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 1999 / Served to 2007

Kay B. Cobb

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Kay B. Cobb was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1942 · age 84
Tenure: 1999–2007 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

Mississippi University for Women

Judicial Record

In our data, Cobb authored 40 published opinions for the court (1999–2007), plus 4 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Spicer v. State (184 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. 40 of these were attributed to Cobb 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
2006	Spicer v. State†	921 So. 2d 292	184
2004	Carr v. State	873 So. 2d 991	107
2000	S.N.C. v. J.R.D.†	755 So. 2d 1077	92
2006	Dies v. State†	926 So. 2d 910	87
2006	Hobgood v. State†	926 So. 2d 847	76
1999	Birkley v. State†	750 So. 2d 1245	44
2006	Robley v. Blue Cross/Blue Shield†	935 So. 2d 990	38
2004	State ex rel. Hood v. Madison County ex rel. Madison County Board of Supervisors†	873 So. 2d 85	34
2003	Adoption of D.N.T. v. R.D.H.· Concurrence†	843 So. 2d 690	33
2004	Doss v. State†	882 So. 2d 176	31
2006	J.P.M. v. T.D.M.· Concurrence†	932 So. 2d 760	25
2004	Smith v. State†	877 So. 2d 369	25
2004	Southerland v. Southerland	875 So. 2d 204	23
2002	Public Employees' Retirement System v. Shurden· Dissent†	822 So. 2d 258	20
2002	Mosley v. Atterberry†	819 So. 2d 1268	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 46 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 Kay B. Cobb on?: Kay B. Cobb was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Sources

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8 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).