List of Judges of the High Court (Ireland)

The High Court of Ireland is a court which deals at first instance with the most serious and important civil and criminal cases.

List of Judges

•  †  denotes Presidents,      denotes currently-serving judges

Name	Term of office	Notes
Timothy Sullivan†	1924–1936	First President 1924–1936
James Creed Meredith	1924–1936
Thomas O'Shaughnessy	1924–1925	Last Recorder of Dublin
William E. Wylie	1924–1936
William J. Johnston	1924–1939
James A. Murnaghan	1924–1925
Henry Hanna	1925–1943
John O'Byrne	1926–1940
Conor Maguire†	1936–1946	President 1936–1946
George Gavan Duffy†	1936–1951	President 1946–1951
William Black	1939–1942
Martin C. Maguire	1940–1954
Kevin Haugh	1942–1961
Andrew Kingsbury Overend	1943–1947
Cahir Davitt†	1945–1966	President 1951–1966
Kevin Dixon	1946–1959
T. C. Kingsmill Moore	1947–1951
Charles Casey	1951–1952
Frederick O. Budd	1951–1965
Richard McLoughlin	1952–1969
George D. Murnaghan	1954–1979
Thomas Teevan	1954–1971
Brian Walsh	1959–1961
John Kenny	1961–1975
Seán Butler	1966–1980
Aindrias Ó Caoimh†	1966–1974	President 1966–1974
Alfred D. Pringle	1969–1974
Frank Griffin	1971–1973
Thomas Finlay†	1972–1985	President 1974–1985
John Gannon	1973–1990
Tom O'Higgins	1973–1974
Kenneth Deale	1974
Liam Hamilton†	1974–1994	President 1985–1994
Weldon Parke	1974–1976
Thomas A. Doyle	1974–1984
James G. McMahon	1975–1986
Herbert R. McWilliam	1976–1985
Declan Costello†	1977–1998	President 1995–1998
James A. D'Arcy	1977–1986
Ronan Keane	1979–1996
William Ellis	1979–1983
Donal Barrington	1979–1989
Mella Carroll	1980–2005	First female High Court judge
Roderick O'Hanlon	1981–1995
Edward Walsh	1981–1982
Henry Barron	1982–1997
Francis Murphy	1982–1996
Kevin Lynch	1984–1996
Seamus F. Egan	1984–1991
Robert Barr	1985–2002
Gerard Lardner	1985–1993
John Blayney	1986–1992
John McKenzie	1986–1991
Richard Johnson†	1987–2009	President 2006–2009
Frederick Morris†	1990–2001	President 1998–2001
Vivian Lavan	1991–2011
Declan Budd	1991–2011
Susan Denham	1991–1992
Feargus Flood	1991–2000
Paul Carney	1991–2015
Hugh Geoghegan	1992–2000
Dermot Kinlen	1993–2002
Harry Whelehan†	1994	President 1994
Brian McCracken	1995–2002
Mary Laffoy	1995–2013
Peter Shanley	1996–1998
Catherine McGuinness	1996–2000
Thomas C. Smyth	1996–2008
Diarmuid O'Donovan	1996–2007
Michael Moriarty	1996–present
Peter Kelly†	1996–2014, 2015–present	President 2015–present
Philip O'Sullivan	1997–2006
Kevin C. O'Higgins	1997–2008
John Quirke	1997–2012
Matthew P. Smith	1998–2004
Cyril C. Kelly	1998–1999
Nicholas Kearns†	1998–2004, 2009-2015	President 2009–2015
Fidelma Macken	1998–1999
Aindrias Ó Caoimh	1999–2004
Iarfhlaith O'Neill	1999–2014
Joseph Finnegan†	1999–2001	President 2001–2006
Roderick Murphy	2000–2013
Liam McKechnie	2000–2010
Daniel Herbert	2000–present
Paul Butler	2000–present
Henry Abbott	2002–present
Éamon de Valera	2002–2014	Grandson of Éamon de Valera
Mary Finlay Geoghegan	2002–2014
Michael Peart	2002–2014
Barry White	2002–2014
Seán O'Leary	2003–2006
Paul Gilligan	2003–present
Seán Ryan	2003–2014	First President of the Court of Appeal
Fidelma Macken	2004–2005
Frank Clarke	2004–2012
John MacMenamin	2004–2012
Elizabeth Dunne	2004–2013
Michael Hanna	2004–present
Kevin Feeney	2005–2013
Peter Charleton	2006–2014
Brian McGovern	2006–present
Maureen Clark	2006–2014
John Cooke	2007–2013
John Hedigan	2007–present
George Birmingham	2007–2014
Mary Irvine	2007–2014
John Edwards	2007–2014
Patrick McCarthy	2007–present
Garrett Sheehan	2007–2014
Daniel O'Keeffe	2008–2013
Gerard Hogan	2010–2014
Michael White	2011–present
Kevin Cross	2011–present
Paul McDermott	2012–present
Iseult O'Malley	2012–2015
Colm Mac Eochaidh	2012–present
Anthony Barr	2013–present
David Keane	2013–present
Marie Baker	2013–present
Max Barrett	2013–present
Bronagh O'Hanlon	2013–present
Bernard Barton	2014–present
Deirdre Murphy	2014–present
Brian Cregan	2014–present
Caroline Costello	2014–present
Aileen Donnelly	2014–present
Seamus Noonan	2014–present
Carroll Moran	2014–2015
Mary Faherty	2014–present
Tony Hunt	2014–present
Raymond Fullam	2014–present
Carmel Stewart	2014–present
Donald Binchy	2014–present
Robert Eagar	2014–present
Robert Haughton	2014–present
Margaret Heneghan	2014–present
Isobel Kennedy	2015–present
Mary Ellen Ring	2015–present
Tony O'Connor	2015–present
Richard Humphreys	2015–present
Michael Twomey	2016–present
Miriam O'Regan	2016–present

See also

• List of Justices of the Supreme Court of Ireland

External links

• List of High Court judges – Courts Service of Ireland