List of justices of the Supreme Court of Mississippi
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]
Supreme Judges of the State of Mississippi (1818–1832)
| Justice | Began service |
Ended service |
Notes |
| William B. Shields | 1818 | 1818 | |
| John P. Hampton | 1818 | - | |
| Powhatan Ellis | 1818 | 1825 | Service was interrupted in 1818. |
| Joshua G. Clarke | 1818 | - | |
| Walter Leake | 1820 | - | |
| Louis Winston | 1821 | 1824 | |
| Bela Metcalf | 1821 | - | |
| Richard Stockton | 1822 | - | |
| Edward Turner | 1824 | 1832 | |
| Joshua Child | 1825 | - | |
| Isaac Caldwell | 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 | 1842 | |
| P. Rutilius R. Pray | 1838 | - | |
| Edward Turner | 1839 | - | |
| 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.[2] |
| 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 | Present | Chief Justice since 2009 |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
References
- ^ 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. Retrieved May 5, 2018.