How do judges of the Court of Appeals of Mississippi reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Court of Appeals of Mississippi / Joined 2007 / Active

Virginia C. Carlton

Judge, Court of Appeals of Mississippi

Virginia C. Carlton is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Mississippi (14 judges, selected by nonpartisan election), serving since 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2007 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	Court of Appeals of Mississippi	–	–

Education

University of Mississippi

Judicial Record

In our data, Carlton authored 652 published opinions for the court (2007–2025), plus 148 dissents and 65 concurrences. Most cited: Evans v. Evans (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. 725 of these were attributed to Carlton 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
2011	Evans v. Evans· Concurrence†	75 So. 3d 1083	52
2013	Jackson v. Jackson†	114 So. 3d 768	35
2011	Johnson v. State· Concurrence†	94 So. 3d 1209	33
2011	Jenkins v. Jenkins†	67 So. 3d 5	33
2016	Gregory A. Thinnes v. State of Mississippi†	196 So. 3d 204	32
2014	Laws v. Louisville Ladder, Inc.†	146 So. 3d 380	30
2017	Gregory Tyler Moore v. State of Mississippi· Dissent†	248 So. 3d 845	29
2012	Delta Regional Medical Center v. Taylor†	112 So. 3d 11	27
2013	Sylvester v. State· Dissent†	113 So. 3d 618	26
2011	Blunt v. State†	55 So. 3d 207	25
2018	Elias Gunn v. State of Mississippi†	248 So. 3d 937	24
2017	Raheem Berry v. State of Mississippi†	230 So. 3d 360	23
2009	Knight v. Mississippi Transportation Commission†	10 So. 3d 962	23
2007	Doe v. Pontotoc County School District· Concurrence†	957 So. 2d 410	23
2014	Jackson v. State†	178 So. 3d 807	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 865 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 Court of Appeals of Mississippi reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court is Virginia C. Carlton on?: Virginia C. Carlton is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Mississippi.

Sources

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19 years on the Court of Appeals of Mississippi. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).