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 1992 / Served to 1999

Charles L. Roberts Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Charles L. Roberts Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1945 · age 81
Tenure: 1992–1999 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

Millsaps College

Judicial Record

In our data, Roberts authored 78 published opinions for the court (1947–1999), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Ballenger v. State (508 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. 36 of these were attributed to Roberts 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
1995	Ballenger v. State	667 So. 2d 1242	508
1995	Carr v. State	655 So. 2d 824	403
1997	Doss v. State	709 So. 2d 369	230
1994	Crain v. Cleveland Lodge 1532, Order of Moose, Inc.	641 So. 2d 1186	116
1998	Mizell v. Mizell	708 So. 2d 55	92
1997	Hennington v. State	702 So. 2d 403	83
1993	Hopson v. State	625 So. 2d 395	77
1996	Mohundro v. Alcorn County	675 So. 2d 848	74
1997	Sumrall v. Mississippi Power Co.†	693 So. 2d 359	73
1993	Draper v. Draper	627 So. 2d 302	71
1995	McNeal v. State	658 So. 2d 1345	67
1997	Caracci v. International Paper Co.†	699 So. 2d 546	60
1995	Fordice v. Bryan	651 So. 2d 998	60
1994	Powell v. Powell	644 So. 2d 269	58
1997	Turpin v. Turpin	699 So. 2d 560	57

Showing the 15 most-cited of 80 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 L. Roberts Jr. on?: Charles L. Roberts Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Sources

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7 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).