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 1970 / Served to 1983

Robert Perkins Sugg

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Robert Perkins Sugg was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1970. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1916–2010
Tenure: 1970–1983 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1970	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

Mississippi State University

Judicial Record

In our data, Sugg authored 233 published opinions for the court (1971–1983), plus 3 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: King v. State (265 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. 115 of these were attributed to Sugg 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
1982	King v. State	421 So. 2d 1009	265
1977	Gray v. State	351 So. 2d 1342	174
1982	Shearer v. State	423 So. 2d 824	117
1973	Stringer v. State	279 So. 2d 156	89
1982	Culberson v. State	412 So. 2d 1184	78
1982	Jackson v. State	423 So. 2d 129	74
1982	McQueen v. State	423 So. 2d 800	74
1974	Pittman v. State	297 So. 2d 888	70
1980	Turner v. State†	383 So. 2d 489	61
1982	Copeland v. State	423 So. 2d 1333	56
1973	Braswell v. Economy Supply Company	281 So. 2d 669	53
1981	Gulf Guaranty Life Ins. Co. v. Kelley	389 So. 2d 920	52
1973	Clanton v. State	279 So. 2d 599	52
1983	Young v. State	425 So. 2d 1022	47
1977	Upshaw v. State†	350 So. 2d 1358	46

Showing the 15 most-cited of 239 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 Perkins Sugg on?: Robert Perkins Sugg 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).