Job Durfee (September 20, 1790 – July 26, 1847) was a politician and jurist from Rhode Island.
He declined to be a candidate for reelection and resumed the practice of law; in May 1833 he was elected associate justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court.
[1] As chief justice, he presided over the trial of the last person executed in Rhode Island, John Gordon.
Durfee's interment was in the family burying ground at Quaker Neck, near Tiverton.
Durfee was the author of What Cheer, a poem in nine cantos; of an oration, The Influences of Scientific Discovery and Invention on Social and Political Progress, or Roger Williams in Exile (1843), under the pseudonym "Theaptes;" and of a philosophical work, entitled The Panidea (1846).