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]
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