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
John P. Hampton	1818	1829	Chief Justice, 1818–1829
William Bayard Shields	1818	1818
John Taylor	1818	1820
Powhatan Ellis	1818	1825	Service interrupted in 1818
Joshua G. Clarke	1818	–
Walter Leake	1820	–
Louis L. Winston	1821	1824
Richard Stockton	1822	–
Edward Turner	1824	1832	Chief Justice, 1829–1832
Isaac Caldwell	1825	–
Joshua Child	1825	1831
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	Post	Notes
William L. Sharkey	1832	1850	District 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	1832	1838	District 3, Post 1 [3]
James F. Trotter	1838	1839	District 3, Post 1 [3]
P. Rutilius R. Pray	1838	1840	District 2, Post 1 [3]
John A. Quitman	1838	–
Edward Turner	1840	1843	District 2, Post 1 [3]
Reuben Davis	1842	1842	District 3, Post 1 [3]
Alexander M. Clayton	1842	–	District 3, Post 1 [3]
Joseph S. B. Thacher	1843	–	District 2, Post 1 [3]
Collin S. Tarpley	1851	1851	District 1, Post 1 [3]
William Yerger	1851	–	District 1, Post 1 [3]
Ephraim S. Fisher	1852	–	District 3, Post 1 [3]
Alexander Hamilton Handy	1853	1867	District 1, Post 1 [3]	Chief Justice, 1864–1867 [4]
William Littleton Harris	1858	1867	District 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	1868	1870	District 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)

Justice	Began service	Ended service	Notes
Ephraim G. Peyton	1870	1876	Chief Justice, 1870–1876
Jonathan Tarbell	1870	1876
Horatio F. Simrall	1870	1879	Chief Justice, 1876–1878
H. H. Chalmers	1876	1885
Josiah Abigail Patterson Campbell	1876	1894	Chief Justice, 1882–1885 and 1891–1894
James Z. George	1879	1881	Chief Justice, 1879–1881
Tim E. Cooper	1881	1896	Chief Justice, 1885–1888 and 1894–1896
James M. Arnold	1886	1889	Chief Justice, 1888–1889
Thomas H. Woods	1889	1900	Chief Justice, 1889–1891 and 1896–1900
Albert H. Whitfield	1894	1910	Chief Justice, 1900–1910
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 Burns Mayes	1906	1911	Chief Justice, 1910–1911
Robert Virgil Fletcher	1908	1909
Sydney M. Smith	1909	1948	Chief Justice, 1912–1948
William Dozier Anderson	1910	-
William Campbell McLean	1911	1912
Sam C. Cook	1912	1924
Richard F. Reed	1912	1915
J. Morgan Stevens	1915	1920
John Burt Holden	1916	1928	Died in office
Clayton D. Potter	1916	1917
Eugene O. Sykes	1916	1924
George H. Ethridge	1917	1941
William Henry Cook	1920	1937
James G. McGowen	1925	1940
W. Joe Pack	1928	1928
Virgil Alexis Griffith	1928	1949	Chief Justice, 1948–1949
Harvey McGehee	1937	1964	Chief Justice, 1949–1964
William G. Roberds	1940	1950
Julian P. Alexander	1941	1953
Lemuel Augustus Smith	1945	-
Lee Davis Hall	1948	1961
Malcolm B. Montgomery	1948	1950
Richard Olney Arrington	1950	1963
James Garrott Holmes	1950	1961
John W. Kyle	1950	1965
Percy Mercer Lee	1950	1966	Chief Justice, 1964–1966
James Plemon Coleman	1950	1950
William Nathaniel Ethridge Jr.	1952	1971	Chief Justice, 1966–1971; died in office
Fred Lotterhos Sr.	1953	1954
Robert G. Gillespie	1954	1977	Chief Justice, 1971–1977
Taylor H. McElroy	1960	1964
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	Chief Justice, 1977–1986
Stokes Robertson Jr.	1966	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	Chief Justice, 1986–1987
Roy Noble Lee	1976	1993	Chief Justice, 1987–1993
Francis S. Bowling	1977	1985
Kermit R. Cofer	1978	1986
Armis E. Hawkins	1980	1995	Chief Justice, 1993–1995
Lenore L. Prather	1982	2001	Chief Justice, 1998–2001
Dan M. Lee	1982	1998	Chief Justice, 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, 2001–2004
Chuck McRae	1990	2004
Fred L. Banks Jr.	1991	2001	Appointed to fill an unexpired term
James L. Roberts Jr.	1992	1999
Michael P. Mills	1995	2001	Appointed to fill an unexpired term
Bill Waller Jr.	1996	2019	Chief Justice, 2009–2019
Kay B. Cobb	1999	2007
Oliver E. Diaz Jr.	2000	2008
James W. Smith Jr.	1994	2009	Chief Justice, 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	Chief Justice since 2019 [5]
Ann Hannaford Lamar	2007	2017
David A. Chandler	2008	2016
Randy G. Pierce	2008	2016
James W. Kitchens	2009	2025
Leslie D. King	2011	Present
Josiah D. Coleman	2013	Present
James D. Maxwell II	2016	Present
Dawn H. Beam	2016	2025
Robert P. Chamberlin	2017	Present
David M. Ishee	2017	Present
Kenny Griffis	2019	Present
David Sullivan	2025	Present
Jenifer Branning	2025	Present

See also

• Judges of Mississippi Territory

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. 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".