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]

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.

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[1] Dunbar Roland, ed., The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi, Volume 1 (1904), p. 136-137.

[2] Lloyd, James B. (1981). "Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967". University Press of Mississippi. Retrieved May 5, 2018.