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 1983 / Served to 1992

James L. Robertson

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

James L. Robertson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1940 · age 86
Tenure: 1983–1992 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Robertson authored 216 published opinions for the court (1983–1992), plus 10 dissents and 24 concurrences. Most cited: Neal v. State (666 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. 116 of these were attributed to Robertson 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
1984	Neal v. State	451 So. 2d 743	666
1991	Hansen v. State	592 So. 2d 114	521
1984	May v. State	460 So. 2d 778	475
1987	McFee v. State· Concurrence†	511 So. 2d 130	451
1987	Cole v. State· Concurrence†	525 So. 2d 365	352
1985	Cabello v. State· Concurrence†	471 So. 2d 332	348
1984	Jones v. State	461 So. 2d 686	325
1989	Mease v. State	539 So. 2d 1324	318
1988	Pinkney v. State· Dissent†	538 So. 2d 329	316
1989	West v. State	553 So. 2d 8	295
1989	Davis v. State· Concurrence†	551 So. 2d 165	289
1988	Houston v. State	531 So. 2d 598	262
1984	Moffett v. State	456 So. 2d 714	255
1987	Jones v. State· Concurrence†	517 So. 2d 1295	241
1988	Clemons v. State· Dissent†	535 So. 2d 1354	235

Showing the 15 most-cited of 250 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 L. Robertson on?: James L. Robertson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

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9 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).