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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Mississippi / Joined 1941 / Served to 1953

Julian P. Alexander

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Julian P. Alexander was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1941. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1887 · age 139
Tenure: 1941–1953 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1941	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

University of Mississippi

Judicial Record

In our data, Alexander authored 351 published opinions for the court (1940–1952), plus 30 dissents and 17 concurrences. Most cited: Forman v. Mississippi Publishers Corp. (96 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. 69 of these were attributed to Alexander 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
1943	Forman v. Mississippi Publishers Corp.	14 So. 2d 344	96
1942	Mauney v. Gulf Refining Co.	8 So. 2d 249	53
1950	Lucedale Veneer Co. v. Rogers· Dissent†	48 So. 2d 148	51
1952	Brookhaven Steam Laundry v. Watts· Dissent†	55 So. 2d 381	44
1952	Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. v. Byrd	60 So. 2d 645	40
1941	Cutshall v. State	4 So. 2d 289	39
1949	Palmer v. Clarksdale Hospital· Dissent	40 So. 2d 582	37
1944	Hasson Grocery Co. v. Cook	17 So. 2d 791	37
1945	Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Creekmore	23 So. 2d 250	35
1941	Chance v. Mississippi State Textbook Rating & Purchasing Board	200 So. 706	33
1952	Potomac Ins. Co. v. Wilkinson	57 So. 2d 158	31
1949	Fleming v. Travelers Insurance	39 So. 2d 885	31
1944	Kennington-Saenger Theatres, Inc. v. State Ex Rel. Dist. Atty.· Dissent	18 So. 2d 483	31
1944	Bangren v. State· Concurrence	17 So. 2d 599	30
1941	New Orleans N.E.R. Co. v. Burge· Dissent	2 So. 2d 825	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 412 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 Julian P. Alexander on?: Julian P. Alexander was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

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12 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).