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 1950 / Served to 1965

John W. Kyle

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

John W. Kyle was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1950. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1891–1965
Tenure: 1950–1965 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1950	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

University of Mississippi

Judicial Record

In our data, Kyle authored 424 published opinions for the court (1950–1965), plus 6 dissents. Most cited: Belk v. Rosamond (58 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. 265 of these were attributed to Kyle 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
1952	Belk v. Rosamond	57 So. 2d 461	58
1956	Craft v. State	84 So. 2d 531	52
1954	Rubel, Executors v. Rubel	75 So. 2d 59	48
1954	Walters v. Blackledge	71 So. 2d 433	47
1963	Lyons v. Zale Jewelry Co.	150 So. 2d 154	46
1958	Muse v. Mississippi State Highway Commission	103 So. 2d 839	46
1959	Southern Bell Tel. & Tel. Co. v. Mississippi Public Service Commission	113 So. 2d 622	43
1961	Mississippi State Highway Commission v. Rogers	128 So. 2d 353	42
1953	Billups Petroleum Co. v. Hardin's Bakeries Corp.	63 So. 2d 543	42
1951	Walley v. HUNT	54 So. 2d 393	42
1964	Hall v. State	165 So. 2d 345	40
1951	Carr v. CRABTREE	55 So. 2d 408	39
1955	KELLEY, ADMR. v. Sportsmen's Speedway	80 So. 2d 785	38
1959	Culley v. Pearl River Industrial Commission· Dissent†	108 So. 2d 390	37
1954	EI DuPONT DE NEM. & CO. v. Ladner	73 So. 2d 249	37

Showing the 15 most-cited of 430 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 John W. Kyle on?: John W. Kyle was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Sources

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15 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).