Chuck McRae
Charles "Chuck" McRae is an Amercican retired judge. He served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi from November 1990 to January 2004.
Early life and education
He graduated from Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio and taught in Mississippi and Florida.[1]
Career
McRae worked as a lawyer in Gulfport, Mississippi.[2]
He ran for a seat on the court occupied by Joel Blass, who had been appointed to a seat vacated by the death of judge Ruble Griffin. McRae saturated the media with campaign ads and toured the state to defeat Blass in the Democratic primary.[2] McRae ran for reelection in 1994, winning by default after his initial Republican opponent withdrew to accept another office, and the substitution of another candidate was ruled to be in violation of the election statute.[2]
He was censured in 1997.[3] A 2003 Forbes article describes him as favoring plantiffs and having received most of his campaign funding from plantiff lawyers. It describes his successor, Jess Dickinson, as being more favorable to business.[4]
Personal life
In 2017 he was hospitalized after a scuba diving accident.[5] He rides a motorcycle. He has one daughter.[6]
See also
References
- ^ https://law-db.mc.edu/judicial/judge_profiles.php#mcrae Mississippi College Judicial Data Project entry on Chuck McRae
- ^ a b c Leslie Southwick, Mississippi Supreme Court Elections: A Historical Perspective 1916-1996, 18 Miss. C. L. Rev. 115 (1997-1998).
- ^ "FindLaw's Supreme Court of Mississippi case and opinions". Findlaw.
- ^ Robert Lenzner and Matthew Miller, Buying Justice, Forbes (July 21, 2003)
- ^ Gates, Jimmie E. "Former state high court Justice McRae in ICU after scuba diving incident in Cozumel". The Clarion-Ledger.
- ^ https://www.sunherald.com/news/local/counties/jackson-county/article159133229.html