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 2013 / Active

Josiah D. Coleman

Presiding Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Josiah D. Coleman is a Presiding Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi (7 judges, selected by nonpartisan election), serving since 2013. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2013 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2013	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

University of Mississippi

Judicial Record

In our data, Coleman authored 170 published opinions for the court (2013–2025), plus 48 dissents and 27 concurrences. Most cited: Corrothers v. State (99 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. 209 of these were attributed to Coleman 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
2014	Corrothers v. State· Dissent†	148 So. 3d 278	99
2013	Little v. Mississippi Department of Transportation†	129 So. 3d 132	90
2014	Keller v. State†	138 So. 3d 817	89
2015	Richard Chapman v. State of Mississippi· Dissent†	167 So. 3d 1170	87
2013	McNeese v. McNeese†	119 So. 3d 264	74
2014	Harrell v. State†	134 So. 3d 266	73
2014	Donald Keith Smith v. State of Mississippi· Dissent†	149 So. 3d 1027	71
2018	Abdur Rahim Ambrose v. State of Mississippi†	254 So. 3d 77	70
2017	Timothy Nelson Evans v. State of Mississippi· Concurrence†	226 So. 3d 1	69
2016	Randy Charles Wilson v. State of Mississippi†	194 So. 3d 855	57
2019	Gulf Coast Hospice LLC v. LHC Group Inc†	273 So. 3d 721	54
2015	Michael Taylor v. State of Mississippi†	162 So. 3d 780	53
2018	Samuel Wilcher, Jr. v. Lincoln County Board of Supervisors· Concurrence†	243 So. 3d 177	51
2018	Tony Swinney v. State of Mississippi†	241 So. 3d 599	50
2015	Dickerson v. State†	175 So. 3d 8	50

Showing the 15 most-cited of 245 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 is Josiah D. Coleman on?: Josiah D. Coleman is a Presiding Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Sources

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13 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).