Term | Incumbent | Title | Party | Notes |
1896 to 1898 | Warner Wright Spalding | Administrator | | Independent | |
1898 to 1903 | Charles McArthur King | | Independent | |
1903 to 1907 | Walton Drake | | Independent | |
1907 to 1913 | Charles Sinclair Elliot | | Independent | |
Under the Norfolk Island Act 1913 |
21 August 1913 to 30 August 1920 | Michael Vincent Murphy | Administrator | | Independent | 1st term |
1 September 1920 to 30 June 1924 | John William Parnell | | Independent | |
1 July 1924 to 16 October 1926 | Edwin Thomas Leane | | Independent | |
1926 to 1926 | Henry Stephenson Edgar | | Independent | 1st term |
1926 to 1 February 1927 | Michael Vincent Murphy | | Independent | 2nd term |
1 February 1927 to 25 January 1928 | Victor Conradsdorf Morisset Sellheim | | Independent | |
25 January 1928 to 6 June 1928 | Henry Stephenson Edgar | | Independent | 2nd term |
6 June 1928 to 21 January 1929 | Charles Edward Herbert | | Independent | |
1 May 1929 to 30 June 1932 | Alfred Joshua Bennett | | Independent | |
1 July 1932 to 3 December 1937 | Charles Robert Pinney | | Independent | |
4 December 1937 to 31 December 1945 | Charles Rosenthal | | Nationalist | |
1 January 1946 to 31 December 1952 | Alexander Wilson | | Independent | |
1 January 1953 to 30 April 1958 | Colin Hugh Boyd Norman | | Independent | |
1 May 1958 to 1962 | Reginald Sylvester Leydin | | Independent | |
1962 to 1964 | Robert Wordsworth | | Liberal | |
1964 to 1966 | Roger Nott | | Labor | |
1966 to June 1968 | Reginald Marsh | | Independent | |
July 1968 to August 1972 | Robert Nixon Dalkin | | Independent | |
August 1972 to 31 August 1975 | Edward Thomas Pickerd | | Independent | 1st term |
1 September 1975 to 31 May 1976 | Charles Ivens Buffett | Acting Administrator | | Independent | |
1 June 1976 to 4 September 1976 | Edward Thomas Pickerd | | Independent | 2nd term |
4 September 1976 to 4 September 1979 | Desmond Vincent O'Leary | Administrator | | Independent | |
Under the Norfolk Island Act 1979 |
5 September 1979 to 19 March 1981 | Peter Coleman | Administrator | | Liberal | |
19 March 1981 to 10 May 1981 | Ian Hutchison | Acting Administrator | | Independent | |
11 May 1981 to 27 January 1982 | Thomas Ferguson Paterson | | Independent | |
28 January 1982 to 28 April 1985 | Raymond Edward Trebilco | Administrator | | Independent | |
29 April 1985 to 31 December 1988 | John Alexander Matthew | | Independent | |
31 December 1988 to 12 April 1989 | William McFadyen Campbell | Acting Administrator | | Independent | |
13 April 1989 to 12 April 1992 | Herbert Bruce MacDonald | Administrator | | Independent | |
13 April 1992 to 30 June 1997 | Alan Gardner Kerr | | Independent | |
1 July 1997 to 3 August 1997 | Ralph Alexander Condon | Acting Administrator | | Independent | |
4 August 1997 to 30 July 2003 | Anthony John Messner | Administrator | | Liberal | |
30 July 2003 to 1 November 2003 | Michael Stephens | Acting Administrator | | Independent | |
1 November 2003 to September 2007 | Grant Tambling | Administrator | | Country Liberal | |
1 October 2007 to 2 October 2008 | Owen Walsh | Acting Administrator | | Independent | |
2 October 2008 to 1 April 2012 | Owen Walsh | Administrator | | Independent | |
1 April 2012 to 30 June 2014 | Neil Pope | | Labor | |
1 July 2014 to 31 March 2017 | Gary Hardgrave | | Liberal | |
1 April 2017 to 31 May 2023 | Eric Hutchinson | | Liberal | |
1 June 2023 to present | George Plant | | Independent | |