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 1962 / Served to 1971

Robert Lee Jones

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Robert Lee Jones was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1962. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1898 · age 128
Tenure: 1962–1971 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1962	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Jones authored 293 published opinions for the court (1961–1972), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Biloxi Electric Co. v. Thorn (55 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. 205 of these were attributed to Jones 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
1972	Biloxi Electric Co. v. Thorn	264 So. 2d 404	55
1963	Sojourner v. Sojourner	153 So. 2d 803	52
1970	Allen v. Ritter	235 So. 2d 253	45
1972	Johnson v. State	260 So. 2d 436	41
1966	State v. Hall	187 So. 2d 861	38
1966	Thompson v. Erving's Hatcheries, Inc.	186 So. 2d 756	35
1967	McCollum v. State	197 So. 2d 252	34
1964	Conn v. State	170 So. 2d 20	32
1961	Mattox v. State	128 So. 2d 368	30
1967	Reaves v. Foster	200 So. 2d 453	28
1972	Stewart v. State	263 So. 2d 754	27
1968	Nash v. State	207 So. 2d 104	27
1968	Martinson v. City of Jackson	215 So. 2d 414	26
1970	State v. Labella	232 So. 2d 354	23
1966	Hubbard v. McKey	193 So. 2d 129	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 296 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 Lee Jones on?: Robert Lee Jones was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Sources

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9 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).