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 1976 / Served to 1992

Roy Noble Lee

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Roy Noble Lee was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1976. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1915 · age 111
Tenure: 1976–1992 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1976	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

Mississippi College
Samford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Lee authored 88 published opinions for the court (1976–1981), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Bullock v. State (361 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. 83 of these were attributed to Lee 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
1980	Bullock v. State	391 So. 2d 601	361
1978	Irving v. State	361 So. 2d 1360	331
1980	Turner v. State· Dissent†	383 So. 2d 489	61
1977	Pickle v. State	345 So. 2d 623	56
1979	Herring v. State†	374 So. 2d 784	33
1980	Monaghan v. Blue Bell†	393 So. 2d 466	27
1980	Thomas v. Purvis†	384 So. 2d 610	20
1979	Moody v. State†	371 So. 2d 408	20
1979	Lovorn v. Hathorn	365 So. 2d 947	16
1976	Poole v. Brunt	338 So. 2d 991	14
1979	Harris v. HARRISON CTY. BD. OF SUPERVISORS†	366 So. 2d 651	11
1981	Harbin v. State†	402 So. 2d 360	8
1977	National Old Line Ins. Co. v. Brownlee	349 So. 2d 513	7
1976	Dobbs v. Bowling†	339 So. 2d 985	7
1981	Liberty Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Mitchell†	398 So. 2d 208	6

Showing the 15 most-cited of 91 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 Roy Noble Lee on?: Roy Noble Lee was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Sources

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16 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).