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.