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 1987 / Served to 1989

Joseph Stephen Zuccaro Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Joseph Stephen Zuccaro Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1923–2008
Tenure: 1987–1989 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Zuccaro authored 21 published opinions for the court (1987–1989), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: Lanier v. State (330 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. 13 of these were attributed to Zuccaro 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
1988	Lanier v. State	533 So. 2d 473	330
1989	Mease v. State· Concurrence†	539 So. 2d 1324	318
1988	Vickery v. State	535 So. 2d 1371	160
1988	Whittley v. City of Meridian†	530 So. 2d 1341	102
1988	Holleman v. Holleman	527 So. 2d 90	57
1989	Darby v. State	538 So. 2d 1168	39
1988	Moore v. State	534 So. 2d 557	31
1988	Hudspeth v. State Highway Com'n	534 So. 2d 210	17
1988	Goeldner v. Mississippi State Bar Ass'n	525 So. 2d 403	15
1988	Estate of Stutts v. Stutts†	529 So. 2d 177	12
1988	Huntley v. State†	524 So. 2d 572	12
1988	State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Mettetal	534 So. 2d 189	10
1988	State v. Bradford†	522 So. 2d 227	6
1987	Cooper v. Gidden†	515 So. 2d 900	4
1988	OSBORN ESTATE v. Gerling Global Life Ins. Co.	529 So. 2d 169	3

Showing the 15 most-cited of 22 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 Stephen Zuccaro Jr. on?: Joseph Stephen Zuccaro Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

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1 year 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).