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 1963

Richard Olney Arrington

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Richard Olney Arrington was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1950. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1897–1963
Tenure: 1950–1963 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Arrington authored 250 published opinions for the court (1950–1963). Most cited: Planters Wholesale Grocery v. Kincade (51 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. 183 of these were attributed to Arrington 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
1951	Planters Wholesale Grocery v. Kincade	50 So. 2d 578	51
1951	Coker v. Five-Two Taxi Service, Inc.	52 So. 2d 835	38
1951	Deemer Lumber Co. v. Hamilton	52 So. 2d 634	33
1961	Capital Electric Power Ass'n v. Mississippi Power & Light Co.	125 So. 2d 739	31
1954	Sandifer Oil Co., Inc. v. DEW	71 So. 2d 752	31
1953	Martin v. State	64 So. 2d 629	28
1953	National Surety Corp. v. Kemp	64 So. 2d 723	28
1953	Pathfinder Coach Division of Superior Coach Corp. v. Cottrell†	216 Miss. 358	28
1963	Slyter v. State	149 So. 2d 489	27
1959	Cobb v. State	108 So. 2d 719	24
1957	WALKER v. City of Biloxi	92 So. 2d 227	24
1955	Eagle Motor Lines, Inc. v. Mitchell	78 So. 2d 482	24
1955	Westbrook v. Ball	77 So. 2d 274	24
1952	Mills v. Jones	56 So. 2d 488	21
1956	Mills v. Mississippi Employment Security Commission	89 So. 2d 727	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 250 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 Richard Olney Arrington on?: Richard Olney Arrington was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

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13 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).