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 1896 / Served to 1897

Thomas Ringland Stockdale

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Thomas Ringland Stockdale was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi (7 judges, selected by nonpartisan election), who joined the court in 1896. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1828–1899
Tenure: 1896–1897 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1896	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

University of Mississippi

Judicial Record

In our data, Stockdale authored 28 published opinions for the court (1896–1897). Most cited: Walton v. Lowrey (16 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. 28 of these were attributed to Stockdale 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
1896	Walton v. Lowrey†	74 Miss. 484	16
1897	Ford v. State†	75 Miss. 101	14
1897	Jeffries v. State†	74 Miss. 675	11
1897	Bond v. Griffin†	74 Miss. 599	9
1897	Wiley v. State†	74 Miss. 727	7
1897	Niblett v. State†	75 Miss. 105	6
1897	Gregory v. Brogan†	74 Miss. 694	5
1897	Carey v. Fulmer†	74 Miss. 729	5
1896	Agnew v. Jones†	74 Miss. 347	4
1896	Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad v. Whittington†	74 Miss. 410	4
1897	Holley v. State†	74 Miss. 878	3
1896	Roberds v. Mobile & Ohio Railroad†	74 Miss. 334	3
1896	Barwick v. I. Moyse & Sons†	74 Miss. 415	3
1896	Furr v. Speed†	74 Miss. 423	3
1896	Zachery v. Mobile & Ohio Railroad†	74 Miss. 520	3

Showing the 15 most-cited of 28 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 Ringland Stockdale on?: Thomas Ringland Stockdale was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

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1 year 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).