter Fox AC QC LLB is an Australian author, educator, jurist and former chief judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory. He is best known for his extensive report on uranium mining in Australia in the early 1980s....	1 February 1977 – 3 November 1977
Sir Richard Arthur Blackburn	7 November 1977 – 31 March 1985
Jeffrey Miles Jeffrey Miles Jeffrey Allan Miles AO LLM BA is an Australian author and jurist. He is a former chief justice of the Australian Capital Territory. He has also held judicial appointments in New South Wales and Papua New Guinea. In 2005 he conducted an inquiry into the fitness to be tried of David Eastman who had...	17 June 1985 – 30 September 2002
Terence Higgins Terence Higgins (judge) Terence John Higgins is Chief Justice of the Australian Capital Territory, a territory of Australia.-Early years:Higgins was born in 1943 in Hobart, Tasmania. He was educated at St Augustines Christian Brothers College in Yarraville, Victoria, and subsequently at St Edmund's College in Canberra...	31 January 2003 – present

Judges

Name	Term as Judge
Lionel Lukin Lionel Lukin (judge) Justice Lionel Oscar Lukin was appointed as the first judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory, Australia on 25 January 1934 and remained the sole Judge of the Court until November 1943 when he retired due to ill health....	25 January 1934 – 31 October 1943
Thomas Clyne	25 November 1943 – 18 October 1945
William Simpson William Simpson (judge) William Ballantyne Simpson was an Australian soldier, barrister, Army officer, administrator and Supreme Court judge.-Early life:...	24 October 1945 – 30 April 1960
Sir Reginald Smithers	22 June 1966 – 2 November 1966
Sir John Kerr	22 June 1966 – 2 November 1966
Russell Fox	7 August 1967 – 31 January 1977
Sir Richard Blackburn Richard Blackburn Sir Richard Arthur Blackburn OBE was a judge, prominent legal academic and former military officer in Australia. He became a judge of three separate courts in Australia, and eventually became chief justice of the Australian Capital Territory. In the 1970s he decided one of Australia's earliest...	28 May 1971 – 6 November 1977
Francis Xavier Connor	7 March 1972 – 17 March 1982
Douglas McGregor	7 November 1977 – 7 December 1979
John Kelly	10 March 1980 – 30 June 1990
John Gallop	14 May 1982 – 31 July 2000
Terence Higgins Terence Higgins (judge) Terence John Higgins is Chief Justice of the Australian Capital Territory, a territory of Australia.-Early years:Higgins was born in 1943 in Hobart, Tasmania. He was educated at St Augustines Christian Brothers College in Yarraville, Victoria, and subsequently at St Edmund's College in Canberra...	2 July 1990 – 30 January 2003
Ken Crispin	29 September 1997 – October 2007
Malcolm Gray	12 October 2000 – present
Terry Connolly Terry Connolly Terrence "Terry" Connolly was an Australian politician and judge.Connolly was born in Adelaide and received a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts from the University of Adelaide and a Masters in Public Law from the Australian National University...	31 January 2003 – 25 September 2007
Hilary Penfold	1 February 2008 – present
Richard Refshauge	1 February 2008 – present

Acting Judges

Name	Term as Acting Judge
George Dethridge	1 October 1935 – 30 November 1935
Harold Piper	1 March 1939 – 30 November 1939; 10 October 1942 – 31 October 1942; 13 November 1942 – 31 October 1943
Kenneth John Carruthers	1 May 1995 – 22 December 1995
Jeffrey Miles Jeffrey Miles Jeffrey Allan Miles AO LLM BA is an Australian author and jurist. He is a former chief justice of the Australian Capital Territory. He has also held judicial appointments in New South Wales and Papua New Guinea. In 2005 he conducted an inquiry into the fitness to be tried of David Eastman who had...	1 October 2002 – 31 December 2005

Additional Judges

Introduced in 1958, Additional Judges are judges of other federal courts (such as the Federal Court of Australia

Federal Court of Australia

The Federal Court of Australia is an Australian superior court of record which has jurisdiction to deal with most civil disputes governed by federal law , along with some summary criminal matters. Cases are heard at first instance by single Judges...

) who serve part time with the Supreme Court in order to reduce the workload on the full Judges.

Name	Term as Additional Judge
Edward Dunphy	1 October 1958 – 31 December 1982
Sir Edward Morgan	14 October 1958 – 31 May 1960
Sir Percy Joske Percy Joske Sir Percy Ernest Joske, CMG was an Australian politician. Born in Melbourne, he attended Wesley College and then the University of Melbourne before being called to the bar in 1917. He served in the military 1943-45, and returned to become a law lecturer at the University of Melbourne, a position...	4 June 1960 – 21 December 1977
Sir Richard Eggleston	16 June 1960 – 31 May 1974
Alan Bridge	9 July 1964 – 28 July 1966
Sir Reginald Smithers	18 December 1964 – October 1986
Sir John Kerr	3 November 1966 – 22 May 1972
Sir Harry Gibbs Harry Gibbs Sir Harry Talbot Gibbs, GCMG, AC, KBE, QC was Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1981 to 1987 after serving as a member of the High Court between 1970 and 1981...	20 July 1967 – 1 August 1970
Charles Sweeney	1 May 1969 – 1 July 1971
Sir John Nimmo John Nimmo John Robert Nimmo in Dunedin. He was a New Zealand cricketer who played two first-class matches for the Otago Volts in the 1930's....	2 May 1969 – 26 March 1974
Sir Edward Woodward	25 February 1972 – 1990
Robert Franki	25 May 1972 – 1986
John Sweeney	5 September 1974 – 7 May 1981
Phillip Evatt	6 September 1974 – unknown
Robert St John	9 April 1975 – 31 March 1985
Raymond Northrop	23 March 1976 – 31 August 1998
Gerard Brennan Gerard Brennan Sir Francis Gerard Brennan, AC, KBE, QC , is an Australian lawyer, judge and 10th Chief Justice of Australia. He is father to Jesuit priest and lawyer Frank Brennan....	22 July 1976 – 12 February 1981
Douglas McGregor	8 December 1979 – 15 June 1985
John Davies	17 May 1978 – 20 December 1998
John Lockhart	17 January 1979 – 11 June 1999
Ian Sheppard	20 March 1980 – 23 May 1997
Trevor Morling	11 February 1981 – 1993
Gerald Fitxgerald	19 November 1981 – 20 June 1984
Kenneth Jenkinson	26 May 1983 – 13 January 1997
Bryan Beaumont	3 June 1983 – 11 June 2002
Murray Wilcox Murray Wilcox Murray Rutledge Wilcox, AO, QC is a former Australian Federal Court Judge, serving from 11 May 1984 until retiring on 2 October 2006.He also served as an additional Judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory from 23 April 1983 to 30 September 2006. He may be best remembered for...	23 April 1983 –
Jeffrey Spender Jeffrey Spender FBI Special agent Jeffrey Frank Spender is a fictional character in the American Fox television series The X-Files, a science fiction show about a government conspiracy to hide or deny the truth of alien existence. Spender was in control of the X-Files office after Fox Mulder's and Dana Scully's...	23 April 1983 –
Cecil Pincus	23 April 1985 – 16 December 1991
Michael Foster	25 November 1987 – 27 November 1998
Donnell Ryan	27 April 1989 –
John von Doussa	17 April 1989 – 6 June 2003
Antony Whitlam Tony Whitlam Antony Philip Whitlam QC, is an Australian lawyer who has served as a politician and judge. He is the son of former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and Margaret Whitlam.-Early life and education:...	7 April 1995 – 30 April 2005
Marcus Einfeld Marcus Einfeld Marcus Richard Einfeld is a retired Australian justice of the Federal Court of Australia and the Supreme Courts of New South Wales, Western Australia and the Australian Capital Territory; a former President of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission; a UNICEF Ambassador for Children; a...	12 August 1996 – 16 April 2001
Rodney Madgwick Rodney Madgwick Rodney Neville Madgwick is an Australian judge. He was a Justice of the Federal Court of Australia appointed in October 1995. He was based in the Sydney registry of the court and retired in 2008.-References:...	12 August 1996 –
Richard Cooper	1 October 1996 – 14 March 2005
Roger Gyles Roger Gyles Roger Vincent Gyles AO, QC is an Acting Judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, a former judge of the Federal Court of Australia and a former Royal Commissioner.-Early life:...	12 February 2001 –
Mark Weinberg Mark Weinberg -Early life and education:Weinberg was born in South Africa and educated at King Edward VII School in Johannesburg. He received degrees in Commerce and Law and practised as a barrister...	17 February 2003 –
Robert French Robert French Robert Shenton French, AC is Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy....	November 2003 –
Donald Hill	November 2003 – 25 August 2005
Michael Moore	November 2003 –
Brian Tamberlin Brian Tamberlin Brian Tamberlin, BA, LLB, LLM, QC is a retired Australian jurist, barrister, law commentator and justice in the Australia's federal court. Tamberlin received both is Bachelor of Arts and his Bachelors of Law from the University of Sydney. He later received his Master's degree in law from Harvard...	November 2003 –
Shane Marshall	November 2003 –
Anthony North	November 2003 –
Margaret Stone Margaret Stone Margaret Anne Stone is a Canadian freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.In 1936 she was a member of the Canadian relay team which finished fourth in the 4 x 100 metre freestyle relay event. In the 100 metre freestyle competition she was eliminated in the semi-finals.-External...	November 2003 –
James Allsop James Allsop James Leslie Bain Allsop is the President of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, the highest court in the State of New South Wales, Australia, which forms part of the Australian court hierarchy.-Education:...	November 2003 –
Bradley Selway	November 2003 – 11 April 2005
Annabelle Bennett	November 2003 –
Bruce Lander	November 2003 –
John Dowsett John Dowsett The Honourable Justice John Dowsett is a judge of the Federal Court of Australia.Justice Dowsett was appointed to the Federal Court on 14 September 1998, after serving as a judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland since 1985. He has therefore served as a superior court judge for 25...	August 2004 –