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 2001 / Served to 2012

George C. Carlson Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

George C. Carlson Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1946 · age 80
Tenure: 2001–2012 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

Mississippi State University

Judicial Record

In our data, Carlson authored 150 published opinions for the court (2002–2012), plus 14 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: Conners v. State (120 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. 164 of these were attributed to Carlson 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	Conners v. State· Concurrence†	92 So. 3d 676	120
2009	Davis v. State†	18 So. 3d 842	107
2012	Bailey v. State†	78 So. 3d 308	95
2003	McGowen v. State†	859 So. 2d 320	86
2010	Buckel v. Chaney†	47 So. 3d 148	84
2012	Epperson v. Southbank†	93 So. 3d 10	76
2009	Price v. Clark†	21 So. 3d 509	75
2009	Vaughn v. Mississippi Baptist Medical Center†	20 So. 3d 645	68
2012	Mississippi Transportation Commission v. Montgomery†	80 So. 3d 789	62
2010	Sawyers v. Herrin-Gear Chevrolet Co., Inc.†	26 So. 3d 1026	62
2012	Pratt v. Gulfport-Biloxi Regional Airport Authority†	97 So. 3d 68	61
2009	McDonald v. Memorial Hospital at Gulfport†	8 So. 3d 175	61
2006	M.W.F. v. D.D.F.†	926 So. 2d 897	59
2012	Jenkins v. State†	102 So. 3d 1063	56
2005	City of Picayune v. Southern Regional Corp.†	916 So. 2d 510	56

Showing the 15 most-cited of 177 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 George C. Carlson Jr. on?: George C. Carlson Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Sources

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11 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).