Chief Justice of the Bahamas

Legal basis

List of Chief Justices

• Thomas Walker, 1718–
• Sir William Morison, c.1770
• Thomas Atwood, 1773-1785
• John Matson, 1785-1789
• Stephen de Lancey c.1790–1797
• Moses Franks 1799–
• William Vesey Munnings 1811–1836
• Sir John Campbell Lees 1836–1865
• Sir William Henry Doyle 1865–
• Sir George Campbell Anderson 1875–
• Henry William Austin, 1880–1890
• Charles George Walpole, 1893–1897
• Sir Ormond Drimmie Malcolm 1897–1910
• Sir John Bromhead Matthews 1910–1911
• Sir Sidney Charles Nettleton 1922–1924
• Sir Ewen Reginald Logan 1925–1927
• Sir Kenneth James Beatty 1927–1931
• Sir Richard Clifford Tute, K.C.M.G, 1932-1939
• Sir Oscar Bedford Daly, 1939–
• Sir Oswald Lawrence Bancroft, 1951-
• Sir Guy Wilmot McLintock Henderson ?1956–1960
• Sir Ralph Abercrombie Campbell, 10 August 1960 to 31 May 1970
• William Gordon Bryce, C.B.E., Q.C., 1 June 1970 to 30 June 1973

• Sir Leonard J. Knowles, 4 July 1973 to 6 August 1978
• James Alfred Smith, 7 July 1978 to 11 May 1980
• Harvey Lloyd da Costa, 18 November 1980 to 31 December 1981
• Vivian O. Blake, 1 January 1982 to 9 September 1983
• Sir Denis Eustace Gilbert Malone, 10 September to 31 December 1983
• Rt. Hon. Mr. Philip Telford Georges, 1 January 1984 to 30 September 1989
• Sir Joaquim Gonsalves Sabola, 1 October 1989 to 31 December 1995
• Sir Cyril S. S. Fountain, 1 January 1995 to 30 October 1996
• Dame Joan A. Sawyer, DBE, 1 November 1996 to 26 November 2001
• Sir Burton P. C. Hall, KSS, KHS, 2001 to 2009
• Hon. Sir Michael L. Barnett, 24 August 2009 to 31 January 2015
• Hon. Sir Hartman Longley, 2 February 2015 to 22 December 2017
• Hon. Stephen Isaacs, 10 August 2018 to 24 August 2018
• Hon. Sir Brian Moree, QC, 12 June 2019 to Present