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 2011 / Active

Leslie D. King

Presiding Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Leslie D. King is a Presiding Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, serving since 2011. He previously served on the Court of Appeals of Mississippi. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2011 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	Court of Appeals of Mississippi	–	–
2011	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

University of Mississippi
Texas Southern University
University of Mississippi
Texas Southern University

Judicial Record

In our data, King authored 862 published opinions for the court (1998–2025), plus 94 dissents and 32 concurrences. Most cited: Corrothers v. State (99 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. 612 of these were attributed to King 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
2014	Corrothers v. State· Dissent†	148 So. 3d 278	99
2014	Smith v. State†	136 So. 3d 424	75
2002	Aguilar v. State	847 So. 2d 871	69
2011	DOUBLE QUICK, INC. v. Moore†	73 So. 3d 1162	60
2013	Daniels v. State†	107 So. 3d 961	57
2019	Gulf Coast Hospice LLC v. LHC Group Inc· Dissent†	273 So. 3d 721	54
2003	Davis v. State	866 So. 2d 1107	53
2002	Graves v. State	822 So. 2d 1089	53
2015	Cowart v. State†	178 So. 3d 651	52
2014	David Michael Ashmore v. Mississippi Authority on Educational Television· Dissent†	148 So. 3d 977	49
2012	Victory v. State†	83 So. 3d 370	49
2014	Eric James Foster v. State of Mississippi· Dissent†	148 So. 3d 1012	48
2016	Verenzo Cartrell Green v. State of Mississippi· Dissent†	183 So. 3d 28	45
2014	Curtis Giovanni Flowers v. State of Mississippi· Dissent†	158 So. 3d 1009	42
2011	Knight v. State†	72 So. 3d 1056	41

Showing the 15 most-cited of 989 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 is Leslie D. King on?: Leslie D. King is a Presiding Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Sources

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15 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).