Andrew O. Holmes (May 4, 1906 – July 24, 1965) was a justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1963 until his death in 1965.
[1] While at Vanderbilt, he joined Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and managed the school football team.
[1] He served in the United States Navy during World War II, from 1942 to 1945, spending seventeen months as an Air Combat Intelligence Officer assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Kitkun Bay in the Pacific Ocean, and achieving the rank of lieutenant commander before the completion of his service in 1945.
[1][2] In March 1947 he was appointed to a seat on the Circuit Court in Shelby County, where he remained until February 1963, when Governor Frank G. Clement appointed Holmes to a seat on the state supreme court vacated by the death of Chief Justice Alan Prewitt.
He died at Memphis Methodist Hospital at the age of 59, following a heart attack at his home.