Reuben V. Anderson

Reuben V. Anderson (born September 16, 1942)[1] is an American attorney who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi from 1985 to 1990.

For his first decade after law school, Anderson worked as a civil rights attorney in Jackson, Mississippi for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

He attended the state's flagship school, the University of Mississippi, where he earned his law degree in 1967, five years after the university had admitted its first black student, James Meredith, and four years after it admitted its first black law student.

Anderson began his rise in the judiciary when he was elected to the Jackson Municipal Court; he served there for two years.

[3] In July 2020, Anderson was appointed to a special commission tasked with presenting a new design for the Flag of Mississippi to voters for their approval.