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 2004 / Former Justice

Jess H. Dickinson

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Jess H. Dickinson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 2004. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1947 · age 79
Tenure: 2004 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2004	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

Mississippi State University

Judicial Record

In our data, Dickinson authored 220 published opinions for the court (2004–2017), plus 83 dissents and 71 concurrences. Most cited: Goff v. State (189 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. 365 of these were attributed to Dickinson 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
2009	Goff v. State· Concurrence†	14 So. 3d 625	189
2010	Newell v. State· Concurrence†	49 So. 3d 66	187
2010	Pitchford v. State†	45 So. 3d 216	129
2004	Chase v. State	873 So. 2d 1013	107
2012	Bailey v. State· Dissent†	78 So. 3d 308	95
2010	Poole v. State†	46 So. 3d 290	89
2015	Ronk v. State· Concurrence†	172 So. 3d 1112	83
2014	Conner v. State· Concurrence†	138 So. 3d 143	80
2009	Doss v. State· Concurrence†	19 So. 3d 690	77
2017	Laterrence Lenoir v. State of Mississippi· Dissent†	222 So. 3d 273	76
2009	Price v. Clark· Concurrence†	21 So. 3d 509	75
2012	Green v. State· Concurrence†	89 So. 3d 543	65
2011	Bluewater Logistics, LLC v. Williford†	55 So. 3d 148	64
2004	Hersick v. State†	904 So. 2d 116	61
2014	Franklin v. State· Dissent†	136 So. 3d 1021	57

Showing the 15 most-cited of 374 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 Jess H. Dickinson on?: Jess H. Dickinson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Sources

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22 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).