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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Court of Appeals of Mississippi / Joined 2004 / Active

Donna M. Barnes

Judge, Court of Appeals of Mississippi

Donna M. Barnes is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Mississippi, serving since 2004. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2004 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

University of Mississippi

Judicial Record

In our data, Barnes authored 670 published opinions for the court (2004–2025), plus 17 dissents and 18 concurrences. Most cited: Crosby v. State (51 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. 575 of these were attributed to Barnes 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
2009	Crosby v. State†	16 So. 3d 74	51
2011	Weible v. University of Southern Mississippi†	89 So. 3d 51	38
2009	Ross v. State†	16 So. 3d 47	38
2010	Chandler v. State†	44 So. 3d 442	36
2015	Kevin Thomas v. State of Mississippi†	159 So. 3d 1212	30
2017	Gregory Tyler Moore v. State of Mississippi†	248 So. 3d 845	29
2010	Phillips v. Phillips†	45 So. 3d 684	26
2011	Wilson v. State	76 So. 3d 733	23
2009	Borne v. DUNLOP TIRE CORP., INC.†	12 So. 3d 565	23
2008	Jamison v. Barnes· Dissent†	8 So. 3d 238	23
2007	Doe v. Pontotoc County School District†	957 So. 2d 410	23
2016	Kevin Brown v. State of Mississippi†	187 So. 3d 667	22
2015	Dexter Johnson v. State of Mississippi†	196 So. 3d 973	22
2012	Ladd v. State†	87 So. 3d 1108	21
2017	Jamie Lynn Orr v. Mallory Morgan†	230 So. 3d 368	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 705 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 Court of Appeals of Mississippi reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court is Donna M. Barnes on?: Donna M. Barnes is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Mississippi.

Sources

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22 years on the Court of Appeals of Mississippi. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).