Jimmy Maxwell

Jimmy Maxwell

Nonpartisan

Mississippi Supreme Court District 3 Position 2

Tenure

2016 - Present

Term ends

2025

Years in position

8

Compensation

Base salary

$173,800

Elections and appointments

Last elected

November 5, 2024

Education

Bachelor's

University of Mississippi

Law

University of Mississippi

Contact

Official website

Campaign website

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Jimmy Maxwell is a judge for District 3-Place 2 of the Mississippi Supreme Court. He assumed office on January 4, 2016. His current term ends on January 5, 2025.

Maxwell ran for re-election for the District 3-Place 2 judge of the Mississippi Supreme Court. He won in the general election on November 5, 2024.

Maxwell first became a member of the Mississippi Supreme Court through a gubernatorial appointment. He was appointed to the court by Gov. Phil Bryant (R) on December 23, 2015, to succeed retiring Justice David Chandler and then elected to a full eight-year term in November 2016. To read more about judicial selection in Mississippi, click here.

In 2020, Ballotpedia published Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship, a study examining the partisan affiliation of all state supreme court justices in the country. As part of this study, we assigned each justice a Confidence Score describing our confidence in the degree of partisanship exhibited by the justices' past partisan behavior, before they joined the court. Maxwell received a confidence score of Mild Republican. Click here to read more about this study.

Maxwell previously served on the Mississippi Court of Appeals. He was appointed to that court in 2009 by Gov. Haley Barbour (R).

Biography

Maxwell received his bachelor's degree in business and his J.D. from the University of Mississippi. His professional experience includes practicing civil law and working as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi.

Elections

2024

See also: Mississippi Supreme Court elections, 2024

General election

General election for Mississippi Supreme Court District 3 Position 2

Incumbent Jimmy Maxwell won election in the general election for Mississippi Supreme Court District 3 Position 2 on November 5, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Jimmy Maxwell (Nonpartisan)	100.0	339,411

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Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Maxwell in this election.

2016

See also: Mississippi judicial elections, 2016

Maxwell ran to keep his seat in 2016.

Election results

November 8 general election

Incumbent James D. Maxwell ran unopposed in the general election for the Mississippi Supreme Court, District 3, Place 2.

Mississippi Supreme Court, District 3, Place 2, 2016
Candidate
James D. Maxwell Incumbent
Source: The New York Times

2014

See also: Mississippi judicial elections, 2014

Maxwell ran for re-election to the Court of Appeals.
General: He was unopposed in the general election on November 4, 2014.  

2010

See: Mississippi judicial elections, 2010

Maxwell was re-elected to the Mississippi Court of Appeals after running unopposed.

Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection

Jimmy Maxwell did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.

Analysis

Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship (2020)

See also: Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship and Ballotpedia Courts: Determiners and Dissenters

Last updated: June 15, 2020

In 2020, Ballotpedia published Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship, a study examining the partisan affiliation of all state supreme court justices in the country as of June 15, 2020.

The study presented Confidence Scores that represented our confidence in each justice's degree of partisan affiliation. This was not a measure of where a justice fell on an ideological spectrum, but rather a measure of how much confidence we had that a justice was or had been affiliated with a political party. The scores were based on seven factors, including but not limited to party registration.

The five resulting categories of Confidence Scores were:

• Strong Democrat
• Mild Democrat
• Indeterminate
• Mild Republican
• Strong Republican

This justice's Confidence Score, as well as the factors contributing to that score, is presented below. The information below was current as of June 2020.

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Jimmy
Maxwell

Mississippi

• Partisan Confidence Score:
  Mild Republican
• Judicial Selection Method:
  Elected
• Key Factors:
  • Appointed by a Republican governor
  • State was a Republican trifecta at time of appointment

Partisan Profile

Details:

Maxwell was appointed by Gov. Phil Bryant (R). At the time of his appointment, Mississippi was a Republican trifecta.

State supreme court judicial selection in Mississippi

See also: Judicial selection in Mississippi

The nine justices on the Mississippi Supreme Court are elected to eight-year terms in nonpartisan elections. All candidates must run in the general election (as Mississippi holds no primary for judicial candidates) and must face re-election if they wish to serve again. For more information about these elections, visit the Mississippi judicial elections page.

Unlike most states, supreme court justices in Mississippi are elected to represent specific districts. The nine justices are divided among three supreme court districts (not to be confused with the 22 divisions of the circuit courts) and are voted into office by the residents of their respective regions. Only the states of Illinois, Kentucky, and Louisiana use a similar system.

Qualifications

To serve on this court, a judge must be:

• a qualified elector for and from the district in which election is sought;
• a minimum of 30 years old;
• a practicing attorney; and
• a state citizen for at least five years.

Chief justice

The court's chief justice is selected by seniority. He or she serves until retirement when the justice with the next most judicial experience becomes chief.

Vacancies

See also: How vacancies are filled in state supreme courts

If a midterm vacancy occurs on the court, a temporary judge is named by the governor. Appointees serve out the remainder of their predecessor's unexpired term if four or fewer years of the term remain. If there are more than four years remaining, the appointee will run in the next general election, taking place nine months or more after the vacancy occurs. The winner of the election will serve the remainder of the term.

The map below highlights how vacancies are filled in state supreme courts across the country.

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