What happened to Kay B. Cobb?

Kay B. Cobb died at her home in Lenoir City, Tennessee, on May 26, 2023, at age 81. No cause of death was disclosed.

She was appointed to the Supreme Court of Mississippi by Governor Kirk Fordice on April 1, 1999, to complete the unexpired term of former Justice Charles L. Roberts Jr. She was elected to a full term on the court in November 2000 and served until her retirement on May 1, 2007.

Born on February 28, 1942, she taught elementary school in the 1960s to children of military personnel for three years. Later, she worked for the Texas Employment Commission for five years as a job replacement counselor for the handicapped and for people who had freshly been released from prison.

From 1992 to 1996, Cobb represented Mississippi’s 9th senatorial district in the Mississippi Senate. She was a Republic party member who lived in Oxford and represented Lafayette County.

“I was always so proud of her because she paved the way for the rest of us. She set a tremendous example for other women to follow,” her sister-in-law, Chancellor Vicki Cobb Daniels, shared.