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 2008 / Former Justice

Randy G. Pierce

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Randy G. Pierce was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi (7 judges, selected by nonpartisan election), who joined the court in 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1964 · age 62
Tenure: 2008 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

University of Southern Mississippi

Judicial Record

In our data, Pierce authored 127 published opinions for the court (2009–2016), plus 31 dissents and 31 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. 188 of these were attributed to Pierce 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†	14 So. 3d 625	189
2009	Lowrey v. Lowrey· Concurrence†	25 So. 3d 274	145
2009	Burrough v. State†	9 So. 3d 368	128
2010	Parker v. State†	30 So. 3d 1222	93
2013	Grayer v. State· Concurrence†	120 So. 3d 964	91
2015	Correy James Dartez v. State of Mississippi†	177 So. 3d 420	80
2010	Mladineo v. Schmidt†	52 So. 3d 1154	68
2010	Gowdy v. State· Concurrence†	56 So. 3d 540	59
2011	Johnson v. State†	68 So. 3d 1239	58
2014	Franklin v. State†	136 So. 3d 1021	57
2009	Duckworth v. Warren· Dissent†	10 So. 3d 433	55
2009	Sanders v. State†	9 So. 3d 1132	55
2009	Hill v. Carroll County†	17 So. 3d 1081	52
2010	Worthy v. McNair†	37 So. 3d 609	49
2010	Holder v. Orange Grove Medical Specialties, P.A.· Concurrence†	54 So. 3d 192	48

Showing the 15 most-cited of 189 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 Randy G. Pierce on?: Randy G. Pierce was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

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18 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).