Leslie D. King (born January 17, 1949) is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.
[1] King earned his Juris Doctor from Texas Southern University School of Law in 1973.
King is only the 4th African American to serve as a Mississippi Supreme Court Justice in the state's history.
[3] On February 23, 2011, Governor Haley Barbour appointed King to the Supreme Court of Mississippi.
[2] In March 2018, King dissented when the majority found that sentencing a juvenile to life without parole was not contrary to Miller v. Alabama (2012).