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 2004 / Active

Michael K. Randolph

Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Michael K. Randolph is a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, serving since 2004. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1946 · age 80
Tenure: Since 2004 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2004	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

Rollins College

Judicial Record

In our data, Randolph authored 302 published opinions for the court (2004–2025), plus 31 dissents and 53 concurrences. Most cited: Goff v. State (189 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. 355 of these were attributed to Randolph 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	Goff v. State· Concurrence†	14 So. 3d 625	189
2009	Lowrey v. Lowrey†	25 So. 3d 274	145
2012	Business Communications, Inc. v. Banks†	90 So. 3d 1221	107
2014	Corrothers v. State· Concurrence†	148 So. 3d 278	99
2010	Moffett v. State†	49 So. 3d 1073	97
2015	Richard Chapman v. State of Mississippi· Dissent†	167 So. 3d 1170	87
2012	Rowland v. State†	98 So. 3d 1032	85
2009	Schmidt v. Catholic Diocese of Biloxi· Concurrence†	18 So. 3d 814	80
2009	Covenant Health & Rehabilitation of Picayune, LP v. Estate of Moulds Ex Rel. Braddock†	14 So. 3d 695	77
2013	Jones v. State†	122 So. 3d 698	75
2009	Price v. Clark· Concurrence†	21 So. 3d 509	75
2009	Corban v. United Services Automobile Ass'n†	20 So. 3d 601	73
2009	Kilhullen v. Kansas City Southern Railway†	8 So. 3d 168	73
2010	Means v. State· Dissent†	43 So. 3d 438	72
2013	O'Connor v. State†	120 So. 3d 390	71

Showing the 15 most-cited of 386 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 Michael K. Randolph on?: Michael K. Randolph is a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Sources

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22 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).