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
	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	–
	1821	1824
	1822	–
Edward Turner	1824	1832	Chief Justice after 1829
Isaac Caldwell	1825	–
Joshua Child	1825	1831
John Black	1826	1832
	1827	–
	1827	–
Harry Cage	1828	–
	1828	–
Alexander Montgomery	1831	–
William L. Sharkey	1832	1832
	1832	1832
	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	1838
	1832	1838
James F. Trotter	1838	1839
	1838	1840
John A. Quitman	1838	–
Edward Turner	1840	1843
Reuben Davis	1842	1842
	1842	–
	1843	–
Cotesworth P. Smith	1849	1862
Collin S. Tarpley	1851	–
William Yerger	1851	–
	1852	–
Alexander Hamilton Handy	1853	1867	Chief Justice from 1864–1867.^[3]
William Littleton Harris	1858	1867
	1863	–
Henry T. Ellett	1866	–
	1868	–
	1868	1870
Elza Jeffords	1868	–
	1868	–

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

Justice	Began service	Ended service	Notes
	1870	1876
Jonathan Tarbell	1870	1876
Horatio F. Simrall	1870	1879
	1876	c. 1900
Josiah Abigail Patterson Campbell	1876	1894
James Z. George	1879	1881	Chief Justice from 1879–1881.
	1881	1896
	1886	-
Thomas H. Woods	1889	1900
Albert H. Whitfield	1894	1910
	1896	1897
Samuel H. Terral	1897	1903
	1900	1908
	1903	1906
	1903	1903	(James Houston)
	1906	1911	Chief Justice from 1910–1911.
	1908	1909
	1909	c. 1944	Chief Justice from 1912-19??
	1910	-
	1911	1912
	1912	1924
	1912	1915
	1915	c.1921
	1916	1928
	1916	1917
Eugene O. Sykes	1916	1924
	1917	1941
William Henry Cook	1920	1937
	1928	1949	Chief Justice from 1948–1949.
Harvey McGehee	1937	1964
	1940	1950
Julian P. Alexander	1941	1953
	1945	-
	1948	1961
Richard Olney Arrington	1950	1963
	1950	1961
John W. Kyle	1950	1965
	1950	1965
James Plemon Coleman	1950	1950
	1952	1971	Chief Justice from 1966 until his death in 1971.
Robert G. Gillespie	1954	1977	Chief Justice from 1971–1977.
	1960	1964
	1961	1976
	1962	1971
Thomas Pickens Brady	1963	1973	Appointed to fill an unexpired term.
	1964	1986
	1966	1980
	1965	1978
	1965	1982
	1970	1983
	1972	1984
	1973	1987
Roy Noble Lee	1976	1993	Chief Justice from 1987–1993
	1977	1985
	1978	1986
	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.
	1983	1992	Appointed to fill an unexpired term.
	1984	2000
Reuben V. Anderson	1985	1990
	1986	1988
	1987	1989
William Joel Blass	1989	1990	Appointed to fill an unexpired term.
Edwin L. Pittman	1989	2004	Chief Justice from 2001–2004
	1990	2004
Fred L. Banks Jr.	1991	2001	Appointed to fill an unexpired term.
	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
	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.
^ "Presiding Justice Michael K. Randolph - State of Mississippi Judiciary".

[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] "Presiding Justice Michael K. Randolph - State of Mississippi Judiciary".

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