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 2017 / Active

Latrice A Westbrooks

Judge, Court of Appeals of Mississippi

Latrice A Westbrooks is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Mississippi, serving since 2017. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2017 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2017	Court of Appeals of Mississippi	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Westbrooks authored 178 published opinions for the court (2017–2025), plus 8 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Dwight Nelson v. State of Mississippi (11 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. 75 of these were attributed to Westbrooks 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
2017	Dwight Nelson v. State of Mississippi†	222 So. 3d 318	11
2018	Immanuel Manning v. State of Mississippi†	269 So. 3d 216	9
2017	Yoginder Dandass v. State of Mississippi†	233 So. 3d 856	9
2017	Bobby Lee Allen v. State of Mississippi· Dissent†	235 So. 3d 168	6
2018	Marsha P. Nelson v. James A. Nelson†	271 So. 3d 613	5
2017	Raymond Scott Alexander v. State of Mississippi†	228 So. 3d 338	5
2017	Marque D. West v. State of Mississippi†	226 So. 3d 1238	5
2017	Karanja L. Cobbert v. State of Mississippi· Dissent†	223 So. 3d 822	5
2018	Clifford Pitts v. State of Mississippi†	249 So. 3d 472	4
2018	C.S.H. v. Lowndes County Department of Human Services· Dissent†	246 So. 3d 908	4
2018	Derrick Stokes v. State of Mississippi†	238 So. 3d 631	4
2018	Curtis C. Evans v. State of Mississippi†	237 So. 3d 1271	4
2017	Elnora Holmes v. Teresa Grisby†	234 So. 3d 425	4
2018	Ray James v. State of Mississippi†	266 So. 3d 1029	3
2018	Jane Doe v. Holmes County School District†	246 So. 3d 920	3

Showing the 15 most-cited of 190 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 Latrice A Westbrooks on?: Latrice A Westbrooks is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Mississippi.

Sources

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9 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).