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

Born in Ripley, Tennessee, 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

  1. 1 2 3 "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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