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 1986 / Served to 1988

Joseph Ruble Griffin

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Joseph Ruble Griffin was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1986. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1923 · age 103
Tenure: 1986–1988 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1986	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

University of Mississippi
University of Mississippi

Judicial Record

In our data, Griffin authored 50 published opinions for the court (1986–1988), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: McFee v. State (451 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. 32 of these were attributed to Griffin 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
1987	McFee v. State†	511 So. 2d 130	451
1988	White v. State	532 So. 2d 1207	272
1988	Cabello v. State	524 So. 2d 313	175
1987	Detroit Marine Engineering v. McRee	510 So. 2d 462	101
1987	Johnson v. State	512 So. 2d 1246	64
1987	Monroe v. State	515 So. 2d 860	60
1987	Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi, Inc. v. Maas†	516 So. 2d 495	53
1987	Waldrop v. State†	506 So. 2d 273	50
1986	Latham v. Hayes	495 So. 2d 453	35
1987	Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning v. Van Slyke	510 So. 2d 490	28
1987	Harper v. State	510 So. 2d 530	27
1987	Champion Cable Const. Co., Inc. v. Monts	511 So. 2d 924	25
1987	Terrell v. Rankin	511 So. 2d 126	24
1986	White v. Malone Properties, Inc.	494 So. 2d 576	24
1988	Hood v. State	523 So. 2d 302	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 52 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 Joseph Ruble Griffin on?: Joseph Ruble Griffin was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Sources

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2 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).