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

2012– Ian R.C. Kawarley

2004–2012 Richard Ground

1993-2004? Sir Lisle Austin Ward

1974-1993 Sir James Rufus Astwood

1968–?1974 Sir George O. 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

1782–1806 Daniel Leonard

1766–1781 Jonathan Burch

William Outerbridge

Richard Stafford

William Penistone

c.1695 Gilbert Nelson

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