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 1903 / Served to 1906

Jeff Truly

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Jeff Truly was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1903. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1861–1946
Tenure: 1903–1906 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1903	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Truly authored 137 published opinions for the court (1903–1906), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: McCaughn v. Young (55 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. 139 of these were attributed to Truly 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
1904	McCaughn v. Young†	85 Miss. 277	55
1905	Hart v. State†	87 Miss. 171	30
1905	Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad v. Williams†	87 Miss. 344	27
1903	Anderson v. State†	82 Miss. 784	22
1904	Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad v. Searles†	85 Miss. 520	21
1904	Fuller v. State†	85 Miss. 199	20
1904	Fowlkes v. Lea· Dissent†	84 Miss. 509	20
1903	Ball v. Sledge†	82 Miss. 747	19
1905	Wills v. Reed†	86 Miss. 446	18
1904	Walker v. Williams†	84 Miss. 392	18
1903	Marion County v. Foxworth†	83 Miss. 677	18
1905	Fikes v. State†	87 Miss. 251	16
1904	Illinois Central Railroad v. Clarke†	85 Miss. 691	16
1904	City of Canton v. Canton Cotton Warehouse Co.†	84 Miss. 268	15
1904	Alexander v. Zeigler†	84 Miss. 560	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 140 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 Jeff Truly on?: Jeff Truly was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

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3 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).