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 1973 / Served to 1987

Harry Grey Walker

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Harry Grey Walker was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1973. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1924–2000
Tenure: 1973–1987 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1973	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Walker authored 219 published opinions for the court (1973–1987), plus 11 dissents. Most cited: Cole v. State (352 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. 136 of these were attributed to Walker 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
1987	Cole v. State†	525 So. 2d 365	352
1983	Leatherwood v. State	435 So. 2d 645	309
1984	Booker v. State	449 So. 2d 209	264
1985	Leatherwood v. State	473 So. 2d 964	246
1986	Smith v. State	499 So. 2d 750	244
1983	Dycus v. State	440 So. 2d 246	228
1987	Galloway v. Travelers Ins. Co.	515 So. 2d 678	157
1978	Odom v. State	355 So. 2d 1381	120
1982	In Re Anderson	412 So. 2d 743	106
1984	Jesco, Inc. v. Whitehead	451 So. 2d 706	96
1984	Bourn v. Tomlinson Interest, Inc.	456 So. 2d 747	73
1983	Robinson v. State	434 So. 2d 206	72
1985	Luckett v. Mississippi Wood Inc.· Dissent†	481 So. 2d 288	69
1974	Rush v. State	301 So. 2d 297	66
1982	Hickombottom v. State†	409 So. 2d 1337	65

Showing the 15 most-cited of 231 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 Harry Grey Walker on?: Harry Grey Walker was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Sources

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14 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).