Chief Justice of Bermuda

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The chief justice of Bermuda is the senior judge of the Supreme Court of Bermuda.

Chief justices

  • Larry Mussenden
  • 2018–present Narinder Hargun{{cite web |url=http://www.royalgazette.com/news/article/20180716/hargun-appointed-as-chief-justice |title=Hargun appointed as Chief Justice |publisher=The Royal Gazette |location=Bermuda |date=July 17, 2018}}
  • 2012–2018 Ian Kawaley
  • 2004–2012 Richard Ground
  • 1993-2004 Sir Austin Ward
  • 1977-1993 Sir James Rufus Astwood
  • 1973–1977 Sir John Crampton Summerfield (later Chief Justice of the Cayman Islands, 1978)
  • 1968–1973 Sir George Oswald Ratteray
  • 1961–1968 Sir Myles John Abbott
  • 1960–1961 Sir Allen C. Smith (acting)
  • 1958–1960 Sir Newnham Arthur Worley
  • 1952–1958 Joseph Trounsell Gilbert
  • 1941–1952 Sir Cyril Gerard Brooke Francis
  • 1939–1941 R. C. Hollis Hallett (acting)
  • 1927–1939 Sydney Orme Rowan-Hamilton
  • 1924–1927 Sir Kenneth James Beatty
  • 1917–1923 Sir Colin Rees-Davies
  • 1912–1917 Percy Musgrave Cresswell Sheriff
  • 1904–1911 Sir Henry Cowper Gollan (afterwards Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago, 1911)
  • 1900–1904 Sir Samuel Brownlow Gray
  • 1878–1899 Sir Josiah Rees {{cite web|url= http://www.parliament.bm/Presidents_of_the_Legislative_Councel_and_Senate.aspx|title= Presidents of the Legislative Council|publisher= Bermuda Parliament|accessdate= 14 October 2015|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140412122747/http://www.parliament.bm/Presidents_of_the_Legislative_Councel_and_Senate.aspx|archive-date= 12 April 2014|url-status= dead}}
  • 1872–1877 Thomas Lett Wood {{cite book|title=Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students ..., Volume 2|page =563}}
  • 1856–1871 John Harvey Darrell {{Cite web|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Men-at-the-Bar.djvu/151|title = Page:Men-at-the-Bar.djvu/151 - Wikisource, the free online library}}
  • 1834–1856 Thomas Butterfield The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History ..., Volume 7; Volume 76
  • 1810–1834 James Christie Esten Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, Volume 31
  • 1785–1809 Daniel Leonard
  • 1783–1785 John Harvey
  • 1781–1782 William Brimage
  • 1766–1781 Jonathan Burch {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aTaaAAAAIAAJ|title=Sir Francis Forbes: The First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales|isbn=9780207950551|last1=Currey|first1=Charles Herbert|year=1968}}
  • 1755–1765 Nathaniel Butterfield
  • 1750–1755 George Forbes
  • 1748–1749 John Tucker
  • 1744–1748 Nathaniel Bascombe {{cite book|title=A Genealogical Record of Thomas Bascom, and His Descendants|page=introduction}}
  • 1735–1743 John Darrell
  • 1727–1735 William Outerbridge
  • 1709–1727 Samuel Sherlock
  • 1706–1708 Anthony White {{cite web|url=http://www.royalgazette.com/news/article/20170404/call-to-bar-continues-family-legacy|title=Call to the Bar continues family legacy|publisher=The Royal Gazette|accessdate= 24 March 2019}}
  • ?–1706 Richard Stafford
  • c.1705 Samuel Spofforth
  • c.1695 Gilbert Nelson
  • 1687–? Thomas Richardson
  • William Penistone
  • Leonard White

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