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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)

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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)

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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. Thatcher 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)

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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 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

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  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. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t 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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