List of Justices of the High Court of Australia by time in office in Encyclopedia

Rank by term length	Name	Term of office	Days in office
1	Sir Edward Aloysius McTiernan	20 December 1930 - 12 September 1976	16,703
2	Sir George Edward Rich	5 April 1913 - 5 May 1950	13,544
3	Sir Owen Dixon*	4 February 1929 - 13 April 1964	12,852⁺
4	Sir Hayden Erskine Starke	5 February 1920 - 31 January 1950	10,953
5	Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs*	12 October 1906 - 21 January 1931	8,867⁺
6	Sir Anthony Frank Mason*^?	7 August 1972 - 20 April 1995	8,291⁺
7	Sir Frank Gavan Duffy*	11 February 1913 - 1 October 1935	8,267⁺
8	Henry Bournes Higgins	20 December 1906 - 13 January 1929	8,060
9	Sir Frank Walters Kitto	10 May 1950 - 1 August 1970	7,388
10	Sir Dudley Williams	15 October 1940 - 31 July 1958	6,498
11	Sir Francis Gerard Brennan*^?	12 February 1981 - 21 May 1998	6,307⁺
12	Sir Alan Russell Taylor	3 September 1952 - 3 August 1969	6,178
13	Sir Garfield Edward John Barwick*	27 April 1964 - 11 February 1981	6,134
14	Michael Hudson McHugh	14 February 1989 - 1 November 2005	6,104
15	Sir Harry Talbot Gibbs*^?	4 August 1970 - 5 February 1987	6,029⁺
16	Sir John Latham*	11 October 1935 - 7 April 1952	6,023
17	Sir Douglas Ian Menzies	12 June 1958 - 29 November 1974	6,014
18	Sir Charles Powers	5 March 1913 - 22 July 1929	5,983
19	Sir Edmund Barton	5 October 1903 - 7 January 1920	5,938
20	Sir Samuel Walter Griffith*	5 October 1903 - 17 October 1919	5,856
21	Mary Genevieve Gaudron^?	6 February 1987 - 31 January 2003	5,838
22	Sir Daryl Dawson^?	30 July 1982 - 15 August 1997	5,495
23	William Montague Charles Gummow^?	21 April 1995 -	-2449829 round 0}}}}
24	Sir William John Victor Windeyer	8 September 1958 - 29 February 1972	4,922
25	Sir William Patrick Deane^?	25 June 1982 - 11 November 1995	4,887
26	Michael Donald Kirby^?	6 February 1996 - 2 February 2009	4,745
27	Kenneth Madison Hayne^?	22 September 1997 -	-2450714 round 0}}}}
28	Sir William Flood Webb	16 May 1946 - 16 May 1958	4,383
29	Lionel Keith Murphy	10 February 1975 - 21 October 1986	4,271
30	Sir Wilfred Kelsham Fullagar	8 February 1950 - 9 July 1961	4,169
31	John Leslie Toohey^?	6 February 1987 - 2 February 1998	4,014
32	Sir William Francis Langer Owen	22 September 1961 - 31 March 1972	3,843
33	Sir Adrian Knox*	18 October 1919 - 31 March 1930	3,817
34	Anthony Murray Gleeson*^?	22 May 1998 - 29 August 2008	3,752
35	Sir Ninian Martin Stephen	1 March 1972 - 11 May 1982	3,723
36	Sir Ronald Darling Wilson^?	21 May 1979 - 13 February 1989	3,556
37	Herbert Vere Evatt	19 December 1930 - 2 September 1940	3,545
38	Ian David Francis Callinan^?	3 February 1998 - 31 August 2007	3,496
39	Richard Edward O'Connor	5 October 1903 - 18 November 1912	3,332
40	John Dyson Heydon^?	1 February 2003 -	-2452672 round 0}}}}
41	Sir Keith Arthur Aickin	20 September 1976 - 18 June 1982	2,097
42	Sir Kenneth Sydney Jacobs	8 February 1974 - 6 April 1979	1,883
43	Susan Maree Crennan^?	1 November 2005 -	-2453676 round 0}}}}
44	Sir Cyril Ambrose Walsh	20 September 1969 - 29 November 1973	1,531
45	Susan Mary Kiefel^?	4 September 2007 -	-2454348 round 0}}}}
46	Robert Shenton French*^?	1 September 2008 -	-2454711 round 0}}}}
47	Virginia Margaret Bell^?	3 February 2009 -	-2454866 round 0}}}}
48	Albert Bathurst Piddington^	6 March 1913 - 5 April 1913	30

* Chief Justice
+ Terms as Puisne Justice and Chief Justice combined
? Justices to whom mandatory retirement (age 70) applied/applies; appointments since 1977
^ Albert Piddington received a commission but resigned it before ever serving on the Court

List of Justices of the High Court of Australia by time in office

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