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Kay Beevers Cobb (born February 28, 1942) is a former Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Raised on a farm in Cleveland, Mississippi, Cobb graduated from Mississippi University for Women in 1963. As her husband was in the U.S. Air Force, she then taught elementary school to children of military personnel for three years. She later worked for the Texas Employment Commission for five years as a job placement counselor for the handicapped and for people recently released from prison.

In 1975, Cobb enrolled in the University of Mississippi School of Law in Oxford, Mississippi, where she earned a law degree in 1978.

On April 1, 1999, Cobb was appointed to the Supreme Court of Mississippi by Governor Kirk Fordice, to complete the unexpired term of former Justice James L. Roberts Jr. Cobb was elected to a full term on the court in November 2000, and served until her retirement on May 1, 2007.

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