How do judges of the Supreme Court of Mississippi reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Mississippi / Joined 1937 / Served to 1964

A. Harvey McGehee

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

A. Harvey McGehee was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1937. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1887–1965
Tenure: 1937–1964 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1937	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McGehee authored 984 published opinions for the court (1937–1963), plus 47 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: Smith v. State (86 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 414 of these were attributed to McGehee by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1945	Smith v. State	20 So. 2d 701	86
1942	Sample v. Romine· Separate	8 So. 2d 257	77
1946	California Co. v. State Oil & Gas Board	27 So. 2d 542	72
1946	Koenig v. Calcote Et Ux.	25 So. 2d 763	64
1943	Lee v. Memphis Pub. Co.	14 So. 2d 351	55
1941	Dixie Greyhound Lines, Inc. v. Mississippi Public Service Commission	200 So. 579	52
1952	Mississippi Baptist Hospital v. Holmes†	56 So. 2d 709	51
1951	City of Meridian v. Davidson†	53 So. 2d 48	51
1951	Planters Wholesale Grocery v. Kincade· Dissent†	50 So. 2d 578	51
1950	Lucedale Veneer Co. v. Rogers· Dissent†	48 So. 2d 148	51
1944	D. L. Fair Lumber Co. v. Weems	16 So. 2d 770	51
1938	Sumter Lbr. Co. Inc. v. Skipper· Separate	184 So. 296	51
1939	Texas Co. v. Wheeless	187 So. 880	48
1958	BALLARD, MAYOR, ETC. v. Smith	107 So. 2d 580	42
1953	Cowart v. PEARL RIVER TUNG CO.	67 So. 2d 356	42

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,071 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Supreme Court of Mississippi reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was A. Harvey McGehee on?: A. Harvey McGehee was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Sources

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27 years on the Supreme Court of Mississippi. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).