Richard Forman Reed (November 11, 1861 – May 31, 1926) was an American state legislator and justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi from 1912 to 1915.
[2][3] Reed represented Adams County, Mississippi, for one term in the Mississippi State Senate,[2] where he unsuccessfully opposed a measure to transition to an elected judiciary.
[4] Reed was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for a seat in the United States House of Representatives, but later that year was appointed by Governor Earl L. Brewer to a seat on the state supreme court vacated by the resignation of Chief Justice Robert Burns Mayes.
[5][6] After his appointment to the state supreme court, he was succeeded in the Senate by W. C.
[7] In addition to his judicial service, Reed was known as a writer, having written a piece titled The Nature Country describing the settlement of Natchez.