Following is a list of justices of the Montana Supreme Court .
Current members
Chief justices
Montana Territorial Supreme Court
Montana Supreme Court
Associate justices
Montana Territorial Supreme Court
Montana Supreme Court
Associate Justice
Term served
Notes
William H. DeWitt
(1889–1897)
Edgar N. Harwood
(1889–1895)
William Henry Hunt
(1895–1900)
Resigned
Horace R. Buck
(1897)
Died in office
William Trigg Pigott
(1897–1903)
Appointed
Robert L. Word
(1900–1901)
Appointed
George R. Milburn
(1901–1907)
William L. Holloway
(1903–1926)
Died in office
Henry C. Smith
(1907–1913)
Sydney Sanner
(1913–1918)
William Trigg Pigott
(1918)
Appointed; previously served as Associate Justice, 1897–1903
Charles H. Cooper
(1919–1924)
Resigned
John Hurly
(1919–1921)
George Y. Patten
(1919)
Appointed to newly created seat; resigned
John A. Matthews
(1919–1920)
Appointed; subsequently served as Associate Justice, 1925–1937
Roy E. Ayers
(1922)
Appointed to newly created seat, January 1922; resigned November 22, 1922
Albert J. Galen
(1921–1933)
Frank B. Reynolds
(1921–1922)
Died in office
George W. Farr
(1922–1923)
Appointed
Albert P. Stark
(1923–1929)
Wellington D. Rankin
(1924–1925)
Appointed
John A. Matthews
(1925–1937)
Previously served as Associate Justice, 1919
Warren Toole
(1926–1927)
Appointed
Henry L. Myers
(1927–1929)
Appointed
Albert H. Angstman
(1929–1934)
Subsequently served as Associate Justice 1937–1942, 1945–1961 for a total of 28 years
Sam C. Ford
(1929–1933)
Subsequently Governor of Montana, 1941 to 1949
Ralph J. Anderson
(1933–1939)
Sam V. Stewart
(1933–1939)
Previously Governor of Montana, 1913–1921; State Representative, 1931–1933; died in office, 1939
Claude F. Morris
(1935–1947)
Albert H. Angstman
(1937–1942)
Previously served as Associate Justice, 1929–1934; subsequently served 1945–1961
Ralph L. Arnold
(1939–1941)
Appointed
Leif Erickson
(1939–1945)
Albert Anderson
(1941–1945)
Hugh R. Adair
(1943–1946)
Subsequently served as Chief Justice, 1947–1956, and again as Associate Justice 1957 – 1968
Albert H. Angstman
(1945–1961)
Previously served as Associate Justice, 1929–1934, and 1945–1961
Edwin K. Cheadle
(1945–1947)
Resigned
I. W. Choate
(1947–1949)
Appointed
Fred L. Gibson
(1947–1948)
Appointed
Lee Metcalf
(1947–1953)
Subsequently U.S. Representative, 1953–1961; U.S. Senator, 1961–1978
R. V. Bottomly
(1949–1961)
Harrison J. Freebourn
(1949–1954)
Forrest H. Anderson
(1953–1956)
Subsequently served as Governor of Montana, 1969–1973
Horace S. Davis
(1954–1957)
Appointed
Hugh R. Adair
(1957–1968)
Previously served as Associate Justice, 1943–1946 and as Chief Justice, 1947–1956
Wesley Castles
(1957–1977)
Appointed
Stanley M. Doyle
(1961–1967)
Appointed; resigned
John C. Harrison
(1961–1994)
Longest serving justice in history of the court
Frank I. Haswell
(1967–1978)
Appointed; subsequently served as Chief Justice, 1978–1985
John W. Bonner
(1969–1970)
Previously Governor of Montana, 1949 to 1953; Died in office, 1970
Gene B. Daly
(1970–1983)
Appointed, reelected
Daniel J. Shea
(1977–1985)
John C. Sheehy
(1978–1991)
Appointed
Frank B. Morrison
(1981–1987)
Resigned
Fred J. Weber
(1981–1995)
L. C. Gulbrandson
(1983–1989)
William E. Hunt
(1985–2000)
R. C. McDonough
(1987–1993)
Diane Barz
(1989–1990)
First woman to serve on the court; resigned
Terry N. Trieweiler
(1991–2003)
Karla M. Gray
(1991–2000)
Subsequently served as Chief Justice, 2000 to 2008
Charles E. Erdmann
(1995–1997)
Jim Regnier
(1997–2004)
John Warner
(2003–2009)
W. William Leaphart
(1995–2010)
Elected 1994; re-elected 2002
James C. Nelson
(1993–2012)
Appointed by Governor Marc Racicot ; elected 1994; re-elected 1996, 2004
Brian Matthew Morris
(2005–2013)
Elected 2004; re-elected 2012
Patricia O'Brien Cotter
(2001–2016)
Elected 2000; re-elected 2008
Mike Wheat
(2010–2017)
Elected in 2010; re-elected 2014
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