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 2006 / Served to 2011

Larry E. Roberts

Judge, Court of Appeals of Mississippi

Larry E. Roberts was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Mississippi (14 judges, selected by nonpartisan election), who joined the court in 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1949 · age 77
Tenure: 2006–2011 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	Court of Appeals of Mississippi	–	–

Education

University of Mississippi

Judicial Record

In our data, Roberts authored 238 published opinions for the court (2006–2011), plus 16 dissents and 20 concurrences. Most cited: Dobbs v. State (23 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. 275 of these were attributed to Roberts 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
2009	Dobbs v. State†	18 So. 3d 295	23
2010	Williams v. State†	37 So. 3d 717	22
2007	Adams v. State· Concurrence†	954 So. 2d 1051	22
2010	McBride v. State· Dissent†	61 So. 3d 174	18
2009	Pearson v. Pearson· Concurrence†	11 So. 3d 178	17
2011	Shinn v. State†	74 So. 3d 901	16
2011	Jenkins v. State†	75 So. 3d 49	16
2010	Shelton v. State†	45 So. 3d 1203	16
2010	WARDLEY v. State†	37 So. 3d 1222	15
2009	Goellner v. Goellner†	11 So. 3d 1251	15
2010	AMFED COMPANIES, LLC v. Jordan†	34 So. 3d 1177	14
2009	Aucoin v. State†	17 So. 3d 142	14
2008	Thompson v. State†	990 So. 2d 265	14
2009	Mississippi Department Employment Security v. Clark†	13 So. 3d 866	13
2009	Tucker v. Williams†	7 So. 3d 961	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 275 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 was Larry E. Roberts on?: Larry E. Roberts was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Mississippi.

Sources

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5 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).