Clerk of the Montana Supreme Court

The Clerk of the Montana Supreme Court is a statewide elected office of the U.S. state of Montana. The clerk is elected every six years, and is responsible for receiving and validating appellate paperwork for the Montana Supreme Court, as well as being the custodian of records for Montana Supreme Court cases. The current clerk is Bowen Greenwood.^[1]

List

#	Name	Term of office	Party	Notes
1	A. W. Tarbet	1865–1866		[2][a]
2	J. Allen Hosmer	1866–1867		[2]
3	Lucius S. Peck	1867–1870		[2]
4	Isaac R. Alden	1870–1887		[2]
5	Robert L. Word	1887–1889		[2]
6	William J. Kennedy	1889–1892	Republican	[2]
7	Benjamin Webster	1893–1899	Republican	[2]
8	Henry C. Rickerts	1899–1905	Democratic	[2]
9	John T. Athey	1905–1915	Republican	[2]
10	John T. Carroll	1915–1922	Democratic	[2]
11	Dana M. Easton	1923–1924	Republican	[2]
12	J. Ward Crosby	1924–1935	Republican	[2]
13	Arthur T. Porter	1935–1942	Democratic	[2]
14	Peter T. Rigg	1942–1942	Republican	[2]
15	Frank Murray	1942–1957	Democratic	[2]
16	Edna Hinman	1957–1959	Republican	[2]
17	Thomas J. Kearney	1959–1983	Democratic	[2]
18	Ethel Harrison	1983–1989	Republican	[2]
19	Ed Smith	1989–2019	Democratic	[2]
20	Bowen Greenwood	2019—	Republican	[2]

Notes

1. Alternatively referred to as A. W. Torbet in some sources.^[3]