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 1889 / Served to 1900

Thomas H. Woods

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Thomas H. Woods was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi (7 judges, selected by nonpartisan election), who joined the court in 1889. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1836–1910
Tenure: 1889–1900 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1889	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

Williams College
University of Mississippi

Judicial Record

In our data, Woods authored 347 published opinions for the court (1889–1899). Most cited: Hewlett v. George (292 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. 347 of these were attributed to Woods 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
1891	Hewlett v. George†	68 Miss. 703	292
1898	State v. Holder†	76 Miss. 158	60
1896	Tucker v. Tucker†	74 Miss. 93	52
1897	Pullman Palace Car Co. v. Lawrence†	74 Miss. 782	42
1894	City of Vicksburg v. Herman†	72 Miss. 211	32
1896	Clayton v. Clark†	74 Miss. 499	31
1893	Yarbrough v. State†	70 Miss. 593	31
1895	Hill v. State†	72 Miss. 527	25
1894	Ferguson v. State†	71 Miss. 805	25
1893	Cartwright v. State†	71 Miss. 82	25
1895	Reddick v. State†	72 Miss. 1008	24
1893	Jones v. Millsaps†	71 Miss. 10	24
1889	City of Vicksburg v. McLain†	67 Miss. 4	24
1892	Sproule v. Fredericks†	69 Miss. 898	22
1897	State v. Buchanan†	75 Miss. 349	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 347 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 H. Woods on?: Thomas H. Woods was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

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11 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).