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 2019 / Active

T. Kenneth Griffis

Associate Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

T. Kenneth Griffis is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, serving since 2019. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2019 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2019	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Griffis authored 5 published opinions for the court (2019), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Rex Distributing Company, Inc. v. Anheuser-Busch, LLC (41 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. 7 of these were attributed to Griffis 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
2019	Rex Distributing Company, Inc. v. Anheuser-Busch, LLC· Concurrence†	271 So. 3d 445	41
2019	Nissan North America, Inc. v. Ann C. Tillman· Dissent†	273 So. 3d 710	8
2019	Franklin Collection Service, Inc. v. BancorpSouth Bank†	275 So. 3d 1048	3
2019	Charles L. Kuebler v. Victor Mason, Hinds County Sheriff†	274 So. 3d 925	1
2019	Hinds Cnty. v. Skinner (In Re Appointment & Setting Salary for Cnty. Court Adm'r & Deputy Court Adm'r)†	275 So. 3d 87	1
2019	Larry Knight v. State of Mississippi†	271 So. 3d 477	1
2019	Edward Lamar Ware v. State of Mississippi†	275 So. 3d 1103	0

Showing the 7 most-cited of 7 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 is T. Kenneth Griffis on?: T. Kenneth Griffis is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

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7 years on the Supreme Court of Mississippi. Data as of 2026-07-02. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).