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 2000 / Served to 2008

Oliver E. Diaz Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Oliver E. Diaz Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1959 · age 67
Tenure: 2000–2008 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

The University of Alabama

Judicial Record

In our data, Diaz authored 27 published opinions for the court (2000–2008), plus 14 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: King v. State (66 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. 42 of these were attributed to Diaz 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
2007	King v. State· Dissent†	960 So. 2d 413	66
2003	Jones v. State†	841 So. 2d 115	62
2001	McCaffrey v. Puckett†	784 So. 2d 197	45
2008	Pruitt v. State· Dissent†	986 So. 2d 940	44
2001	Moulds v. Bradley· Concurrence†	791 So. 2d 220	44
2000	Farmer v. State†	770 So. 2d 953	37
2007	Sutherland v. Estate of Ritter· Dissent†	959 So. 2d 1004	36
2008	Sumrell v. State· Dissent†	972 So. 2d 572	33
2007	Jones v. State· Dissent†	962 So. 2d 1263	33
2008	Jones v. Jones†	995 So. 2d 706	29
2003	Allred v. Yarborough†	843 So. 2d 727	26
2001	In the Interest of D.O.†	798 So. 2d 417	22
2001	Purdon v. Locke†	807 So. 2d 373	19
2007	Fleming v. Floyd· Dissent†	969 So. 2d 868	15
2002	F.D.P. v. J.S.B.†	822 So. 2d 949	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 46 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 Oliver E. Diaz Jr. on?: Oliver E. Diaz Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Sources

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8 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).