Michael D. Sullivan

Michael David Sullivan (December 2, 1938 – February 27, 2000) was a justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi from 1984 until his death in 2000. Sullivan was appointed by Mississippi governor Bill Allain in 1984 and reelected. From 1975 until his Supreme Court appointment he was a chancery court judge.

Sullivan married Nancy Ezelle Sullivan, with whom he had two children, David Paul and Rachel Michel. They divorced, and then he married Catherine Carter Sullivan, with whom he had two children, Margaret Elizabeth and Sarah Catherine. A portrait of him by Bill Wilson was commissioned for the Mississippi Supreme Court. Sullivan ran unopposed for reelection to the seat in the November 1984 election.

Sullivan died from lung cancer at his home in Jackson, Mississippi, at the age of 61.