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 1965 / Served to 1978

William H. Inzer

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

William H. Inzer was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1965. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1906–1978
Tenure: 1965–1978 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1965	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

University of Mississippi

Judicial Record

In our data, Inzer authored 347 published opinions for the court (1965–1978), plus 6 dissents. Most cited: Glass v. State (111 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. 182 of these were attributed to Inzer 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
1973	Glass v. State	278 So. 2d 384	111
1973	Rodgers v. Rodgers	274 So. 2d 671	55
1974	Early-Gary, Inc. v. Walters	294 So. 2d 181	53
1971	Commercial Union Insurance Company v. Byrne	248 So. 2d 777	50
1971	Rhone v. State	254 So. 2d 750	49
1974	Sisk v. State	290 So. 2d 608	47
1970	Seals v. St. Regis Paper Company	236 So. 2d 388	43
1970	Thigpen v. Kennedy	238 So. 2d 744	43
1969	Buckley v. State	223 So. 2d 524	43
1966	Howard v. Howard	191 So. 2d 528	40
1975	J.C. Penney Company v. Sumrall· Dissent†	318 So. 2d 829	39
1966	Mavar Shrimp & Oyster Co. v. United States F. & G. Co.	187 So. 2d 871	38
1973	Mississippi Insurance Guaranty Ass'n v. Gandy	289 So. 2d 677	34
1970	Astleford v. Milner Enterprises, Inc.	233 So. 2d 524	34
1969	McPherson v. McLendon	221 So. 2d 75	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 354 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 H. Inzer on?: William H. Inzer was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Sources

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13 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).