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 1911 / Served to 1912

William Campbell McLean

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

William Campbell McLean was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1911. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1854–1944
Tenure: 1911–1912

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1911	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

Transylvania University

Judicial Record

In our data, McLean authored 23 published opinions for the court (1911–1912), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Richards v. City Lumber Co. (26 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. 26 of these were attributed to McLean 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
1911	Richards v. City Lumber Co.†	101 Miss. 678	26
1911	Gurley v. State†	101 Miss. 190	23
1911	Germania Life Insurance v. Bouldin†	100 Miss. 660	23
1911	St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad v. Ault†	101 Miss. 341	13
1911	Hawkins v. Shields†	100 Miss. 739	11
1911	Collins v. State†	100 Miss. 435	10
1911	Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad v. Lakeview Traction Co.†	100 Miss. 281	10
1911	Clark v. State†	100 Miss. 751	9
1911	Dulaney v. Jones & Rogers†	100 Miss. 835	8
1911	Byrd v. City of Hazlehurst†	101 Miss. 57	8
1911	Neely v. State· Dissent†	100 Miss. 211	7
1911	Billingsley v. Illinois Central R. R.†	100 Miss. 612	7
1911	Conn v. Boutwell†	101 Miss. 353	7
1911	Houston v. Keith†	100 Miss. 83	6
1912	Dodge v. Cutrer†	101 Miss. 844	5

Showing the 15 most-cited of 26 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 Campbell McLean on?: William Campbell McLean was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1911. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).