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 1961 / Served to 1976

Henry Lee Rodgers

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Henry Lee Rodgers was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1961. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1903 · age 123
Tenure: 1961–1976 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1961	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Rodgers authored 535 published opinions for the court (1961–1976), plus 9 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: Carr v. State (323 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. 265 of these were attributed to Rodgers 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
1968	Carr v. State	208 So. 2d 886	323
1962	Fowler Butane Gas Co. v. Varner	141 So. 2d 226	113
1965	Burns v. Washington Savings & Great Southern Savings & Loan Ass'n	171 So. 2d 322	89
1964	King v. State	168 So. 2d 637	86
1974	Shanklin v. State	290 So. 2d 625	84
1968	Armstrong v. State	214 So. 2d 589	76
1974	Ford Motor Company v. Matthews	291 So. 2d 169	74
1967	Newburn v. State	205 So. 2d 260	74
1969	MISSISSIPPI ST. TAX COM'N v. Mississippi-Alabama St. F.	222 So. 2d 664	72
1971	Hamburg v. State	248 So. 2d 430	69
1967	May v. State	199 So. 2d 635	67
1968	Bucklew v. State	206 So. 2d 200	65
1968	Harvey v. State	207 So. 2d 108	64
1967	Stanley v. Morgan & Lindsey, Inc.	203 So. 2d 473	63
1971	Travelers Indemnity Company v. Chappell	246 So. 2d 498	58

Showing the 15 most-cited of 558 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 Henry Lee Rodgers on?: Henry Lee Rodgers was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Sources

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15 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).