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 1978 / Served to 1986

Kermit R. Cofer

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Kermit R. Cofer was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1978. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1908–1989
Tenure: 1978–1986 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1978	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Cofer authored 37 published opinions for the court (1978–1980), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Reddix v. State (283 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. 37 of these were attributed to Cofer 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
1980	Reddix v. State	381 So. 2d 999	283
1979	Partyka v. Yazoo Development Corp.	376 So. 2d 646	24
1978	Shippers Express v. Chapman†	364 So. 2d 1097	24
1979	Brickell v. First National Bank†	373 So. 2d 1013	8
1980	Mississippi Municipal Ass'n v. State†	390 So. 2d 986	5
1978	Nowlin v. City of Pearl†	365 So. 2d 952	5
1978	Marshall Durbin, Inc. v. Tew†	362 So. 2d 601	5
1979	Mississippi Public Service Commission v. Mississippi Power Co.†	366 So. 2d 656	4
1979	Glover v. Glover†	367 So. 2d 167	4
1980	Pittman v. Currie†	391 So. 2d 654	3
1980	Carley v. State†	382 So. 2d 1090	3
1980	Harris v. Mississippi State Bar†	393 So. 2d 1307	2
1980	Parcell v. State†	389 So. 2d 1386	2
1980	Cowan v. Gulf City Fisheries, Inc.†	379 So. 2d 524	2
1979	Mississippi Public Service Commission v. Hughes Telephone Co.†	376 So. 2d 1074	2

Showing the 15 most-cited of 39 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 Kermit R. Cofer on?: Kermit R. Cofer was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

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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).