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 .

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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. Hampton 18181829Chief Justice, 1818–1829
William Bayard Shields 18181818
John Taylor 18181820
Powhatan Ellis 18181825Service interrupted in 1818
Joshua G. Clarke 1818–
Walter Leake 1820–
Louis L. Winston 18211824
Richard Stockton 1822–
Edward Turner 18241832Chief Justice, 1829–1832
Isaac Caldwell 1825–
Joshua Child 18251831
John Black 18261832
George Winchester 1827–
William B. Griffith 1827–
Harry Cage 1828–
Isaac R. Nicholson 1828–
Alexander Montgomery 1831–
William L. Sharkey 18321832
George W. Smyth 18321832
Eli Huston 18321832

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

JusticeBegan
service		Ended
service		PostNotes
William L. Sharkey 18321850District 1, Post 1 [3] Chief Justice, 1833–1851
Cotesworth P. Smith 1832
1840
1850		1838
1841
1863		District 2, Post 1 [3] Chief Justice, 1851–1863
Daniel W. Wright 18321838District 3, Post 1 [3]
James F. Trotter 18381839District 3, Post 1 [3]
P. Rutilius R. Pray 18381840District 2, Post 1 [3]
John A. Quitman 1838–
Edward Turner 18401843District 2, Post 1 [3]
Reuben Davis 18421842District 3, Post 1 [3]
Alexander M. Clayton 1842–District 3, Post 1 [3]
Joseph S. B. Thatcher 1843–District 2, Post 1 [3]
Collin S. Tarpley 18511851District 1, Post 1 [3]
William Yerger 1851–District 1, Post 1 [3]
Ephraim S. Fisher 1852–District 3, Post 1 [3]
Alexander Hamilton Handy 18531867District 1, Post 1 [3] Chief Justice, 1864–1867 [4]
William Littleton Harris 18581867District 3, Post 1 [3]
David W. Hurst 1863–District 2, Post 1 [3]
Henry T. Ellett 1866–District 2, Post 1 [3]
Thomas Shackelford 1868–District 3, Post 1 [3]
Ephraim G. Peyton 18681870District 1, Post 1 [3] Continued in post-1870 court
Elza Jeffords 1868–District 2, Post 1 [3]
George F. Brown 1868–District 2, Post 1 [3]

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

JusticeBegan
service		Ended
service		Notes
Ephraim G. Peyton 18701876Chief Justice, 1870–1876
Jonathan Tarbell 18701876
Horatio F. Simrall 18701879Chief Justice, 1876–1878
H. H. Chalmers 18761885
Josiah Abigail Patterson Campbell 18761894Chief Justice, 1882–1885 and 1891–1894
James Z. George 18791881Chief Justice, 1879–1881
Tim E. Cooper 18811896Chief Justice, 1885–1888 and 1894–1896
James M. Arnold 18861889Chief Justice, 1888–1889
Thomas H. Woods 18891900Chief Justice, 1889–1891 and 1896–1900
Albert H. Whitfield 18941910Chief Justice, 1900–1910
Thomas R. Stockdale 18961897
Samuel H. Terral 18971903
S. S. Calhoon 19001908
Jeff Truly 19031906
J. H. Price 19031903(James Houston)
Robert Burns Mayes 19061911Chief Justice, 1910–1911
Robert Virgil Fletcher 19081909
Sydney M. Smith 19091948Chief Justice, 1912–1948
William Dozier Anderson 1910-
William Campbell McLean 19111912
Sam C. Cook 19121924
Richard F. Reed 19121915
J. Morgan Stevens 19151920
John Burt Holden 19161928Died in office
Clayton D. Potter 19161917
Eugene O. Sykes 19161924
George H. Ethridge 19171941
William Henry Cook 19201937
James G. McGowen 19251940
W. Joe Pack 19281928
Virgil Alexis Griffith 19281949Chief Justice, 1948–1949
Harvey McGehee 19371964Chief Justice, 1949–1964
William G. Roberds 19401950
Julian P. Alexander 19411953
Lemuel Augustus Smith 1945-
Lee Davis Hall 19481961
Malcolm B. Montgomery 19481950
Richard Olney Arrington 19501963
James Garrott Holmes 19501961
John W. Kyle 19501965
Percy Mercer Lee 19501966Chief Justice, 1964–1966
James Plemon Coleman 19501950
William Nathaniel Ethridge Jr. 19521971Chief Justice, 1966–1971; died in office
Fred Lotterhos Sr. 19531954
Robert G. Gillespie 19541977Chief Justice, 1971–1977
Taylor H. McElroy 19601964
Henry Lee Rodgers 19611976
Robert Lee Jones 19621971
Thomas Pickens Brady 19631973Appointed to fill an unexpired term
Neville Patterson 19641986Chief Justice, 1977–1986
Stokes Robertson Jr. 19661980
William H. Inzer 19651978
Lemuel Augustus Smith Jr. 19651982
Robert Perkins Sugg 19701983
Vernon H. Broom 19721984
Harry G. Walker 19731987Chief Justice, 1986–1987
Roy Noble Lee 19761993Chief Justice, 1987–1993
Francis S. Bowling 19771985
Kermit R. Cofer 19781986
Armis E. Hawkins 19801995Chief Justice, 1993–1995
Lenore L. Prather 19822001Chief Justice, 1998–2001
Dan M. Lee 19821998Chief Justice, 1995–1998
James L. Robertson 19831992Appointed to fill an unexpired term
Michael D. Sullivan 19842000
Reuben V. Anderson 19851990
Joseph Ruble Griffin 19861988
Joseph Stephen Zuccaro Jr. 19871989
William Joel Blass 19891990Appointed to fill an unexpired term
Edwin L. Pittman 19892004Chief Justice, 2001–2004
Chuck McRae 19902004
Fred L. Banks Jr. 19912001Appointed to fill an unexpired term
James L. Roberts Jr. 19921999
Michael P. Mills 19952001Appointed to fill an unexpired term
Bill Waller Jr. 19962019Chief Justice, 2009–2019
Kay B. Cobb 19992007
Oliver E. Diaz Jr. 20002008
James W. Smith Jr. 19942009Chief Justice, 2004–2009
Charles Easley 20002008
George C. Carlson Jr. 20012013
James E. Graves Jr. 20012011
Jess H. Dickinson 20042017
Michael K. Randolph 2004PresentChief Justice since 2019 [5]
Ann Hannaford Lamar 20072017
David A. Chandler 20082016
Randy G. Pierce 20082016
James W. Kitchens 2009Present
Leslie D. King 2011Present
Josiah D. Coleman 2013Present
James D. Maxwell II 2016Present
Dawn H. Beam 2016Present
Robert P. Chamberlin 2017Present
David M. Ishee 2017Present
Kenny Griffis 2019Present

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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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Leslie Southwick, Mississippi Supreme Court Elections: A Historical Perspective 1916-1996, 18 Miss. C. L. Rev. 115 (1997-1998).
  4. ↑ Lloyd, James B. (1981). Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817–1967. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN   9781617034183 . Retrieved May 5, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Presiding Justice Michael K. Randolph - State of Mississippi Judiciary".
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