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 1989 / Served to 2004

Edwin L. Pittman

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Edwin L. Pittman was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1935 · age 91
Tenure: 1989–2004 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

University of Southern Mississippi

Judicial Record

In our data, Pittman authored 176 published opinions for the court (1989–2004), plus 6 dissents. Most cited: Armstrong v. Armstrong (417 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. 98 of these were attributed to Pittman 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
1993	Armstrong v. Armstrong†	618 So. 2d 1278	417
1994	Hemsley v. Hemsley	639 So. 2d 909	413
1996	Taylor v. State	672 So. 2d 1246	406
1996	Davis v. State†	684 So. 2d 643	301
1989	Davis v. State†	551 So. 2d 165	289
1996	Peterson v. State· Dissent†	671 So. 2d 647	202
1997	Kolberg v. State	704 So. 2d 1307	199
1995	Palmer v. Anderson Infirmary Benevolent Ass'n	656 So. 2d 790	190
1990	Schmitt v. State	560 So. 2d 148	152
1997	Simon v. State†	688 So. 2d 791	136
1996	Sanders v. State	678 So. 2d 663	128
1990	Owens-Illinois, Inc. v. Edwards	573 So. 2d 704	84
2000	Sykes v. State†	757 So. 2d 997	82
1992	Patterson v. State†	594 So. 2d 606	80
1994	Murphy v. Murphy†	631 So. 2d 812	74

Showing the 15 most-cited of 183 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 Edwin L. Pittman on?: Edwin L. Pittman was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Sources

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15 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).