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 1950 / Served to 1965

Percy Mercer Lee

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Percy Mercer Lee was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1950. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1892–1969
Tenure: 1950–1965 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1950	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

Mississippi College

Judicial Record

In our data, Lee authored 556 published opinions for the court (1950–1965), plus 24 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Brooks v. State (75 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. 403 of these were attributed to Lee 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
1950	Brooks v. State	46 So. 2d 94	75
1952	M. T. Reed Const. Co. v. Martin	61 So. 2d 300	55
1960	Dodd v. CITY OF JACKSON, MISS	118 So. 2d 319	54
1951	City of Meridian v. Davidson· Dissent†	53 So. 2d 48	51
1950	Lucedale Veneer Co. v. Rogers	48 So. 2d 148	51
1956	Lang v. State	87 So. 2d 265	47
1964	Employers Mutual Casualty Co. v. Nosser· Dissent†	164 So. 2d 426	45
1962	City of Jackson v. Bridges	139 So. 2d 660	44
1963	McGarrh v. State	148 So. 2d 494	42
1952	Superior Oil Co. v. FOOTE· Dissent†	59 So. 2d 85	39
1959	Aultman v. Kelly	109 So. 2d 344	36
1952	Griffin v. Maryland Cas. Co.	57 So. 2d 486	36
1955	Wilder v. St. Joseph Hospital	82 So. 2d 651	35
1953	Wheeler v. State	63 So. 2d 517	35
1957	Matthews v. Thompson	95 So. 2d 438	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 585 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 Percy Mercer Lee on?: Percy Mercer Lee was a 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).