Lynn Boyd Watkins (October 9, 1836 – March 2, 1901) was a justice of the
Louisiana Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of Louisiana (french: Cour suprême de Louisiane) is the highest court and court of last resort in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The modern Supreme Court, composed of seven justices, meets in the French Quarter of New Orlea ...
from April 19, 1886, to March 2, 1901.
Born in
Caldwell County, Kentucky, Watkins served in the
Confederate States Army
The Confederate States Army, also called the Confederate Army or the Southern Army, was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (commonly referred to as the Confederacy) during the American Civil War (1861–1865), fighting ...
and became a District Judge, in Louisiana in 1871.
[''Celebration of the Centenary of the Supreme Court of Louisiana'' (March 1, 1913), in John Wymond, Henry Plauché Dart, eds., ''The Louisiana Historical Quarterly'' (1922), p. 122.] His brother
John T. Watkins was also a prominent attorney.
Watkins died in
,
Louisiana
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.
References
Justices of the Louisiana Supreme Court
1836 births
1901 deaths
U.S. state supreme court judges admitted to the practice of law by reading law
People from Caldwell County, Kentucky
19th-century American judges
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