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 2009 / Active

James D. Maxwell II

Judge, Court of Appeals of Mississippi

James D. Maxwell II is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Mississippi (14 judges, selected by nonpartisan election), serving since 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Court of Appeals of Mississippi	–	–

Education

University of Mississippi
University of Mississippi

Judicial Record

In our data, Maxwell authored 334 published opinions for the court (2009–2015), plus 9 dissents and 21 concurrences. Most cited: Hughes v. State (140 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. 364 of these were attributed to Maxwell 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
2012	Hughes v. State†	106 So. 3d 836	140
2013	Williams v. State†	110 So. 3d 840	79
2011	Hill v. State†	60 So. 3d 824	54
2011	Evans v. Evans†	75 So. 3d 1083	52
2011	Rhodes v. Rhodes†	52 So. 3d 430	48
2013	Bradley v. Kelley Bros. Contractors, Inc.†	117 So. 3d 331	46
2009	Robinson v. State†	19 So. 3d 140	43
2013	Woods v. Victory Marketing, LLC†	111 So. 3d 1234	42
2013	Evans v. State†	115 So. 3d 879	38
2013	Faulkner v. State†	109 So. 3d 142	36
2011	Johnson v. State†	94 So. 3d 1209	33
2012	Carter v. Carter†	98 So. 3d 1109	28
2010	Mayers v. State· Concurrence†	42 So. 3d 33	28
2010	Clark v. Clark†	43 So. 3d 496	28
2009	Montgomery v. Montgomery†	20 So. 3d 39	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 364 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 James D. Maxwell II on?: James D. Maxwell II is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Mississippi.

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17 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).