How do judges of the Court of Appeals of Mississippi reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Court of Appeals of Mississippi / Joined 2003 / Active

Kenny Griffis

Judge, Court of Appeals of Mississippi

Kenny Griffis is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Mississippi, serving since 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2003 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Court of Appeals of Mississippi	–	–

Education

Mississippi State University
University of Mississippi

Judicial Record

In our data, Griffis authored 752 published opinions for the court (2003–2019), plus 55 dissents and 23 concurrences. Most cited: Rhodes v. Rhodes (48 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. 778 of these were attributed to Griffis 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
2011	Rhodes v. Rhodes· Concurrence†	52 So. 3d 430	48
2004	Hammers v. Hammers	890 So. 2d 944	44
2005	Horn v. Horn	909 So. 2d 1151	40
2004	Stovall v. State	873 So. 2d 1056	38
2015	Raymond Curtis Branch v. Lauren Hoover Branch†	174 So. 3d 932	31
2010	Clark v. Clark· Concurrence†	43 So. 3d 496	28
2015	Donald Breeden v. Willie Faye Breeden Buchanan†	164 So. 3d 1057	26
2013	Sylvester v. State†	113 So. 3d 618	26
2004	Moran v. Sims	873 So. 2d 1067	26
2004	Lacy v. Morrison	906 So. 2d 126	24
2017	Curtis Aaron White v. State of Mississippi· Dissent†	228 So. 3d 893	22
2010	Cherry v. State†	24 So. 3d 1048	22
2003	Ward v. State	879 So. 2d 452	22
2013	Chapman v. State†	135 So. 3d 184	21
2011	Madden v. State†	75 So. 3d 1130	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 830 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 Court of Appeals of Mississippi reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court is Kenny Griffis on?: Kenny Griffis is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Mississippi.

Sources

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23 years on the Court of Appeals of Mississippi. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).