Lynn Boyd Watkins (October 9, 1836 – March 2, 1901) was a justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court from April 19, 1886, to March 2, 1901.
Born in Caldwell County, Kentucky, Watkins served in the Confederate States Army and became a District Judge, in Louisiana in 1871.Celebration of the Centenary of the Supreme Court of Louisiana (March 1, 1913), in John Wymond, Henry Plauché Dart, eds., The Louisiana Historical Quarterly (1922), p. 122. His brother J. D. Watkins was a Louisiana state senator.
Watkins died on March 2, 1961, in New Orleans, Louisiana, at the age of 64.
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