Horatio F. Simrall

Horatio F. Simrall (February 6, 1818 – August 15, 1901) was an attorney in Kentucky and Mississippi who served as chief justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court under the 1869 constitution. Some accounts also indicate that he served as lieutenant governor of Kentucky's Confederate government.

Early life Simrall was born near Shelbyville in Shelby County, Kentucky. Some accounts indicate that Simrall was elected lieutenant governor of Kentucky's Confederate government at the Russellville Convention in 1861. He fled to his plantation in Wilkinson County, Mississippi shortly thereafter to escape Federal authorities. Under the constitution of 1869, judges were selected by appointment of the governor with the advice and consent of the Senate. The first bench thus constructed consisted of Chief Justice Peyton, with Simrall and Jonathan Tarbell as associate justices.

In 1870 he was appointed one of the trustees of the University of Mississippi by Governor James L. Alcorn. In 1881 that institution conferred upon him the degree of LL.D.