Alan M. Prewitt (February 1, 1893 – February 17, 1963) was a justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court in 1937, and from 1941 to 1963.
Born in Grand Junction, Tennessee,[1][2] Prewitt graduated from Vanderbilt University Law School, where he was captain of the Vanderbilt Commodores basketball team.[1] He served in combat overseas during World War I,[2] and later practiced law in Bolivar, Tennessee, where he "took all kinds of cases to keep eating".[1]
He was appointed as a special judge of the Tennessee Court of Appeals in 1934,[2] and as a special judge of the Tennessee Supreme Court in 1937,[2] and again from April 1941 to March 1942, to assist in the absence of ailing justice W. L. Cook.[1] Prewitt was elected in his own right in 1942, and re-elected in 1950 and 1958. On February 1, 1960, he was elected chief justice to succeed A. B. Neil, who had retired.[1][2]
Prewitt served in that capacity until his death due to a heart ailment at the age of 70.[1]
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