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 1995 / Served to 2001

Michael P. Mills

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Michael P. Mills was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1956 · age 70
Tenure: 1995–2001 · 6 yrs
Education: University of Mississippi 1978

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

University of Mississippi

B.A.

1978

Judicial Record

In our data, Mills authored 32 published opinions for the court (1996–2001), plus 1 dissent and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Wells v. State (274 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. 36 of these were attributed to Mills 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
1997	Wells v. State†	698 So. 2d 497	274
2001	Goodin v. State†	787 So. 2d 639	178
1999	Swington v. State†	742 So. 2d 1106	85
1997	Forrest County General Hosp. v. Conway†	700 So. 2d 324	34
2001	Alexander v. Brown†	793 So. 2d 601	15
2000	Memphis Hardwood Flooring Co. v. Daniel†	771 So. 2d 924	13
2000	M.L.B. v. S.L.J.· Dissent†	806 So. 2d 1023	12
1998	Smith v. Averill†	722 So. 2d 606	11
1996	Johnson v. Harris†	705 So. 2d 819	11
2000	McCollum v. State†	757 So. 2d 982	8
1998	Coast Materials Co. v. Harrison County Development Commission†	730 So. 2d 1128	8
1998	Mississippi Department of Human Services v. Baum†	730 So. 2d 58	8
1997	Salyer v. Mason Technologies, Inc.†	690 So. 2d 1183	8
1999	Lee v. State†	756 So. 2d 744	7
2000	Scruggs, Millette, Bozeman & Dent, P.A. v. Merkel & Cocke, P.A.†	763 So. 2d 869	6

Showing the 15 most-cited of 36 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 Michael P. Mills on?: Michael P. Mills was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Sources

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6 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).