Willis A. Hawkins

Willis Alston Hawkins (died November 28, 1886)[1] was a justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia in 1880.

Hawkins was born in Madison County, Georgia.[2]

On September 10, 1880, Governor Alfred H. Colquitt "made the temporary appointment of Col. Willis A. Hawkins, of Sumter County, as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia for the two months between this and the assembling of the Legislature in November".[3]

  1. ^ "Judge Hawkins Dead", Savannah Morning News (November 29, 1886), p. 1.
  2. ^ Lucian Lamar Knight, Georgia's landmarks, memorials, and legends (1913), p. 777.
  3. ^ "Twenty Georgia Lawyers; Every One of Them Believes Himself Fully Qualified to be a Judge of the Supreme Court of the State". The New York Times. September 11, 1880. p. 2.