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 1894 / Served to 1910

Albert Hall Whitfield

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Albert Hall Whitfield was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi (7 judges, selected by nonpartisan election), who joined the court in 1894. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1849–1918
Tenure: 1894–1910 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1894	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

University of Mississippi
University of Mississippi

Judicial Record

In our data, Whitfield authored 554 published opinions for the court (1894–1910), plus 11 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: Temple v. McComb City Electric Light & Power Co. (70 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. 575 of these were attributed to Whitfield 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
1906	Temple v. McComb City Electric Light & Power Co.†	89 Miss. 1	70
1905	State ex rel. Greaves v. Henry· Dissent†	87 Miss. 125	57
1896	Tucker v. Tucker· Concurrence†	74 Miss. 93	52
1896	Williams v. State†	73 Miss. 820	50
1895	Richberger v. American Express Co.†	73 Miss. 161	42
1895	Union Mortgage, Banking & Trust Co. v. Peters & Trezevant· Dissent†	72 Miss. 1058	41
1898	Brown v. Weaver†	76 Miss. 7	35
1908	Spears v. State†	92 Miss. 613	33
1907	McHenry v. State†	91 Miss. 562	33
1901	Alabama & Vicksburg Railway Co. v. Beardsley†	79 Miss. 417	31
1896	Clayton v. Clark· Concurrence†	74 Miss. 499	31
1894	Home Insurance Co. of New York v. Gibson†	72 Miss. 58	31
1908	Sherrod v. State†	93 Miss. 774	30
1895	Foster v. Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad†	72 Miss. 886	29
1900	Canton Cotton Warehouse Co. v. Pool†	78 Miss. 147	26

Showing the 15 most-cited of 577 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 Albert Hall Whitfield on?: Albert Hall Whitfield was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

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16 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).