Editing Universal House of Justice (section)

==Past members==
{{anchor|Farzam Arbab}}
The initial election in 1963 drew five members from the [[International Baháʼí Council]], two from the National [[Spiritual Assembly]] (NSA) of the United States, one from the NSA of Britain, and one from the NSA of India.{{sfn|Smith|2000|p=347}}

Members are entered in the table under the year when they were first elected. Starting with the first election in 1963, regular elections of the entire membership have occurred every five years, and there have been five by-elections, noted in the table with ''italics'', in 1982, 1987, 2000, 2005 and 2010. All members have continued to serve after re-election in subsequent conventions. [[Amoz Gibson]], [[Charles Wolcott]], and [[Adib Taherzadeh]] died while in office while the other former members were allowed to retire.

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#EFEFEF;"
! 1963 !! 1968 !! 1973 !! 1978 !! ''1982'' !! 1983 !! ''1987'' !! 1988 !! 1993 !! 1998 !! ''2000'' !! 2003 !! ''2005'' !! 2008 !! ''2010'' !! 2013  !! 2018
!2023
|-
| Lutfu'lláh Hakím
|colspan=7|David Ruhe
|colspan=7|Farzam Arbab*
| colspan="3" |Ayman Rouhani
|-
|colspan=4|[[Amoz Gibson]]
|colspan=9|Glenford Mitchell
|colspan=3|Gustavo Correa
| colspan="2" |Praveen Mallik
|-
|colspan=6|[[Charles Wolcott]]
|colspan=8|Peter Khan
|colspan=3|Stephen Hall
|Andrej Donoval
|-
|colspan=7|[[David Hofman]]
|colspan=7|Hooper Dunbar
|colspan=3|Stephen Birkland
|Albert Nshisu Nsunga
|-
|colspan=7|Borrah Kavelin
|colspan=3|[[Adib Taherzadeh]]
|colspan=5|Kiser Barnes
| colspan="3" |Chuungu Malitonga
|-
|colspan=8|Hugh Chance
|colspan=4|J. Douglas Martin<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.bahai.org/story/1455/ |title=Douglas Martin, 1927–2020 |agency=Baháʼí World News Service |location=[[Baháʼí World Centre]] |date=2020-09-29 |access-date=2020-10-18 |archive-date=2020-10-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020004547/https://news.bahai.org/story/1455/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theglobeandmail/obituary.aspx?n=douglas-martin&pid=196892458 |title=Obituary: Douglas Martin 1927 – 2020 |newspaper=[[The Globe and Mail]] |date=2020-10-03 |access-date=2020-10-18 |quote=born February 24, 1927, and raised in Chatham, Ontario... passed away [Toronto, Ontario] ... September 28, 2020... Elizabeth, his wife, passed away in 1999. He leaves no children... In 1993, he was elected to ... Universal House of Justice, serving until his retirement in 2005. ... co-authored, with Dr. William Hatcher, "The Baháʼí Faith: The Emerging Global Religion"<!--- see https://archive.org/details/bahaifaith00will ---> |archive-date=2020-10-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019211811/https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theglobeandmail/obituary.aspx?n=douglas-martin&pid=196892458 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| colspan="6" |Paul Lample
|-
|colspan=11|[[Ali Nakhjavani|Alí Nakhjavání]]
|colspan=2|Hartmut Grossmann
| colspan="5" |Shahriar Razavi
|-
|colspan=11|Hushmand Fatheazam 
|colspan=5|Firaydoun Javaheri
| colspan="2" |Juan Francisco Mora
|-
|colspan=12|Ian Semple
| colspan="6" |Payman Mohajer
|-
|}
* <small>Farzam Arbab (October 27, 1941 – September 25, 2020), born in [[Tehran]], Iran was a member from 1993 until he relinquished his membership in 2013, at the age of 71.<ref>{{Cite web| date=2020-09-26| title=Farzam Arbab, 1941–2020 {{!}} BWNS| url=https://news.bahai.org/story/1453/| access-date=2020-09-27| website=Bahá’í World News Service| language=en| archive-date=2020-10-09| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009213819/https://news.bahai.org/story/1453| url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.bahai.org/story/948/ |title=Two members of Universal House of Justice leaving after years of service |date=23 April 2013 |publisher=Baháʼí World News Service |access-date=2017-07-23 |archive-date=2017-07-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170713081431/http://news.bahai.org/story/948/ |url-status=live }}</ref></small>