List of centenarians (jurists and practitioners of law)

The following is a list of centenarians – specifically, people who became famous as jurists and practitioners of law – known for reasons other than their longevity. For more lists, see lists of centenarians.

Name	Lifespan	Age	Notability
Smilja Avramov	1918–2018	100	Serbian academic, authority and educator in international law[1]
Sampson Salter Blowers	1742–1842	100	Canadian defence attorney representing the soldiers accused after the Boston Massacre[2]
William Augustus Bootle	1902–2005	102	American attorney and District Judge of the Middle District of Georgia[3]
Marie-Thérèse Bourquin	1916–2018	102	Belgian lawyer[4]
Wesley E. Brown	1907–2012	104	American district court judge[5]
Joseph Burke	1888–1990	101	American judge[6]
Melville Henry Cane	1879–1980	100	American lawyer and poet[7]
Jean Murrell Capers	1913–2017	104	American educator, judge and politician[8]
Frank Chuman	1917–2022	105	American lawyer and author[9]
Ena Collymore-Woodstock	1917–2025	108	Jamaican barrister and magistrate.[10]
Arnold Wilson Cowen	1905–2007	101	American lawyer and judge[11]
Thomas Simpson Crawford	1875–1976	100	Australian lawyer and politician[12]
Tom Denning, Baron Denning	1899–1999	100	English Master of the Rolls[13]
Edgar Fay	1908–2009	101	British judge[14]
Ben Ferencz	1920–2023	103	Hungarian-Romanian-born American lawyer and last Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal prosecutor[15]
Werner Flume	1908–2009	100	German jurist, legal historian, and professor[16]
John Gabbert	1909–2013	104	American judge[17]
Maurice Gaffney	1916–2016	100	Irish barrister[18]
William George	1865–1967	101	Welsh lawyer[19]
Samuel Hazard Gillespie Jr.	1910–2011	100	American counsel[20]
I. Leo Glasser	1924–	101	American judge[21]
Nico Gunzburg	1882–1984	101	Belgian lawyer and criminologist[22]
Trevor Henry	1902–2007	105	New Zealand justice on the Supreme Court of New Zealand[23]
Oliver Hill	1907–2007	100	American lawyer and civil rights activist[24]
Henry Hu	1920–2025	105	Hong Kong barrister[25]
V. R. Krishna Iyer	1914–2014	100	Indian judge and minister[26]
Charles Wycliffe Joiner	1916–2017	101	American judge[27]
Irving Kanarek	1920–2020	100	American defence attorney representing Charles Manson and "The Onion Field" killer[28]
Alan King-Hamilton	1904–2010	105	British judge[29]
George N. Leighton	1912–2018	105	American judge[30]
Rush Limbaugh Sr.	1891–1996	104	American lawyer and grandfather of Rush Limbaugh[31]
Wilmer W. MacElree	1859–1960	100	American lawyer and author[32]
Ludwig Martin	1909–2010	100	German lawyer and Attorney General[33]
Sir Anthony Mason	1925–2026	100	Australian jurist, chief justice (1987–1995), judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales (1969–1972) and the High Court (1972–1987)[34]
Harold Medina	1888–1990	102	American lawyer, teacher and judge[35]
Frederick M. Nicholas	1920–2025	105	American lawyer[36]
Karl Plutus	1904–2010	106	Estonian jurist[37]
L. Welch Pogue	1899–2003	103	American aviation attorney[38]
Jack Pope	1913–2017	103	American judge, attorney, author and legal scholar; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas[39]
Richard Rohmer	1924–	102	Canadian lawyer and aviator[40]
Cesare Ruperto	1925–2026	100	Italian jurist; president of the Constitutional Court of Italy[41]
Carlos P. Scovil	1804–1904	100	American assemblyman, New York state senator and county judge[42]
Donald Seawell	1912–2015	103	American lawyer[43]
Sir Hartley Shawcross	1902–2003	101	British barrister and politician; lead British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials[44]
Randolph W. Thrower	1913–2014	100	American attorney[45]
Arthur L. Thurlow	1913–2020	107	Canadian judge and politician[46]
Lawrence Walsh	1912–2014	102	American lawyer; 4th United States Deputy Attorney General[47]
Marion Yorck von Wartenburg	1904–2007	102	German lawyer, jurist, judge, World War II resistance fighter and author[48]
Roland Weyl	1919–2021	102	French lawyer and French Resistance militant[49]
Samuel Williston	1861–1963	101	American lawyer and law professor[50]
Joseph William Woodrough	1873–1977	104	American judge[51]
Knut Söderwall	1874–1980	105	Justice of the Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden (1923–1943).[52]
Alice Yotopoulos-Marangopoulos	1916/1917–2018	101	Greek lawyer and criminologist[53]