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 1982 / Served to 1998

Dan M. Lee

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Dan M. Lee was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1926–2010
Tenure: 1982–1998 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

University of Southern Mississippi

Judicial Record

In our data, Lee authored 49 published opinions for the court (1993–1997), plus 10 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Davis v. State (393 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. 29 of these were attributed to Lee 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	Davis v. State	660 So. 2d 1228	393
1996	Brown v. State	682 So. 2d 340	255
1994	Harrison v. State	635 So. 2d 894	247
1995	Russell v. State	670 So. 2d 816	214
1997	Howard v. State	701 So. 2d 274	204
1996	Wilbourn v. Stennett, Wilkinson & Ward	687 So. 2d 1205	127
1994	Hedge v. Leggett & Platt, Inc.†	641 So. 2d 9	92
1994	Richardson v. APAC-Mississippi, Inc.· Concurrence†	631 So. 2d 143	91
1995	Smith v. Jones· Dissent†	654 So. 2d 480	81
1995	Fordice v. Bryan· Dissent†	651 So. 2d 998	60
1997	Wright v. White	693 So. 2d 898	44
1996	Junior Food Stores, Inc. v. Rice	671 So. 2d 67	43
1993	Miss. Com'n on Jud. Perf. v. Chinn	611 So. 2d 849	39
1996	MISSISSIPPI FARM BUREAU CAS. v. Curtis	678 So. 2d 983	31
1995	Ales v. Ales· Dissent†	650 So. 2d 482	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 62 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 Dan M. Lee on?: Dan M. Lee was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Sources

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16 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).