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 2000 / Served to 2011

William Myers

Judge, Court of Appeals of Mississippi

William Myers was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Mississippi, who joined the court in 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2000–2011 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Court of Appeals of Mississippi	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Myers authored 492 published opinions for the court (2000–2011), plus 11 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: White v. State (81 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. 339 of these were attributed to Myers 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	White v. State	59 So. 3d 633	81
2003	Byrne v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.	877 So. 2d 462	50
2001	Pittman v. Pittman	791 So. 2d 857	36
2001	Gavin v. State	785 So. 2d 1088	28
2008	Jamison v. Barnes†	8 So. 3d 238	23
2004	Henderson v. State	878 So. 2d 246	23
2011	Boyd v. State†	65 So. 3d 358	22
2011	Williams v. State†	64 So. 3d 1029	18
2010	Seghini v. Seghini	42 So. 3d 635	18
2005	Jerninghan v. State	910 So. 2d 748	18
2003	Saucier v. City of Poplarville	858 So. 2d 933	18
2003	Divers v. Divers	856 So. 2d 370	18
2001	Lynn v. Soterra Inc.	802 So. 2d 162	18
2001	Adams v. State	794 So. 2d 1049	18
2011	Mitchell v. State†	58 So. 3d 59	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 506 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 was William Myers on?: William Myers was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Mississippi.

Sources

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11 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).