Chief Justice of Bermuda

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

Chief justices

• Larry Mussenden
• 2018–present Narinder Hargun
• 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
• 1872–1877 Thomas Lett Wood
• 1856–1871 John Harvey Darrell
• 1834–1856 Thomas Butterfield
• 1810–1834 James Christie Esten
• 1785–1809 Daniel Leonard
• 1783–1785 John Harvey
• 1781–1782 William Brimage
• 1766–1781 Jonathan Burch
• 1755–1765 Nathaniel Butterfield
• 1750–1755 George Forbes
• 1748–1749 John Tucker
• 1744–1748 Nathaniel Bascombe
• 1735–1743 John Darrell
• 1727–1735 William Outerbridge
• 1709–1727 Samuel Sherlock
• 1706–1708 Anthony White
• ?–1706 Richard Stafford
• c.1705 Samuel Spofforth
• c.1695 Gilbert Nelson
• 1687–? Thomas Richardson
• William Penistone
• Leonard White

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