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 1980 / Served to 1995

Armis E. Hawkins

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Armis E. Hawkins was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1980. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1920–2006
Tenure: 1980–1995 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1980	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

Millsaps College

Judicial Record

In our data, Hawkins authored 202 published opinions for the court (1981–1995), plus 19 dissents and 14 concurrences. Most cited: McFee v. State (451 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. 152 of these were attributed to Hawkins 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
1987	McFee v. State· Dissent†	511 So. 2d 130	451
1990	Griffin v. State	557 So. 2d 542	375
1985	Johnson v. State	477 So. 2d 196	354
1987	Cole v. State· Dissent†	525 So. 2d 365	352
1985	Cabello v. State· Dissent†	471 So. 2d 332	348
1989	Mease v. State· Concurrence†	539 So. 2d 1324	318
1983	Hill v. State	432 So. 2d 427	307
1987	Faraga v. State	514 So. 2d 295	301
1986	West v. State	485 So. 2d 681	277
1992	Butler v. State	608 So. 2d 314	253
1990	Bevill v. State	556 So. 2d 699	251
1987	Jones v. State· Separate†	517 So. 2d 1295	241
1988	Clemons v. State· Dissent†	535 So. 2d 1354	235
1989	Johnson v. State	547 So. 2d 59	214
1993	Madden v. Rhodes	626 So. 2d 608	133

Showing the 15 most-cited of 237 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 Armis E. Hawkins on?: Armis E. Hawkins was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Sources

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15 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).