Charles Simpson Reid (September 25, 1897 – November 7, 1947)[1] was chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia from 1938 to 1943.
Born in Blairsville, Georgia, Reid attended Young Harris College and graduated from Atlanta Law School in 1918.
[1] Reid resigned from the court to join the United States Army during World War II, where he was on the staff of General Dwight D. Eisenhower as chief of the property control division.
Following the war, he served as a Colonel on the staff of Lucius D. Clay, who was the military governor of American-occupied Germany.
[2] When $28,000 under his supervision went missing and an inquiry was scheduled, he committed suicide by jumping from a twelfth-story window.