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)

JusticeBegan
service
Ended
service
Notes
John P. Hampton18181829Chief Justice
William B. Shields18181818
John Taylor18181820
Powhatan Ellis18181825Service was interrupted in 1818.
Joshua G. Clarke1818
Walter Leake1820
Livingston B. Metcalf1821
Louis Winston18211824
Richard Stockton1822
Edward Turner18241832Chief Justice after 1829
Isaac Caldwell1825
Joshua Child1825
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
Notes
William L. Sharkey18321850
Cotesworth P. Smith1832
Daniel W. Wright1832
James F. Trotter18381839
P. Rutilius R. Pray18381840
John A. Quitman1838
Edward Turner18401843
Reuben Davis18421842
Alexander M. Clayton1842
Joseph S. B. Thatcher1843
Cotesworth P. Smith1849
Collin S. Tarpley1851
William Yerger1851
Ephraim S. Fisher1852
Alexander Hamilton Handy18531867Chief Justice from 1864–1867.[3]
William Littleton Harris18581867
David W. Hurst1863
Henry T. Ellett1866
Thomas Shackelford1868
Ephraim G. Peyton18681870
E. Jeffords1868
George F. Brown1868

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

JusticeBegan
service
Ended
service
Notes
Ephraim G. Peyton1870-
Jonathan Tarbell1870-
Horatio F. Simrall18701879
H. H. Chalmers1876c. 1900
Josiah Abigail Patterson Campbell18761894
James Z. George18791881Chief Justice from 1879–1881.
Tim E. Cooper18811896
James M. Arnold1886-
Thomas H. Woods18891900
Albert H. Whitfield18941910
Thomas R. Stockdale18961897
Samuel H. Terral18971903
S. S. Calhoon19001908
Jeff Truly19031906
J. H. Price19031903(James Houston)
Robert B. Mayes19061911Chief Justice from 1910–1911.
Robert Virgil Fletcher19081909
Sydney M. Smith1909c. 1944
William D. Anderson1910-
William Campbell McLean19111912
Sam C. Cook1912c. 1921
Richard F. Reed19121915
J. Morgan Stevens1915c.1921
John Burt Holden19161928
Clayton D. Potter19161917
Eugene O. Sykes19161924
George H. Ethridge19171941
Virgil Alexis Griffith19281949Chief Justice from 1948–1949.
Harvey McGehee19371964
William Greene Roberds19401950
Julian P. Alexander19411953
Lemuel Augustus Smith1945-
Lee Davis Hall19481961
Richard Olney Arrington19501963
James Garrott Holmes19501961
John W. Kyle19501965
Percy Mercer Lee19501965
James Plemon Coleman19501950
William Nathaniel Ethridge Jr.19521971Chief Justice from 1966 until his death in 1971.
Robert G. Gillespie19541977Chief Justice from 1971–1977.
Taylor H. McElroy19601962
Henry Lee Rodgers19611976
Robert Lee Jones19621971
Thomas Pickens Brady19631973Appointed to fill an unexpired term.
Neville Patterson19641986
Stokes Robertson Jr.19641980
William H. Inzer19651978
Lemuel Augustus Smith Jr.19651982
Robert Perkins Sugg19701983
Vernon H. Broom19721984
Harry G. Walker19731987
Roy Noble Lee19761993Chief Justice from 1987–1993
Francis S. Bowling19771985
Kermit R. Cofer19781986
Armis E. Hawkins19801995Chief Justice from 1993–1995
Lenore L. Prather19822001Chief Justice from 1998–2001
Dan M. Lee19821998Chief Justice from 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 from 2001–2004
Chuck McRae19902004
Fred L. Banks Jr.19912001Appointed to fill an unexpired term.
Charles L. Roberts Jr.19921999
Michael P. Mills19952001Appointed to fill an unexpired term.
William L. Waller Jr.19962019Chief Justice from 2009–2019
Kay B. Cobb19992007
Oliver E. Diaz Jr.20002008
James W. Smith Jr.19942009Chief Justice from 2004–2009.
Charles Easley20002008
George C. Carlson Jr.20012013
James E. Graves Jr.20012011
Jess H. Dickinson20042017
Michael K. Randolph2004PresentChief Justice since 2019 [4]
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. James Daniel Lynch, The Bench and Bar of Mississippi (1881), p. 533-34.
  2. Dunbar Roland, ed., The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi, Volume 1 (1904), p. 136-137.
  3. Lloyd, James B. (1981). Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817–1967. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781617034183. Retrieved May 5, 2018.
  4. https://courts.ms.gov/appellatecourts/sc/bios/justicerandolph.php
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