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. The High Court is composed of its president, 35 ordinary judges, and additional judges being ex officio the Chief Justice, the President of the Court of Appeal, the President of the Circuit Court, and former chief justices and courts presidents who remain judges.

Current members

Ex-officio members

Former members

NameTerm of officeNotes
Timothy Sullivan1924–1936President 1924–1936
James Creed Meredith1924–1936
Thomas O'Shaughnessy1924–1925Last Recorder of Dublin
William E. Wylie1924–1936
William J. Johnston1924–1939
James A. Murnaghan1924–1925
Henry Hanna1925–1943
John O'Byrne1926–1940
Conor Maguire1936–1946President 1936–1946
George Gavan Duffy1936–1951President 1946–1951
William Black1939–1942
Martin C. Maguire1940–1954
Kevin Haugh1942–1961
Andrew Kingsbury Overend1943–1947
Cahir Davitt1945–1966President 1951–1966
Kevin Dixon1946–1959
T. C. Kingsmill Moore1947–1951
Charles Casey1951–1952
Gardner Budd1951–1965
Richard McLoughlin1952–1969
George D. Murnaghan1954–1979
Thomas Teevan1954–1971
Brian Walsh1959–1961
John Kenny1961–1975
Seán Butler1966–1980
Aindrias Ó Caoimh1966–1974President 1966–1974
Alfred D. Pringle1969–1974
Frank Griffin1971–1973
Thomas Finlay1972–1985President 1974–1985
John Gannon1973–1990
Tom O'Higgins1973–1974
Kenneth Deale1974
Liam Hamilton1974–1994President 1985–1994
Weldon Parke1974–1976
Thomas A. Doyle1974–1984
James G. McMahon1975–1986
Herbert R. McWilliam1976–1985
Declan Costello1977–1998President 1995–1998
James A. D'Arcy1977–1986
Ronan Keane1979–1996
William Ellis1979–1983
Donal Barrington1979–1989
Mella Carroll1980–2005First female High Court judge
Roderick O'Hanlon1981–1995
Edward Walsh1981–1982
Henry Barron1982–1997
Francis Murphy1982–1996
Kevin Lynch1984–1996
Seamus F. Egan1984–1991
Robert Barr1985–2002
Gerard Lardner1985–1993
John Blayney1986–1992
John McKenzie1986–1991
Richard Johnson1987–2009President 2006–2009
Frederick Morris1990–2001President 1998–2001
Vivian Lavan1991–2011
Declan Budd1991–2011
Susan Denham1991–1992
Feargus Flood1991–2000
Paul Carney1991–2015
Hugh Geoghegan1992–2000
Dermot Kinlen1993–2002
Harry Whelehan1994President 1994
Brian McCracken1995–2002
Mary Laffoy1995–2013
Peter Shanley1996–1998
Catherine McGuinness1996–2000
Thomas C. Smyth1996–2008
Michael Moriarty1996–2018
Diarmuid O'Donovan1996–2007
Peter Kelly1996–2014, 2015–2020President 2015–2020
Philip O'Sullivan1997–2006
Kevin C. O'Higgins1997–2008
John Quirke1997–2012
Matthew P. Smith1998–2004
Cyril C. Kelly1998–1999
Nicholas Kearns1998–2004, 2009–2015President 2009–2015
Fidelma Macken1998–1999
Aindrias Ó Caoimh1999–2004
Iarfhlaith O'Neill1999–2014
Joseph Finnegan1999–2001President 2001–2006
Roderick Murphy2000–2013
Liam McKechnie2000–2010
Daniel Herbert2000–2014
Paul Butler2000–2018
Henry Abbott2002–2017
Éamon de Valera2002–2014
Mary Finlay Geoghegan2002–2014
Michael Peart2002–2014
Barry White2002–2014
Paul Gilligan2003–2018
Seán O'Leary2003–2006
Seán Ryan2003–2014First President of the Court of Appeal
Fidelma Macken2004–2005
Frank Clarke2004–2012
John MacMenamin2004–2012
Elizabeth Dunne2004–2013
Kevin Feeney2005–2013
Peter Charleton2006–2014
Maureen Clark2006–2014
John Cooke2007–2013
Brian McGovern2006–2018
John Hedigan2007–2016
George Birmingham2007–2014
John Edwards2007–2014
Garrett Sheehan2007–2014
Bryan MacMahon2007–2011
Daniel O'Keeffe2008–2013
Gerard Hogan2010–2014
Iseult O'Malley2012–2015
Colm Mac Eochaidh2012–2017
Marie Baker2013–2018
Carroll Moran2014–2015
Raymond Fullam2014–2017
Margaret Heneghan2014–2017
Caroline Costello2014–2018
Aileen Donnelly2014–2019
Mary Faherty2014–2019
Robert Haughton2014–2019
Seamus Noonan2014–2019
Donald Binchy2014–2020
Isobel Kennedy2015–2018
Úna Ní Raifeartaigh2016–2019