How do judges of the Supreme Court of Mississippi reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

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David Ishee

Associate Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

David Ishee is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi (7 judges, selected by nonpartisan election), serving since 2017. He previously served on the Court of Appeals of Mississippi. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2017 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2004	Court of Appeals of Mississippi	–	–
2017	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

University of Southern Mississippi

Judicial Record

In our data, Ishee authored 570 published opinions for the court (2005–2019), plus 28 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Rex Distributing Company, Inc. v. Anheuser-Busch, LLC (41 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. 580 of these were attributed to Ishee 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
2019	Rex Distributing Company, Inc. v. Anheuser-Busch, LLC†	271 So. 3d 445	41
2009	Fluker v. State†	17 So. 3d 181	40
2019	Devin Ladarious Arrington v. State of Mississippi†	267 So. 3d 753	36
2018	Adam Rosenfelt v. Mississippi Development Authority†	262 So. 3d 511	32
2005	Elkins v. State	918 So. 2d 828	30
2009	Wallace v. Wallace†	12 So. 3d 572	26
2012	Daniels v. Parker and Associates, Inc.†	99 So. 3d 797	25
2013	Taylor v. State†	109 So. 3d 589	24
2005	Covington v. State	909 So. 2d 160	23
2018	Dalton Trigg v. Steven Farese, Sr.†	266 So. 3d 611	22
2017	Curtis Aaron White v. State of Mississippi†	228 So. 3d 893	22
2005	Lowrey v. Lowrey	919 So. 2d 1112	20
2012	Herrington v. State†	102 So. 3d 1241	19
2009	Hults v. Hults†	11 So. 3d 1273	18
2008	Fluker v. State†	2 So. 3d 717	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 605 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 is David Ishee on?: David Ishee is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Sources

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9 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).