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 2016 / Active

Jim M Greenlee

Judge, Court of Appeals of Mississippi

Jim M Greenlee is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Mississippi, serving since 2016. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2016 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2016	Court of Appeals of Mississippi	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Greenlee authored 195 published opinions for the court (2016–2024), plus 3 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Grace Ann McCarty v. State of Mississippi (20 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. 115 of these were attributed to Greenlee 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
2017	Grace Ann McCarty v. State of Mississippi· Dissent†	247 So. 3d 260	20
2017	John William Mayton v. Jane Oliver· Concurrence†	247 So. 3d 312	19
2018	Skylar O'Kelly v. State of Mississippi· Concurrence†	267 So. 3d 282	13
2016	Pearlie Wright v. R.M.Smith Investments, L.P.†	210 So. 3d 555	13
2017	Jones v. City of Hattiesburg†	228 So. 3d 816	10
2016	Lawrence Reed v. State of Mississippi†	204 So. 3d 785	10
2018	Greg Massey v. Oasis Health & Rehab of Yazoo City, LLC· Concurrence†	269 So. 3d 1242	9
2018	Roger Dale Latham v. Terry W. Johnson· Concurrence†	262 So. 3d 569	9
2018	Ashley Bryant v. State of Mississippi†	238 So. 3d 1213	9
2017	Khavaris Hill v. Hinds County, Mississippi†	237 So. 3d 838	9
2017	Bobby Campbell v. State of Mississippi†	233 So. 3d 904	9
2016	Wendell Hayes v. State of Mississippi†	203 So. 3d 1144	9
2016	Faith Abercrombie v. Jonathan Abercrombie†	193 So. 3d 680	9
2016	Armstrong Knight v. State of Mississippi†	192 So. 3d 360	9
2018	Craig Bridgeman v. SBC Internet Services, Inc.†	270 So. 3d 112	8

Showing the 15 most-cited of 206 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 Jim M Greenlee on?: Jim M Greenlee is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Mississippi.

Sources

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10 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).