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List of justices of the Supreme Court of Mississippi

List of justices of the Supreme Court of Mississippi

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Following is a list of justices of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

These justices served in three different iterations of the court.[1][2]

Supreme judges of the State of Mississippi (1818–1832)

JusticeBegan
service		Ended
service		Notes
John P. Hampton18181829Chief Justice, 1818–1829
William Bayard Shields18181818
John Taylor18181820
Powhatan Ellis18181825Service interrupted in 1818
Joshua G. Clarke1818–
Walter Leake1820–
Louis L. Winston18211824
Richard Stockton1822–
Edward Turner18241832Chief Justice, 1829–1832
Isaac Caldwell1825–
Joshua Child18251831
John Black18261832
George Winchester1827–
William B. Griffith1827–
Harry Cage1828–
Isaac R. Nicholson1828–
Alexander Montgomery1831–
William L. Sharkey18321832
George W. Smyth18321832
Eli Huston18321832

Judges of the High Court of Errors and Appeals of Mississippi (1832–1870)

JusticeBegan
service		Ended
service		PostNotes
William L. Sharkey18321850District 1, Post 1[3]Chief Justice, 1833–1851
Cotesworth P. Smith1832
1840
1850		1838
1841
1863		District 2, Post 1[3]Chief Justice, 1851–1863
Daniel W. Wright18321838District 3, Post 1[3]
James F. Trotter18381839District 3, Post 1[3]
P. Rutilius R. Pray18381840District 2, Post 1[3]
John A. Quitman1838–
Edward Turner18401843District 2, Post 1[3]
Reuben Davis18421842District 3, Post 1[3]
Alexander M. Clayton1842–District 3, Post 1[3]
Joseph S. B. Thatcher1843–District 2, Post 1[3]
Collin S. Tarpley18511851District 1, Post 1[3]
William Yerger1851–District 1, Post 1[3]
Ephraim S. Fisher1852–District 3, Post 1[3]
Alexander Hamilton Handy18531867District 1, Post 1[3]Chief Justice, 1864–1867[4]
William Littleton Harris18581867District 3, Post 1[3]
David W. Hurst1863–District 2, Post 1[3]
Henry T. Ellett1866–District 2, Post 1[3]
Thomas Shackelford1868–District 3, Post 1[3]
Ephraim G. Peyton18681870District 1, Post 1[3]Continued in post-1870 court
Elza Jeffords1868–District 2, Post 1[3]
George F. Brown1868–District 2, Post 1[3]

Justices of the Supreme Court of Mississippi (1870–Present)

JusticeBegan
service		Ended
service		Notes
Ephraim G. Peyton18701876Chief Justice, 1870–1876
Jonathan Tarbell18701876
Horatio F. Simrall18701879Chief Justice, 1876–1878
H. H. Chalmers18761885
Josiah Abigail Patterson Campbell18761894Chief Justice, 1882–1885 and 1891–1894
James Z. George18791881Chief Justice, 1879–1881
Tim E. Cooper18811896Chief Justice, 1885–1888 and 1894–1896
James M. Arnold18861889Chief Justice, 1888–1889
Thomas H. Woods18891900Chief Justice, 1889–1891 and 1896–1900
Albert H. Whitfield18941910Chief Justice, 1900–1910
Thomas R. Stockdale18961897
Samuel H. Terral18971903
S. S. Calhoon19001908
Jeff Truly19031906
J. H. Price19031903(James Houston)
Robert Burns Mayes19061911Chief Justice, 1910–1911
Robert Virgil Fletcher19081909
Sydney M. Smith19091948Chief Justice, 1912–1948
William Dozier Anderson1910-
William Campbell McLean19111912
Sam C. Cook19121924
Richard F. Reed19121915
J. Morgan Stevens19151920
John Burt Holden19161928Died in office
Clayton D. Potter19161917
Eugene O. Sykes19161924
George H. Ethridge19171941
William Henry Cook19201937
James G. McGowen19251940
W. Joe Pack19281928
Virgil Alexis Griffith19281949Chief Justice, 1948–1949
Harvey McGehee19371964Chief Justice, 1949–1964
William G. Roberds19401950
Julian P. Alexander19411953
Lemuel Augustus Smith1945-
Lee Davis Hall19481961
Malcolm B. Montgomery19481950
Richard Olney Arrington19501963
James Garrott Holmes19501961
John W. Kyle19501965
Percy Mercer Lee19501966Chief Justice, 1964–1966
James Plemon Coleman19501950
William Nathaniel Ethridge Jr.19521971Chief Justice, 1966–1971; died in office
Fred Lotterhos Sr.19531954
Robert G. Gillespie19541977Chief Justice, 1971–1977
Taylor H. McElroy19601964
Henry Lee Rodgers19611976
Robert Lee Jones19621971
Thomas Pickens Brady19631973Appointed to fill an unexpired term
Neville Patterson19641986Chief Justice, 1977–1986
Stokes Robertson Jr.19661980
William H. Inzer19651978
Lemuel Augustus Smith Jr.19651982
Robert Perkins Sugg19701983
Vernon H. Broom19721984
Harry G. Walker19731987Chief Justice, 1986–1987
Roy Noble Lee19761993Chief Justice, 1987–1993
Francis S. Bowling19771985
Kermit R. Cofer19781986
Armis E. Hawkins19801995Chief Justice, 1993–1995
Lenore L. Prather19822001Chief Justice, 1998–2001
Dan M. Lee19821998Chief Justice, 1995–1998
James L. Robertson19831992Appointed to fill an unexpired term
Michael D. Sullivan19842000
Reuben V. Anderson19851990
Joseph Ruble Griffin19861988
Joseph Stephen Zuccaro Jr.19871989
William Joel Blass19891990Appointed to fill an unexpired term
Edwin L. Pittman19892004Chief Justice, 2001–2004
Chuck McRae19902004
Fred L. Banks Jr.19912001Appointed to fill an unexpired term
James L. Roberts Jr.19921999
Michael P. Mills19952001Appointed to fill an unexpired term
Bill Waller Jr.19962019Chief Justice, 2009–2019
Kay B. Cobb19992007
Oliver E. Diaz Jr.20002008
James W. Smith Jr.19942009Chief Justice, 2004–2009
Charles Easley20002008
George C. Carlson Jr.20012013
James E. Graves Jr.20012011
Jess H. Dickinson20042017
Michael K. Randolph2004PresentChief Justice since 2019[5]
Ann Hannaford Lamar20072017
David A. Chandler20082016
Randy G. Pierce20082016
James W. Kitchens2009Present
Leslie D. King2011Present
Josiah D. Coleman2013Present
James D. Maxwell II2016Present
Dawn H. Beam2016Present
Robert P. Chamberlin2017Present
David M. Ishee2017Present
Kenny Griffis2019Present

References

  1. [1]
    James Daniel Lynch, The Bench and Bar of Mississippi (1881), p. 533-34.
  2. [2]
    Dunbar Roland, ed., The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi, Volume 1 (1904), p. 136-137.
  3. [3]
    Leslie Southwick, Mississippi Supreme Court Elections: A Historical Perspective 1916-1996, 18 Miss. C. L. Rev. 115 (1997-1998).
  4. [4]
    Lloyd, James B. (1981). Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817–1967. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781617034183. Retrieved May 5, 2018.
  5. [5]
    "Presiding Justice Michael K. Randolph - State of Mississippi Judiciary".
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