T. Frank Hobson

Tolbert Frank Hobson (August 1, 1900 – August 3, 1966) was a justice of the Florida Supreme Court from 1948 to 1962.

Hobson was born in Hagler, Alabama in 1900 but grew up in Jacksonville, Florida. Hobson attended Duval County schools and Marion Military Institute in Alabama. He graduated from Wake Forest University in 1922 and married Mabel Miller the following year. Hobson then attended Stetson University College of Law, graduating in 1924 and passing the bar the same year. He began his legal practice in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1925, and joined the board of law examiners in 1926. In 1928, Hobson was appointed to the Sixth Judicial Circuit Court, in Pinellas County and served for 20 years.

Governor Millard F. Caldwell appointed Hobson to fill Rivers H. Buford's vacancy on the Florida Supreme Court in 1948, and he assumed the role on April 6. He was named chief justice in January 1953, though he relinquished this role due to health problems on March 14. Hobson died of a heart attack at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland on August 3, 1966. He had been in the hospital for a checkup with a heart specialist. His wife Mabel died on March 8, 1994.