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 2000 / Served to 2008

Charles Easley

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Charles Easley was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1950 · age 76
Tenure: 2000–2008 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

University of Mississippi
University of Mississippi

Judicial Record

In our data, Easley authored 34 published opinions for the court (2001–2008), plus 4 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Howell v. State (267 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. 42 of these were attributed to Easley 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
2003	Howell v. State	860 So. 2d 704	267
2006	Spicer v. State· Concurrence†	921 So. 2d 292	184
2002	Knox v. State· Concurrence†	805 So. 2d 527	112
2006	Moss v. Batesville Casket Co., Inc.†	935 So. 2d 393	98
2002	Nichols v. State†	826 So. 2d 1288	67
2003	Southern v. Mississippi State Hospital†	853 So. 2d 1212	43
2003	Johnson v. City of Cleveland· Dissent†	846 So. 2d 1031	37
2007	Jones v. State†	962 So. 2d 1263	33
2004	Doss v. State· Dissent†	882 So. 2d 176	31
2004	Fairley v. George County· Concurrence†	871 So. 2d 713	29
2002	The Interest of S.A.M.†	826 So. 2d 1266	28
2006	J.P.M. v. T.D.M.· Concurrence†	932 So. 2d 760	25
2004	Easter v. State†	878 So. 2d 10	23
2004	May v. Harrison County Department of Human Services†	883 So. 2d 74	16
2003	Elkins v. McKenzie	865 So. 2d 1065	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 46 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 Charles Easley on?: Charles Easley was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Sources

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8 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).