William W. Drummond

William Wormer Drummond (died November 20, 1888) was a justice of the Supreme Court of the Utah Territory from 1855 to 1857.

Born in Virginia, Drummond was raised and educated to enter legal practice, moving to Chicago in 1851 for that purpose. He practiced briefly in that city, and became involved in Democratic Party politics, until he was appointed by President Franklin Pierce to serve as a justice of the Utah Territory. Drummond immediately came into conflict with Brigham Young and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), which controlled the territorial legislature, and at one point Drummond was placed under house arrest by a probate judge appointed by the legislature.

Within a few years, Drummond left, with some accounts attributing this to his determination that the Mormon population "refused to submit to civil authority", These claims helped to precipitate the Utah War, in which President James Buchanan sent U.S. forces to the territory to quell perceived efforts to form a tyrannical rule over it.