Attorneys general of the Irish Free State[edit] | ||||||
| No. | Name | Term of office | Exec. Council Composition |
Subsequent judicial or political career | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hugh Kennedy (TD for Dublin South) |
31 January 1922[a] | 5 June 1924 | SF (PT) (minority) CnG (minority) |
Chief Justice 1924–1936 | |
| 2 | John O'Byrne | 7 June 1924 | 9 January 1926 | CnG (minority) | High Court judge 1926–1940 Supreme Court judge 1940–1954 | |
| 3 | John A. Costello | 9 January 1926 | 9 March 1932 | CnG (minority) | Taoiseach 1948–1951, 1954–1957 | |
| 4 | Conor Maguire (TD for the National University) |
10 March 1932 | 2 November 1936 | President of the High Court 1936–1946 Chief Justice 1946–1961 | ||
| 5 | James Geoghegan (TD for Longford–Westmeath) |
2 November 1936 | 22 December 1936 | Supreme Court judge 1936–1949 | ||
| 6 | Patrick Lynch | 22 December 1936 | 29 December 1937 | Continued as AG of Ireland | ||
Attorneys general of Ireland[edit] | ||||||
| No. | Name | Term of office | Subsequent judicial or political career | |||
| Patrick Lynch | 29 December 1937 | 1 March 1940 | Was last AG of the Irish Free State Retired aged 74 | |||
| 7 | Kevin Haugh | 2 March 1940 | 10 October 1942 | High Court judge 1942–1961 Supreme Court judge 1961–1969 | ||
| 8 | Kevin Dixon | 10 October 1942 | 30 April 1946 | High Court judge 1946–1959 | ||
| 9 | Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh | 30 April 1946 | 18 February 1948 | Chief Justice of Ireland | ||
| 10 | Cecil Lavery (Senator on the Cultural and Educational Panel) |
19 February 1948 | 21 April 1950 | Supreme Court judge 1950–1966 | ||
| 11 | Charles Casey | 21 April 1950 | 12 June 1951 | High Court judge 1951–1952 | ||
| Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh | 14 June 1951 | 11 July 1953 | Supreme Court judge 1953–1973 Chief Justice 1961–1973 European Court of Justice judge 1973–1974 President of Ireland 1974–1976 | |||
| 12 | Thomas Teevan | 11 July 1953 | 30 January 1954 | High Court judge 1954–1971 | ||
| 13 | Aindrias Ó Caoimh | 30 January 1954 | 2 June 1954 | |||
| 14 | Patrick McGilligan (TD for Dublin North-Central) |
2 June 1954 | 20 March 1957 | |||
| Aindrias Ó Caoimh | 20 March 1957 | 15 March 1965 | President of the High Court 1966–1974 European Court of Justice judge 1975–1985 | |||
| 15 | Colm Condon | 16 March 1965 | 14 March 1973 | |||
| 16 | Declan Costello (TD for Dublin South-West) |
15 March 1973 | 19 May 1977 | Judge of the High Court 1977–1998 President of the High Court 1995–1998 | ||
| 17 | John Kelly (TD for Dublin South) |
20 May 1977 | 5 July 1977 | Minister for Trade, Commerce and Tourism 1981–1982 | ||
| 18 | Anthony J. Hederman | 6 July 1977 | 29 June 1981 | Supreme Court judge 1981–1993 | ||
| 19 | Peter Sutherland | 30 June 1981 | 9 March 1982 | |||
| 20 | Patrick Connolly | 10 March 1982 | 16 August 1982 | |||
| 21 | John L. Murray | 17 August 1982 | 14 December 1982 | |||
| Peter Sutherland | 15 December 1982 | 12 December 1984 | European Commissioner for Competition 1985–1989 Director-General of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1993–1994 Director-General of the World Trade Organization 1995 Chairman of Goldman Sachs 1995–2015 UN Special Representative for International Migration 2006–2017 | |||
| 22 | John Rogers | 13 December 1984 | 10 March 1987 | |||
| John L. Murray | 11 March 1987 | 25 September 1991 | European Court of Justice judge 1992–1999 Supreme Court judge 1999–2015 Chief Justice 2004–2011 | |||
| 23 | Harry Whelehan | 26 September 1991 | 11 November 1994 | President of the High Court 15–17 November 1994 | ||
| 24 | Eoghan Fitzsimons | 11 November 1994 | 15 December 1994 | |||
| 25 | Dermot Gleeson | 15 December 1994 | 26 June 1997 | |||
| 26 | David Byrne | 26 June 1997 | 17 July 1999 | European Commissioner for Consumer Protection 1999–2004 | ||
| 27 | Michael McDowell | 17 July 1999 | 6 June 2002 | Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform 2002–2007 Tánaiste 2006–2007 Senator for National University of Ireland since 2016 | ||
| 28 | Rory Brady | 7 June 2002 | 14 June 2007 | |||
| 29 | Paul Gallagher | 14 June 2007 | 9 March 2011 | |||
| 30 | Máire Whelan | 9 March 2011 | 14 June 2017 | Court of Appeal judge 2017– | ||
| 31 | Séamus Woulfe | 14 June 2017 | 27 June 2020 | Supreme Court judge 2020– | ||
| Paul Gallagher | 27 June 2020 | 17 December 2022 | ||||
| 32 | Rossa Fanning | 17 December 2022 | Incumbent | |||
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