Colin P. McKinney

Colin Pierson McKinney (May 23, 1873 – March 30, 1944) was a justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1918 to 1942.^[1]

Born in Ripley, Tennessee to Dr. Colin Shepherd McKinney and Adelaide Frances Pierson, McKinney attended the public schools and Brennan Military Academy. Intending to become a court reporter, he read law with his uncle, Judge Blair Pierson, and gained admission to the bar in Tennessee in 1896.^[1] He became a chancellor of the Ninth Division of Tennessee in 1910, and after eight years in that office was elected to the newly reconstituted state supreme court.^[1]

McKinney retired from the bench in 1942, due to ill health, and died in Nashville two years later, at the age of 70.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Justice McKinney Rounds Out 32 Years on Bench Tomorrow", Nashville Banner (July 24, 1942), p. 1.
^ "Judge Colin P. McKinney", The Jackson Sun (May 1, 1944), p. 4.

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[Banner-1] "Justice McKinney Rounds Out 32 Years on Bench Tomorrow", Nashville Banner (July 24, 1942), p. 1.

[2] "Judge Colin P. McKinney", The Jackson Sun (May 1, 1944), p. 4.

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