Portraits of Chief Judges

• Hugh Lennox Bond
  1891-1893
• Nathan Goff
  1892-1913
• Charles H. Simonton
  1893-1904
• Jeter C. Pritchard
  1904-1921
• Charles A. Woods
  1913-1925
• Martin A. Knapp
  1916-1923
• Edmund Waddill, Jr.
  1921-1931
• John C. Rose
  1922-1927
• John J. Parker
  1925-1958; Chief 1948-1958
• Elliott Northcott
  1927-1946
• Morris A. Soper
  1932-1963
• Armistead M. Dobie
  1940-1962
• Simon E. Sobeloff
  1956-1973; Chief 1958-1964
• Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr.
  1957-1989; Chief 1964-1981
• Herbert S. Boreman
  1959-1982
• Albert V. Bryan
  1961-1984
• J. Spencer Bell
  1961-1967
• Harrison L. Winter
  1966-1990; Chief 1981-1989
• James B. Craven, Jr.
  1966-1977
• John D. Butzner, Jr.
  1967-2006
• Donald S. Russell
  1971-1998
• John A. Field, Jr.
  1971-1995
• H. Emory Widener, Jr.
  1972-2007
• Kenneth K. Hall
  1976-1999
• J. Dickson Phillips, Jr.
  1978-2017
• Francis D. Murnaghan, Jr.
  1979-2000
• James M. Sprouse
  1979-1995
• Samuel J. Ervin III
  1980-1999; Chief 1989-1996
• Emory M. Sneeden
  1984-1986
• Clyde H. Hamilton
  1991-2020
• Karen J. Williams
  1992-2013; Chief 2007-2009
• M. Blane Michael
  1993-2011

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