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 1982 / Served to 2001

Lenore L. Prather

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Lenore L. Prather was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1931 · age 95
Tenure: 1982–2001 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

Mississippi University for Women

Judicial Record

In our data, Prather authored 318 published opinions for the court (1982–2000), plus 12 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Ferguson v. Ferguson (745 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. 142 of these were attributed to Prather 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
1994	Ferguson v. Ferguson	639 So. 2d 921	745
1983	Albright v. Albright	437 So. 2d 1003	678
1991	Holland v. State	587 So. 2d 848	388
1987	Nixon v. State	533 So. 2d 1078	322
1996	Hunter v. State	684 So. 2d 625	307
1984	Cannaday v. State	455 So. 2d 713	305
1985	Mhoon v. State	464 So. 2d 77	301
1994	Duplantis v. State	644 So. 2d 1235	296
1983	Edwards v. State	441 So. 2d 84	296
1986	Wiley v. State	484 So. 2d 339	287
1988	Woodward v. State	533 So. 2d 418	280
1989	Shell v. State	554 So. 2d 887	276
1997	Wilcher v. State†	697 So. 2d 1087	242
1992	Shell v. State	595 So. 2d 1323	215
1993	Wiley v. State	635 So. 2d 802	189

Showing the 15 most-cited of 334 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 Lenore L. Prather on?: Lenore L. Prather was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Sources

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19 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).