Benjamin Wilson Coleman (July 1, 1869 – February 25, 1939) was a justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada from 1915 to 1939.
He was the deputy district attorney in Cripple Creek, Colorado, before he married Martha L. Attleton and moved to Nevada in 1906.
[3] He practiced law in Ely until he was elected to the ninth Judicial District in 1911.
He ran for, and was elected to, the supreme court in 1914 being re-elected four times and serving four terms as chief justice.
[2] William Edwin Orr was appointed to fill Coleman's seat on the court.