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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Mississippi / Joined 1950 / Served to 1961

James Garrott Holmes

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

James Garrott Holmes was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1950. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1883–1969
Tenure: 1950–1961 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1950	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

Sewanee-The University of the South
University of Mississippi

Judicial Record

In our data, Holmes authored 282 published opinions for the court (1950–1960), plus 13 dissents. Most cited: Pass v. Pass (68 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. 200 of these were attributed to Holmes 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
1960	Pass v. Pass	118 So. 2d 769	68
1956	Lang v. State· Dissent†	87 So. 2d 265	47
1956	Permenter v. Milner Chevrolet Co.· Dissent†	91 So. 2d 243	42
1953	Holcomb v. City of Clarksdale	65 So. 2d 281	42
1956	VanZandt v. VANZANDT	86 So. 2d 466	41
1953	RITCHIE v. City of Brookhaven	65 So. 2d 436	41
1952	Thornhill v. Ford	56 So. 2d 23	39
1955	Laurel Daily Leader, Inc. v. James· Dissent†	80 So. 2d 770	30
1952	Palmer v. Clarksdale Hospital	57 So. 2d 476	28
1960	Continental Oil Company v. Walker	117 So. 2d 333	25
1959	Reed, Mayor, Etc. v. Adams	111 So. 2d 222	25
1958	Horne v. State Building Commission	103 So. 2d 373	25
1954	PERSONS v. Stokes	76 So. 2d 517	25
1954	Livestock Feeds, Inc. v. Local Union No. 1634 of Congress of Ind. Workers	73 So. 2d 128	25
1953	Martin v. Adams, Et Ux.	62 So. 2d 328	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 296 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 James Garrott Holmes on?: James Garrott Holmes 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).