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 2012 / Active

Eugene L. Fair Jr.

Judge, Court of Appeals of Mississippi

Eugene L. Fair Jr. is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Mississippi (14 judges, selected by nonpartisan election), serving since 2012. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2012 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2012	Court of Appeals of Mississippi	–	–

Education

University of Mississippi

Judicial Record

In our data, Fair authored 325 published opinions for the court (2012–2018), plus 9 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Hall v. Hall (44 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. 338 of these were attributed to Fair 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
2014	Hall v. Hall†	134 So. 3d 822	44
2012	Blakely v. Blakely†	88 So. 3d 798	35
2018	David Nichols v. State of Mississippi†	265 So. 3d 1239	31
2014	Jefferson v. State†	138 So. 3d 263	28
2012	Archer v. State†	118 So. 3d 612	25
2016	Jesse Lee Walker v. State of Mississippi†	197 So. 3d 914	19
2012	McCray v. State†	107 So. 3d 1042	17
2014	Bosarge v. State†	141 So. 3d 24	16
2018	Clarence Lovett v. State of Mississippi†	270 So. 3d 133	15
2015	William W. Satterfield v. State of Mississippi†	158 So. 3d 380	15
2015	Chris Clausell v. Jeffrey Bourque†	158 So. 3d 384	15
2013	Carlson v. City of Ridgeland†	131 So. 3d 1220	15
2012	Rolison v. Rolison†	105 So. 3d 1136	15
2015	Marc L. Fairchild v. John Bilbo†	166 So. 3d 601	11
2014	Jack H. Wilson, Jr. v. Joy Elizabeth Stewart†	171 So. 3d 522	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 338 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 Eugene L. Fair Jr. on?: Eugene L. Fair Jr. is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Mississippi.

Sources

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14 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).