Willis Alston Hawkins (died November 28, 1886)"Judge Hawkins Dead", Savannah Morning News (November 29, 1886), p. 1. was a justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia in 1880.
Hawkins was born in Madison County, Georgia.Lucian Lamar Knight, Georgia's landmarks, memorials, and legends (1913), p. 777.
On September 10, 1880, Governor Alfred H. Colquitt "made the temporary appointment of Col. Willis A. Hawkins, of Sumter County, as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia for the two months between this and the assembling of the Legislature in November".
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