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 2015 / Active

Jack L Wilson

Judge, Court of Appeals of Mississippi

Jack L Wilson is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Mississippi, serving since 2015. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2015 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2015	Court of Appeals of Mississippi	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Wilson authored 319 published opinions for the court (2015–2025), plus 16 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: Jimmy Shinn v. State of Mississippi (32 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. 214 of these were attributed to Wilson 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
2015	Jimmy Shinn v. State of Mississippi†	174 So. 3d 961	32
2017	Jeffrey Jack Stroh v. Nancy Jane Zehr Stroh†	221 So. 3d 399	30
2017	Jeffrey Lance Hill v. State of Mississippi†	215 So. 3d 518	30
2017	Robert Allen Worth v. State of Mississippi†	223 So. 3d 844	28
2015	John F. Layton, Jr. v. Amanda Reece Layton†	181 So. 3d 275	28
2017	Amaria Vassar v. David Vassar†	228 So. 3d 367	26
2017	Akeem Rasheed v. State of Mississippi†	237 So. 3d 822	26
2016	The City of Hattiesburg, Mississippi v. Precision Construction, LLC†	192 So. 3d 1089	25
2016	Barbara Jones v. Wal-Mart Stores East, LP†	187 So. 3d 1100	25
2017	Jacob Reynolds v. State of Mississippi†	227 So. 3d 428	23
2017	Jerrard T. Cook v. State of Mississippi†	242 So. 3d 865	22
2018	Ernest T. Jones v. Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning†	264 So. 3d 9	21
2017	Grace Ann McCarty v. State of Mississippi†	247 So. 3d 260	20
2017	Stroud Ex Rel. Stroud v. Progressive Gulf Ins. Co.†	239 So. 3d 516	20
2018	Adam Heisinger v. Priscilla Riley†	243 So. 3d 248	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 347 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 Jack L Wilson on?: Jack L Wilson is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Mississippi.

Sources

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11 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).