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 1964 / Served to 1973

Thomas Pickens Brady

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Thomas Pickens Brady was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1964. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1903–1973
Tenure: 1964–1973 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1964	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

Yale University

Judicial Record

In our data, Brady authored 305 published opinions for the court (1963–1972), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: McLelland v. State (52 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. 178 of these were attributed to Brady 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
1967	McLelland v. State	204 So. 2d 158	52
1963	Hall v. State Ex Rel. Waller	157 So. 2d 781	52
1968	Bush v. City of Laurel	215 So. 2d 256	50
1964	Employers Mutual Casualty Co. v. Nosser	164 So. 2d 426	45
1969	Murphree v. State	228 So. 2d 599	42
1970	Home Insurance Co. of NY v. Atlas Tank Mfg. Co.	230 So. 2d 549	41
1969	Travelers Indemnity Company v. Rawson	222 So. 2d 131	41
1971	Shelby v. State	246 So. 2d 543	40
1970	Dennis v. Travelers Insurance Co.	234 So. 2d 624	38
1972	Barnett v. Getty Oil Company	266 So. 2d 581	37
1964	Koch v. H. & S. DEVELOPMENT CO.	163 So. 2d 710	33
1965	Bolton v. City of Greenville	178 So. 2d 667	32
1972	Grace v. Lititz Mutual Insurance Company	257 So. 2d 217	31
1967	Leverett v. State	197 So. 2d 889	31
1965	First Jackson Securities Corp. v. B. F. Goodrich Co.	176 So. 2d 272	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 309 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 Thomas Pickens Brady on?: Thomas Pickens Brady 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).