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 1952 / Served to 1971

William Nathaniel Ethridge Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

William Nathaniel Ethridge Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1952. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1912–1971
Tenure: 1952–1971 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1952	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

University of Mississippi

Judicial Record

In our data, Ethridge authored 1,852 published opinions for the court (1917–1971), plus 125 dissents and 29 concurrences. Most cited: Curry v. State (178 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. 407 of these were attributed to Ethridge 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
1971	Curry v. State	249 So. 2d 414	178
1968	Mitchell v. Craft	211 So. 2d 509	177
1966	State Stove Manufacturing Company v. Hodges	189 So. 2d 113	165
1930	Nelms & Blum Co. v. Fink	131 So. 817	97
1959	Croft v. Alder	115 So. 2d 683	95
1964	Mladinich v. Kohn	164 So. 2d 785	93
1970	Strode v. State	231 So. 2d 779	70
1954	Four-County Electric Power Ass'n v. Clardy	73 So. 2d 144	68
1966	Mladinich v. Kohn	186 So. 2d 481	67
1933	Floyd v. State	148 So. 226	67
1959	Central Electric Power Ass'n v. Hicks	110 So. 2d 351	66
1951	Love v. State	52 So. 2d 470	64
1926	Fisher v. State	110 So. 361	60
1961	Illinois Central Railroad v. Williams	135 So. 2d 831	52
1938	Sumter Lbr. Co. Inc. v. Skipper· Dissent	184 So. 296	51

Showing the 15 most-cited of 2,048 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 William Nathaniel Ethridge Jr. on?: William Nathaniel Ethridge Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Sources

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19 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).