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 1960 / Served to 1962

Taylor H. McElroy

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Taylor H. McElroy was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1960. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1891 · age 135
Tenure: 1960–1962 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1960	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McElroy authored 88 published opinions for the court (1960–1964), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Bond v. State (56 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. 47 of these were attributed to McElroy 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
1964	Bond v. State	162 So. 2d 510	56
1963	McMahon v. McMahon	157 So. 2d 494	48
1961	Stokes v. State	128 So. 2d 341	41
1963	Marr v. State	159 So. 2d 167	38
1963	Dozier v. State	157 So. 2d 798	36
1962	Elias v. New Laurel Radio Station, Inc.	146 So. 2d 558	33
1962	L. B. Priester & Son, Inc. v. Dependents of Bynum†	244 Miss. 185	31
1963	Mississippi Power Co. v. Harrison	152 So. 2d 892	30
1963	Parker v. the Lewis Grocery Co.	153 So. 2d 261	28
1963	JC Penney Co., Inc. v. Cox	148 So. 2d 679	27
1960	Russell v. Mississippi Central Railroad	125 So. 2d 283	27
1963	Raney v. Jennings	158 So. 2d 715	26
1963	Robinson v. State	157 So. 2d 49	22
1964	Goens v. Arinder	161 So. 2d 509	21
1961	Meaut v. Langlinais	126 So. 2d 866	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 90 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 Taylor H. McElroy on?: Taylor H. McElroy was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Sources

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2 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).