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 1991 / Served to 2001

Fred L. Banks Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Fred L. Banks Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1942 · age 84
Tenure: 1991–2001 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

Howard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Banks authored 141 published opinions for the court (1991–2001), plus 37 dissents and 23 concurrences. Most cited: MacK v. State (383 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. 121 of these were attributed to Banks 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
1994	MacK v. State	650 So. 2d 1289	383
1997	Wells v. State· Concurrence†	698 So. 2d 497	274
1997	Wilcher v. State· Dissent†	697 So. 2d 1087	242
1997	Snelson v. State	704 So. 2d 452	202
1996	Peterson v. State	671 So. 2d 647	202
1998	Crawford v. State· Concurrence†	716 So. 2d 1028	197
1995	Vielee v. State· Dissent†	653 So. 2d 920	192
2000	City of Jackson v. Perry	764 So. 2d 373	190
2001	Goodin v. State· Concurrence†	787 So. 2d 639	178
2000	Manning v. State· Dissent†	765 So. 2d 516	149
1997	Booker v. State†	699 So. 2d 132	148
1997	Simon v. State· Dissent†	688 So. 2d 791	136
1995	Smith v. State	656 So. 2d 95	114
1991	Adams v. State	583 So. 2d 165	112
1995	Northern Elec. Co. v. Phillips	660 So. 2d 1278	109

Showing the 15 most-cited of 202 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 Fred L. Banks Jr. on?: Fred L. Banks Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Sources

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10 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).