Chuck McRae
Chuck McRae (born c. 1939) is an American retired judge who served on the Mississippi Supreme Court from 1990 to 2004. He studied at Marietta College in Ohio, taught in Mississippi and Florida, and worked as a lawyer in Gulfport, Mississippi. He entered politics to win a seat on the court that was held by Joel Blass, who had been appointed after the death of Ruble Griffin. McRae campaigned aggressively, using ads and statewide traveling to defeat Blass in the Democratic primary.
McRae won reelection in 1994 by default when his Republican opponent withdrew to accept another office; the substitution of another candidate was ruled to violate election law. He was censured in 1997.
A 2003 Forbes article described him as favoring plaintiffs and receiving most of his campaign funding from plaintiff lawyers, contrasting him with his successor, Jess Dickinson, who was seen as more favorable to business.
In 2017, McRae was in an intensive care unit after a scuba diving accident. He has one daughter.
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