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 1972 / Served to 1984

Vernon H. Broom

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Vernon H. Broom was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1972. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1924 · age 102
Tenure: 1972–1984 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1972	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

University of Mississippi

Judicial Record

In our data, Broom authored 150 published opinions for the court (1972–1984), plus 4 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Smith v. State (301 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. 84 of these were attributed to Broom 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
1982	Smith v. State	419 So. 2d 563	301
1978	Jordan v. State	365 So. 2d 1198	283
1982	Edwards v. State	413 So. 2d 1007	269
1983	Tideway Oil Programs, Inc. v. Serio	431 So. 2d 454	151
1983	Smith v. State	434 So. 2d 212	87
1973	Yates v. Yates	284 So. 2d 46	55
1984	Miller v. McRae's, Inc.	444 So. 2d 368	52
1973	Loden v. Mississippi Public Service Commission	279 So. 2d 636	52
1983	Edwards v. Thigpen	433 So. 2d 906	48
1973	Holifield v. State	275 So. 2d 851	46
1973	Leonard v. State	271 So. 2d 445	40
1983	Penrod Drilling Co. v. Bounds· Dissent†	433 So. 2d 916	39
1974	Norman v. State	302 So. 2d 254	37
1980	In Re Jordan	390 So. 2d 584	36
1973	Rush v. State	278 So. 2d 456	36

Showing the 15 most-cited of 156 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 Vernon H. Broom on?: Vernon H. Broom was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Sources

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12 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).