List of justices of the Supreme Court of Mississippi
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)
Justice | Began service | Ended service | Notes |
John P. Hampton | 1818 | 1829 | Chief Justice |
William B. Shields | 1818 | 1818 | |
John Taylor | 1818 | 1820 | |
Powhatan Ellis | 1818 | 1825 | Service was interrupted in 1818. |
Joshua G. Clarke | 1818 | – | |
Walter Leake | 1820 | – | |
Livingston B. Metcalf | 1821 | – | |
Louis Winston | 1821 | 1824 | |
Richard Stockton | 1822 | – | |
Edward Turner | 1824 | 1832 | Chief Justice after 1829 |
Isaac Caldwell | 1825 | – | |
Joshua Child | 1825 | – | |
John Black | 1826 | 1832 | |
George Winchester | 1827 | – | |
William B. Griffith | 1827 | – | |
Harry Cage | 1828 | – | |
Isaac R. Nicholson | 1828 | – | |
Alexander Montgomery | 1831 | – | |
William L. Sharkey | 1832 | 1832 | |
George W. Smyth | 1832 | 1832 | |
Eli Huston | 1832 | 1832 |
Judges of the High Court of Errors and Appeals of Mississippi (1832–1870)
Justice | Began service | Ended service | Notes |
William L. Sharkey | 1832 | 1850 | |
Cotesworth P. Smith | 1832 | – | |
Daniel W. Wright | 1832 | – | |
James F. Trotter | 1838 | 1839 | |
P. Rutilius R. Pray | 1838 | 1840 | |
John A. Quitman | 1838 | – | |
Edward Turner | 1840 | 1843 | |
Reuben Davis | 1842 | 1842 | |
Alexander M. Clayton | 1842 | – | |
Joseph S. B. Thatcher | 1843 | – | |
Cotesworth P. Smith | 1849 | – | |
Collin S. Tarpley | 1851 | – | |
William Yerger | 1851 | – | |
Ephraim S. Fisher | 1852 | – | |
Alexander Hamilton Handy | 1853 | 1867 | Chief Justice from 1864–1867.[3] |
William Littleton Harris | 1858 | 1867 | |
David W. Hurst | 1863 | – | |
Henry T. Ellett | 1866 | – | |
Thomas Shackelford | 1868 | – | |
Ephraim G. Peyton | 1868 | 1870 | |
E. Jeffords | 1868 | – | |
George F. Brown | 1868 | – |
Justices of the Supreme Court of Mississippi (1870–Present)
Justice | Began service | Ended service | Notes |
Ephraim G. Peyton | 1870 | - | |
Jonathan Tarbell | 1870 | - | |
Horatio F. Simrall | 1870 | 1879 | |
H. H. Chalmers | 1876 | c. 1900 | |
Josiah Abigail Patterson Campbell | 1876 | 1894 | |
James Z. George | 1879 | 1881 | Chief Justice from 1879–1881. |
Tim E. Cooper | 1881 | 1896 | |
James M. Arnold | 1886 | - | |
Thomas H. Woods | 1889 | 1900 | |
Albert H. Whitfield | 1894 | 1910 | |
Thomas R. Stockdale | 1896 | 1897 | |
Samuel H. Terral | 1897 | 1903 | |
S. S. Calhoon | 1900 | 1908 | |
Jeff Truly | 1903 | 1906 | |
J. H. Price | 1903 | 1903 | (James Houston) |
Robert B. Mayes | 1906 | 1911 | Chief Justice from 1910–1911. |
Robert Virgil Fletcher | 1908 | 1909 | |
Sydney M. Smith | 1909 | c. 1944 | |
William D. Anderson | 1910 | - | |
William Campbell McLean | 1911 | 1912 | |
Sam C. Cook | 1912 | c. 1921 | |
Richard F. Reed | 1912 | 1915 | |
J. Morgan Stevens | 1915 | c.1921 | |
John Burt Holden | 1916 | 1928 | |
Clayton D. Potter | 1916 | 1917 | |
Eugene O. Sykes | 1916 | 1924 | |
George H. Ethridge | 1917 | 1941 | |
Virgil Alexis Griffith | 1928 | 1949 | Chief Justice from 1948–1949. |
Harvey McGehee | 1937 | 1964 | |
William Greene Roberds | 1940 | 1950 | |
Julian P. Alexander | 1941 | 1953 | |
Lemuel Augustus Smith | 1945 | - | |
Lee Davis Hall | 1948 | 1961 | |
Richard Olney Arrington | 1950 | 1963 | |
James Garrott Holmes | 1950 | 1961 | |
John W. Kyle | 1950 | 1965 | |
Percy Mercer Lee | 1950 | 1965 | |
James Plemon Coleman | 1950 | 1950 | |
William Nathaniel Ethridge Jr. | 1952 | 1971 | Chief Justice from 1966 until his death in 1971. |
Robert G. Gillespie | 1954 | 1977 | Chief Justice from 1971–1977. |
Taylor H. McElroy | 1960 | 1962 | |
Henry Lee Rodgers | 1961 | 1976 | |
Robert Lee Jones | 1962 | 1971 | |
Thomas Pickens Brady | 1963 | 1973 | Appointed to fill an unexpired term. |
Neville Patterson | 1964 | 1986 | |
Stokes Robertson Jr. | 1964 | 1980 | |
William H. Inzer | 1965 | 1978 | |
Lemuel Augustus Smith Jr. | 1965 | 1982 | |
Robert Perkins Sugg | 1970 | 1983 | |
Vernon H. Broom | 1972 | 1984 | |
Harry G. Walker | 1973 | 1987 | |
Roy Noble Lee | 1976 | 1993 | Chief Justice from 1987–1993 |
Francis S. Bowling | 1977 | 1985 | |
Kermit R. Cofer | 1978 | 1986 | |
Armis E. Hawkins | 1980 | 1995 | Chief Justice from 1993–1995 |
Lenore L. Prather | 1982 | 2001 | Chief Justice from 1998–2001 |
Dan M. Lee | 1982 | 1998 | Chief Justice from 1995–1998. |
James L. Robertson | 1983 | 1992 | Appointed to fill an unexpired term. |
Michael D. Sullivan | 1984 | 2000 | |
Reuben V. Anderson | 1985 | 1990 | |
Joseph Ruble Griffin | 1986 | 1988 | |
Joseph Stephen Zuccaro Jr. | 1987 | 1989 | |
William Joel Blass | 1989 | 1990 | Appointed to fill an unexpired term. |
Edwin L. Pittman | 1989 | 2004 | Chief Justice from 2001–2004 |
Chuck McRae | 1990 | 2004 | |
Fred L. Banks Jr. | 1991 | 2001 | Appointed to fill an unexpired term. |
Charles L. Roberts Jr. | 1992 | 1999 | |
Michael P. Mills | 1995 | 2001 | Appointed to fill an unexpired term. |
William L. Waller Jr. | 1996 | 2019 | Chief Justice from 2009–2019 |
Kay B. Cobb | 1999 | 2007 | |
Oliver E. Diaz Jr. | 2000 | 2008 | |
James W. Smith Jr. | 1994 | 2009 | Chief Justice from 2004–2009. |
Charles Easley | 2000 | 2008 | |
George C. Carlson Jr. | 2001 | 2013 | |
James E. Graves Jr. | 2001 | 2011 | |
Jess H. Dickinson | 2004 | 2017 | |
Michael K. Randolph | 2004 | Present | Chief Justice since 2019 [4] |
Ann Hannaford Lamar | 2007 | 2017 | |
David A. Chandler | 2008 | 2016 | |
Randy G. Pierce | 2008 | 2016 | |
James W. Kitchens | 2009 | Present | |
Leslie D. King | 2011 | Present | |
Josiah D. Coleman | 2013 | Present | |
James D. Maxwell II | 2016 | Present | |
Dawn H. Beam | 2016 | Present | |
Robert P. Chamberlin | 2017 | Present | |
David M. Ishee | 2017 | Present | |
Kenny Griffis | 2019 | Present |
References
- James Daniel Lynch, The Bench and Bar of Mississippi (1881), p. 533-34.
- Dunbar Roland, ed., The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi, Volume 1 (1904), p. 136-137.
- Lloyd, James B. (1981). Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817–1967. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781617034183. Retrieved May 5, 2018.
- https://courts.ms.gov/appellatecourts/sc/bios/justicerandolph.php
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