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 2007 / Former Justice

Ann Hannaford Lamar

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Ann Hannaford Lamar was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi (7 judges, selected by nonpartisan election), who joined the court in 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1963 · age 63
Tenure: 2007 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

Delta State University

Judicial Record

In our data, Lamar authored 165 published opinions for the court (2008–2016), plus 16 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Rowland v. State (327 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. 188 of these were attributed to Lamar 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
2010	Rowland v. State†	42 So. 3d 503	327
2013	Karpinsky v. American National Insurance Co.†	109 So. 3d 84	222
2010	Gillett v. State· Concurrence†	56 So. 3d 469	115
2012	Business Communications, Inc. v. Banks· Concurrence†	90 So. 3d 1221	107
2013	Grayer v. State†	120 So. 3d 964	91
2009	Doss v. State· Dissent†	19 So. 3d 690	77
2009	Young v. Guild· Dissent†	7 So. 3d 251	74
2010	Fulgham v. State†	46 So. 3d 315	70
2010	Chamberlin v. State†	55 So. 3d 1046	66
2009	Weathers v. Metropolitan Life Insurance†	14 So. 3d 688	57
2013	Grayson v. State†	118 So. 3d 118	52
2011	Joiner v. State†	61 So. 3d 156	48
2011	McInnis v. State†	61 So. 3d 872	48
2013	Young v. State†	119 So. 3d 309	46
2010	Banyard v. State†	47 So. 3d 676	46

Showing the 15 most-cited of 190 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 Ann Hannaford Lamar on?: Ann Hannaford Lamar was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Sources

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19 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).