Johan Randulf Bull

Johan Randulf Bull (1749 - 1829) was a Norwegian judge.

He was born in Stod, as the brother of Johan Lausen Bull. He took the jurist examination in Copenhagen in 1778, and had been a member of "Det Norske Selskab" there.cite encyclopedia |year=2007 |title =Bull, Johan Randulf |encyclopedia=Aschehoug og Gyldendals Store norske leksikon |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location= |url=http://www.snl.no/article.html?id=482887 ]

From 1802 he was County Governor of "Søndre Bergenhus Amt" (today named Hordaland).b]

In 1814, at the advent of Norwegian national independence, he was appointed the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway. The court was operative from 1815. He left in 1827.c] He died two years later in Larvik.

He was the father of Georg Jacob Bull, who followed in his father's footsteps as Chief Justice from 1836 to 1854.

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