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, 42 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

Name	Appointed	Notes
David Barniville	2017–2021, 2022–	President since 2022
Paul McDermott	2012
Anthony Barr	2013
David Keane	2013
Max Barrett	2014
Brian Cregan	2014
Tony Hunt	2014
Carmel Stewart	2014
Mary Ellen Ring	2015
Tony O'Connor	2015
Richard Humphreys	2015
Michael Twomey	2016
Miriam O'Regan	2016
Paul Coffey	2016
Leonie Reynolds	2016
Eileen Creedon	2017
Michael Quinn	2018
Garrett Simons	2018
John Jordan	2019
Alexander Owens	2019
Mark Sanfey	2019
Mary Rose Gearty	2019
Mark Heslin	2019
Paul Burns	2020
Siobhán Stack	2021
David Holland	2021[1]
Cian Ferriter	2021[1]
Emily Egan	2021[1]
Caroline Biggs	2021[1]
Karen O'Connor	2021[2]
Conor Dignam	2021[2]
Siobhán Phelan	2021[2]
Marguerite Bolger	2022[3]
Rory MacCabe	2022[3]
Kerida Naidoo	2022[4]
Eileen Roberts	2022[5]
Melanie Greally	2022[6]
Mícheál O’Higgins	2023[7]
Rory Mulcahy	2023[7]
Emily Farrell	2023
Liam Kennedy	2023
Siobhán Lankford	2023
Barry O'Donnell	2023
Oisín Quinn	2023
Conleth Bradley	2023[8]
Denise Brett	2023[8]
Nuala Jackson	2023[8]
David Nolan	2023[8]
Patrick McGrath	2023[9]

Ex-officio members

Name	Since	Notes
Donal O'Donnell	2021	ex officio as Chief Justice
Caroline Costello	2024	ex officio as President of the Court of Appeal Previously a member 2007–2014
Patricia Ryan	2019	ex officio as President of the Circuit Court

Former members

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Name	Term of office	Notes
Timothy Sullivan	1924–1936	President 1924–1936
James Creed Meredith	1924–1936
Thomas O'Shaughnessy	1924–1925	Last Recorder of Dublin
William E. Wylie	1924–1936
William John Johnston	1924–1939
James 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
Gardner Budd	1951–1965
Richard McLoughlin	1952–1969
George D. Murnaghan	1954–1979
Thomas Teevan	1954–1971
Brian Walsh	1959–1961
John Kenny	1961–1975
Séamus Henchy	1962–1972
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
Séamus 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
Michael Moriarty	1996–2018
Diarmuid O'Donovan	1996–2007
Peter Kelly	1996–2014, 2015–2020	President 2015–2020
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, 2004–2005
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	2000–2014
Paul Butler	2000–2018
Henry Abbott	2002–2017
Éamon de Valera	2002–2014
Mary Finlay Geoghegan	2002–2014
Michael Peart	2002–2014
Barry White	2002–2014
Paul Gilligan	2003–2018
Seán O'Leary	2003–2006
Sean Ryan	2003–2014	First President of the Court of Appeal
Frank Clarke	2004–2012
John MacMenamin	2004–2012
Elizabeth Dunne	2004–2013
Michael Hanna	2004–2023
Kevin Feeney	2005–2013
Peter Charleton	2006–2014
Maureen Harding Clark	2006–2014
John Cooke	2008–2013
Brian McGovern	2006–2018
John Hedigan	2007–2016
George Birmingham	2007–2014
John Edwards	2007–2014
Garrett Sheehan	2007–2014
Bryan MacMahon	2007–2011
Patrick J. McCarthy	2007–2018
Mary Irvine	2007–2014, 2020–2022	President 2020–2022
Daniel O'Keeffe	2008–2013
Gerard Hogan	2010–2014
Kevin Cross	2011–2021
Michael White	2011–2021
Iseult O'Malley	2012–2015
Colm Mac Eochaidh	2012–2017
Marie Baker	2013–2018
Carroll Moran	2014–2015
Raymond Fullam	2014–2017
Caroline Costello	2014–2018
Aileen Donnelly	2014–2019
Mary Faherty	2014–2019
Robert Haughton	2014–2019
Seamus Noonan	2014–2019
Donald Binchy	2014–2020
Teresa Pilkington	2014–2020
Bernard Barton	2014–2021
Bronagh O'Hanlon	2014–2021
Robert Eagar	2014–2022
Deirdre Murphy	2014–2023
Margaret Heneghan	2015–2017
Isobel Kennedy	2015–2018
Úna Ní Raifeartaigh	2016–2019
Charles Meenan	2017–2023
Senan Allen	2018–2022
Tara Burns	2018–2023
Brian O'Moore	2019–2023
Nuala Butler	2020–2022
Niamh Hyland	2019–2024
Michael MacGrath	2018–2024
Denis McDonald	2018-2024

See also

• List of judges of the Supreme Court of Ireland
• List of judges of the Court of Appeal of Ireland