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 1985 / Served to 1990

Reuben V. Anderson

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Reuben V. Anderson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1942 · age 84
Tenure: 1985–1990 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

Tougaloo College

Judicial Record

In our data, Anderson authored 1,023 published opinions for the court (1922–1990), plus 83 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: MacKbee v. State (336 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. 33 of these were attributed to Anderson 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
1990	MacKbee v. State	575 So. 2d 16	336
1985	Pinkton v. State	481 So. 2d 306	276
1988	Wheeler v. State	536 So. 2d 1341	206
1989	McNeal v. State· Dissent†	551 So. 2d 151	171
1987	Davis v. State	512 So. 2d 1291	151
1938	Albritton v. City of Winona· Dissent	178 So. 799	96
1989	Hentz v. State†	542 So. 2d 914	94
1988	Life & Cas. Ins. Co. of Tenn. v. Bristow	529 So. 2d 620	86
1989	In Re Quick	553 So. 2d 522	82
1942	Sample v. Romine· Dissent	8 So. 2d 257	77
1986	Frost v. State	483 So. 2d 1345	73
1988	Wyeth Laboratories, Inc. v. Fortenberry	530 So. 2d 688	71
1989	Conerly v. State	544 So. 2d 1370	70
1932	Boutwell v. State	144 So. 479	68
1986	McCray v. State	486 So. 2d 1247	67

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,148 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 Reuben V. Anderson on?: Reuben V. Anderson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Sources

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5 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).