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 1991 / Served to 2004

Charles R. McRae

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Charles R. McRae was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1991–2004 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

Marietta College

Judicial Record

In our data, McRae authored 127 published opinions for the court (1991–2003), plus 90 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: Conner v. State (409 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. 164 of these were attributed to McRae 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
1994	Conner v. State	632 So. 2d 1239	409
1996	Jackson v. State	684 So. 2d 1213	290
1997	Wells v. State· Dissent†	698 So. 2d 497	274
1996	Brown v. State	690 So. 2d 276	261
1995	Giles v. State	650 So. 2d 846	255
1999	McGilberry v. State· Dissent†	741 So. 2d 894	242
1997	Fuselier v. State	702 So. 2d 388	223
1998	Crawford v. State†	716 So. 2d 1028	197
1995	Vielee v. State	653 So. 2d 920	192
1994	Tharp v. Bunge Corp.	641 So. 2d 20	179
2000	Eskridge v. State	765 So. 2d 508	134
1993	Stevens v. Lake†	615 So. 2d 1177	116
1998	Holly v. State	716 So. 2d 979	100
1996	Bevill v. State†	669 So. 2d 14	98
1995	American Fire Protection, Inc. v. Lewis	653 So. 2d 1387	96

Showing the 15 most-cited of 229 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 R. McRae on?: Charles R. McRae was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Sources

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13 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).