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 1954 / Served to 1977

Robert G. Gillespie

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Robert G. Gillespie was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1954. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1903–1983
Tenure: 1954–1977 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1954	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Gillespie authored 694 published opinions for the court (1954–1977), plus 31 dissents and 14 concurrences. Most cited: Agee v. State (182 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. 463 of these were attributed to Gillespie 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
1966	Agee v. State	185 So. 2d 671	182
1955	Brabham v. Brabham	84 So. 2d 147	119
1971	Harthcock v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company	248 So. 2d 456	109
1954	RAINEY v. Horn	72 So. 2d 434	88
1969	General Tire & Rubber Company v. Darnell	221 So. 2d 104	71
1959	Central Electric Power Ass'n v. Hicks· Dissent†	110 So. 2d 351	66
1955	Duvall v. Duvall	80 So. 2d 752	52
1969	King v. State Ex Rel. Murdock Acceptance Corp.	222 So. 2d 393	49
1956	Lyle Cashion Company v. McKendrick	87 So. 2d 289	48
1974	Talbot v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins. Co.	291 So. 2d 699	44
1962	Russell v. Douglas	138 So. 2d 730	44
1955	STEEN v. Andrews	78 So. 2d 881	44
1962	Fuqua v. State	145 So. 2d 152	43
1957	Edmonds v. Delta Democrat Publishing Co.	93 So. 2d 171	43
1973	Nix v. State	276 So. 2d 652	42

Showing the 15 most-cited of 742 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 Robert G. Gillespie on?: Robert G. Gillespie was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Sources

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23 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).