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Justice Michael K. Randolph was appointed to the Mississippi Supreme Court by Gov. Haley Barbour on April 23, 2004. Justice Randolph was appointed to serve the unexpired term of former Chief Justice Edwin L. Pittman. In November 2004, Justice Randolph was elected to the Supreme Court for an eight year term beginning January 1, 2005. Justice Randolph was born in 1946. He was decorated for heroism in Vietnam. He served as an air traffic controller with the U.S. Army 1st Infantry Division, known as the Big Red One. He was honorably discharged in 1967. During law school he joined the U.S. Naval Reserve. He attended the Naval Justice School in Newport, Rhode Island. He served as an attorney with the Judge Advocate General Corps. He was honorably discharged in 1975. He graduated from Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla., with a B.S. degree in business administration in 1972. He earned his Juris doctorate from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1974, where he served as president of the Law School Student Body. Justice Randolph has practiced law since 1975, first in Biloxi with the firm of Ross, King and Randolph, then with the firm of Bryan, Nelson, Allen and Schroder in Pascagoula, Biloxi and Gulfport. He opened the Hattiesburg office of Bryan, Nelson, Allen and Schroder in 1976. He practiced law in Hattiesburg with Bryan Nelson Randolph, PA. until his appointment to the Supreme Court Justice Randolph is listed in the Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Pre-Eminent Lawyers, A.M. Best's Directory of Recommended Insurance Attorneys and The Insurance Bar. Justice Randolph's legal experience includes extensive state and federal court practice. He primarily did defense practice, although he represented plaintiffs as well. He served as regional trial counsel for numerous corporate defendants, as well as national trial counsel for various manufacturing defendants. He defended physicians, hospitals, nursing homes and home health agencies. He did arson and fraud insurance defense. He also has experience in general maritime law and the Jones Act, which involves claims by injured seamen. His presentations include "Renewal of Two Party System in Mississippi" at the Stennis Institute of Government at Mississippi State University; "Excess Insurer Duties," to the Mississippi Claims Association; "Insurance Application Integrity," Association of Life Underwriters; "Insurance Law Update," Southeastern Claims Executives Association; "Medical Record Integrity," Independent Physicians Network; "Arson Investigation," State Farm Insurance Company; "Uninsured Motorists Claims," Guide One Insurance Group; "Claims Handling," Southern Guaranty Insurance Company; and "Claim Issues," Farm Bureau Insurance Companies. Justice Randolph was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to serve on the National Coal Council. He served on the boards of directors of William Carey College, the Boys and Girls Club of Hattiesburg and the Hattiesburg Girls Shelter. He is a member of the advisory board of the Hattiesburg Salvation Army. He is former president of the Hattiesburg Civic Association. He is a member of the Hattiesburg Area Development Partnership. He has generously supported Christian Services Inc., United Way, the Salvation Army, Hattiesburg Boys and Girls Club, Mississippi Children's Home Society, Baptist Children's Village, Home of Grace, the University of Mississippi, the University of Southern Mississippi and William Carey College. He served as president of the South Central Mississippi Bar Association in 1986 and served on the Mississippi Bar Committee on Continuing Legal Education 1975-76. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit, and the South Central Mississippi Bar Association. Justice Randolph is a member of Temple Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, where he serves as a deacon and Sunday School teacher. He has served on the Finance Committee and the By-Laws Committee. Justice Randolph is married to Kathy Webb Randolph, formerly of Ocean Springs. He has three children and three grandchildren. | 