Thomas J. Lacy

Thomas J. Lacy (c. 1806 – January 11, 1849) was a justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, serving as one of the first three members of the court from 1836 to 1845. according to some sources, "graduating at the top of his class in 1825". In 1842, Lacy wrote a decision in a case that sparked political controversy, described as follows:

On the expiration of his first official term he was re-elected without opposition, but in 1845, was compelled, by failing health, to resign. In search of a more congenial climate, he went to New Orleans, where he died of cholera at the age of 43.