| Justice
| Years as Chief Justice
| Party affiliation
| Place in sequence of chief justices
|
| Clark J. Adams | 1952 | - | 83
|
| John E. Bird | 1910, 1919, 1926 | - | 40, 49, 56
|
| Charles Blair | 1909 | - | 38
|
| Emerson Boyles | 1943, 1950 | - | 73, 80
|
| Thomas Brennan | 1969-1971 | - | 92
|
| James Brickley | 1995-1996 | - | 99
|
| Flavius Brooke | 1915 | - | 45
|
| George Bushnell | 1940, 1948 | - | 78
|
| Henry Butzel | 1930-1931, 1939, 1946, 1954 | - | 61, 70, 76, 85
|
| James V. Campbell | 1870-1872, 1878-1880, 1885, 1890 | - | 15, 19, 24, 26
|
| William Carpenter | 1906 | - | 35
|
| Leland Carr | 1947, 1955, 1962, 1963 | - | 77, 86, 89
|
| Michael Cavanagh | 1991-1994 | - | 98
|
| John Champlin | 1890-1892 | - | 27
|
| Bert Chandler | 1942 | - | 72
|
| Isaac P. Christiancy | 1872-1874 | - | 16
|
| George Clark | 1924, 1932 | - | 54, 63
|
| Mary Coleman | 1979-1982 | - | 94
|
| Thomas M. Cooley | 1868-1870, 1876-1878, 1884-1885 | - | 14, 18, 22
|
| Maura Corrigan | 2001-2004 | - | 102
|
| John Dethmers | 1953, 1956-1962, 1967-1969 | - | 84, 88, 91
|
| Louis Fead | 1928, 1937 | - | 59, 68
|
| Grant Fellows | 1922 | - | 52
|
| John Fitzgerald | 1982 | - | 95
|
| Richard Flannigan | 1928 | - | 58
|
| William Fletcher | 1836-1842 | - | 4, 6
|
| Claudius Grant | 1898-1899, 1908 | - | 32, 37
|
| Benjamin F. Graves | 1874-1876, 1882-1883 | - | 17, 21
|
| Sanford Green | 1855-1856 | - | 11
|
| Frank Hooker | 1893, 1902, 1903 | - | 29, 34
|
| Thomas Kavanagh | 1975-1979 | - | 90, 93
|
| Franz Kuhn | 1917-1918 | - | 47
|
| Charles Long | 1895-1898 | - | 31
|
| Conrad Mallett | 1997-1998 | - | 100
|
| Isaac Marston | 1880-1881 | - | 20
|
| George Martin | 1858-1867 | - | 13
|
| Aaron McAlvay | 1907, 1914 | - | 36, 44
|
| John McDonald | 1925, 1933 | - | 55, 64
|
| John McGrath | 1892, 1894-1895 | - | 28, 30
|
| Robert Montgomery | 1900-1901, 1910 | - | 33, 39
|
| Joseph Moore | 1904-1905, 1912, 1920 | - | 42, 50
|
| George Morrell | 1843 | - | 7
|
| Allen Morse | 1885 | - | 23
|
| Walter North | 1929, 1936, 1944, 1952 | - | 60, 67, 74, 82
|
| Russell Ostrander | 1911, 1918 | - | 41, 48
|
| William Potter | 1935 | - | 66
|
| Abner Pratt | 1856, 1857 | - | 12
|
| Epaphroditus Ransom | 1843-1848 | - | 8
|
| Neil Reid | 1951 | - | 81
|
| Dorothy Comstock Riley | 1987-1991 | - | 97
|
| Nelson Sharpe | 1927, 1934 | - | 57, 65
|
| Edward Sharpe | 1941, 1949, 1956 | - | 71, 79, 87
|
| Thomas Sherwood | 1886-1889 | - | 25
|
| Soloman Sibley | 1827-1837 | - | 3, 5
|
| Raymond Starr | 1941-1946 | - | 75
|
| Joseph Steere | 1913, 1921 | - | 43, 51
|
| John Stone | 1916 | - | 46
|
| Clifford Taylor | 2005-2009 | - | 103
|
| Elizabeth Weaver | 1999-2000 | - | 101
|
| Charles Whipple | 1848-1852 | - | 9
|
| Howard Wiest | 1923, 1930, 1938 | - | 53, 62, 69
|
| G. Mennen Williams | 1983-1986 | - | 96
|
| Warner Wing | 1852-1854 | - | 10
|
| James Witherell | 1808-1828 | - | 2
|
| Augustus Woodward | 1805-1824 | - | 1
|
