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 2009 / Former Justice

David A. Chandler

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

David A. Chandler was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi (7 judges, selected by nonpartisan election), who joined the court in 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1946 · age 80
Tenure: 2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

Mississippi State University

Judicial Record

In our data, Chandler authored 118 published opinions for the court (2009–2015), plus 30 dissents and 21 concurrences. Most cited: Batiste v. State (151 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. 169 of these were attributed to Chandler 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
2013	Batiste v. State†	121 So. 3d 808	151
2012	Conners v. State†	92 So. 3d 676	120
2010	Gillett v. State· Concurrence†	56 So. 3d 469	115
2009	Neal v. State†	15 So. 3d 388	104
2014	Corrothers v. State†	148 So. 3d 278	99
2014	Conner v. State†	138 So. 3d 143	80
2009	Doss v. State· Concurrence†	19 So. 3d 690	77
2009	Young v. Guild†	7 So. 3d 251	74
2014	Harrell v. State· Dissent†	134 So. 3d 266	73
2014	Donald Keith Smith v. State of Mississippi†	149 So. 3d 1027	71
2009	Mississippi Methodist Hospital & Rehabilitation Center, Inc. v. Mississippi Division of Medicaid†	21 So. 3d 600	69
2009	Corporate Management, Inc. v. Greene County†	23 So. 3d 454	67
2011	Harden v. State†	59 So. 3d 594	63
2010	Sawyers v. Herrin-Gear Chevrolet Co., Inc.· Dissent†	26 So. 3d 1026	62
2010	Trim v. Trim†	33 So. 3d 471	61

Showing the 15 most-cited of 170 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 David A. Chandler on?: David A. Chandler was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Sources

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17 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).