Napier is named after Sir Thomas John Mellis Napier (1882–1976) who was Chief Justice of South Australia for 25 years and a total of 43 years in the Supreme Court.
:x Sturt MHA Samuel Way resigned on 20 March 1876 to take up the position of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia.
After Sir John Jeffcott's death in December 1837, Henry Jickling was appointed as an acting judge.
Upper Hermitage's history revolves around agriculture and viticulture, as well as sand and freestone quarries, whose yields were used since early settlement days to build many South Australian public buildings, including the Adelaide Town Hall, General Post Office, Supreme Court and St Peter's Cathedral.
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Henry Jickling was appointed as a caretaker judge in 1837 to the Supreme Court of South Australia, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of South Australia.
Robert Homburg had served as Attorney-General of South Australia and also, later, as a justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia, the first non-British migrant to be appointed to such a position in Australia.
Malcolm Fraser Blue QC (born 12 August 1954 North Adelaide, South Australia) is a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia.
George Ligertwood (1888-1967), Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia
Thomas Napier (jurist) (1882–1976), former Justice and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia, see Electoral district of Napier