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 2011 / Served to 2013

Ermea Russell

Judge, Court of Appeals of Mississippi

Ermea Russell was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Mississippi (14 judges, selected by nonpartisan election), who joined the court in 2011. They previously served on the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2011–2013 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–
2011	Court of Appeals of Mississippi	–	–

Education

University of West Alabama

Judicial Record

In our data, Russell authored 64 published opinions for the court (2011–2012), plus 17 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: Parmenter v. J & B Enterprises, Inc. (24 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. 89 of these were attributed to Russell 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
2012	Parmenter v. J & B Enterprises, Inc.†	99 So. 3d 207	24
2011	Haggard v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.†	75 So. 3d 1120	22
2011	Mangum v. Mississippi Parole Board†	76 So. 3d 762	16
2012	Watson v. State†	100 So. 3d 1034	13
2012	Garrett v. State†	110 So. 3d 790	13
2011	Love v. Love	74 So. 3d 928	12
2012	Watts v. Watts· Concurrence†	99 So. 3d 751	11
2012	Bradford v. State†	102 So. 3d 312	10
2012	Barrow v. May· Dissent†	107 So. 3d 1029	10
2012	Taylor v. Bell†	87 So. 3d 1134	10
2012	Carter v. Reddix†	115 So. 3d 851	9
2012	Crow v. Crow's Sports Center, Inc.· Concurrence†	119 So. 3d 352	9
2012	Fair v. State†	93 So. 3d 56	9
2012	Fontenot v. State· Dissent†	110 So. 3d 800	8
2012	Campbell v. State†	118 So. 3d 598	8

Showing the 15 most-cited of 92 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 was Ermea Russell on?: Ermea Russell was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Mississippi.

Sources

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1 year 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).