JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Retired Mississippi Supreme Court docket Presiding Justice Kay B. Cobb died on Friday, Could 26 at her dwelling in Lenoir Metropolis, Tennessee. She was 81.
A memorial service can be held for Cobb, however a date has not been introduced.
Cobb was the second lady to serve on the Mississippi Supreme Court docket, serving from 1999 till 2007.
Former Supreme Court docket Chief Justice Invoice Waller Jr. was a legislation faculty classmate and a colleague on the Court docket. He mentioned, “She was fearlessly unbiased. I’ve at all times been impressed together with her willpower and work ethic, exemplified by her getting into legislation faculty with two younger daughters at dwelling.”
Former Gov. Kirk Fordice appointed Justice Cobb to the Supreme Court docket on April 1, 1999. She was elected in 2000 to a full time period. She served for eight years, retiring on Could 1, 2007.
Her first elective workplace was within the Mississippi Senate. She served as state Senator for District 9, representing Calhoun, Lafayette and Yalobusha counties, from January 1992 to January 1996.