David Ishee
David Ishee is a judge for District 2-Place 1 of the Mississippi Supreme Court. He assumed office on September 18, 2017. His current term ends on December 31, 2028.
Ishee ran for re-election for the District 2-Place 1 judge of the Mississippi Supreme Court. He won in the general election on November 6, 2018.
Gov. Phil Bryant (R) first appointed Ishee to the court in 2017 to replace Jess Dickinson.[1] 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.[2] Ishee received a confidence score of Mild Republican.[3] Click here to read more about this study.
Ishee previously served on the Mississippi Court of Appeals (District 5, Place 2).[4]
Biography
Ishee received his B.S. in history from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1985 and his J.D. from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1988. He also studied at the University of London.[4]
After graduating from law school, Ishee worked at Lang & Ishee, where he worked on civil, criminal, and domestic relations litigation. He was appointed a municipal court judge for Pascagoula in 1993. In 1999, he was appointed a municipal court judge for Gulfport. In 2002, he joined the law firm Franke, Rainey & Salloum, PLLC.[4]
In 2004, he was appointed to the Court of Appeals, where he served until his appointment to the Mississippi Supreme Court.[4]
Elections
2018
General election
General election for Mississippi Supreme Court District 2 Position 1
Incumbent David Ishee won election in the general election for Mississippi Supreme Court District 2 Position 1 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | David Ishee (Nonpartisan) | 100.0 | 251,772 |
| Total votes: 251,772 | |||
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2017
Gov. Phil Bryant (R) appointed Ishee to the Mississippi Supreme Court.[4]
2016
- See also: Mississippi judicial elections, 2016
Ishee won re-election to the Mississipi Court of Appeals in 2016. The race was uncontested.[5]
Analysis
Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship (2020)
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.[6]
The five resulting categories of Confidence Scores were:
- Strong Democrat
- Mild Democrat
- Indeterminate[7]
- 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.
David
Ishee
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:
Ishee 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.[8] 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.[9] 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.[8]
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.[8]
Vacancies
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.[10]
The map below highlights how vacancies are filled in state supreme courts across the country.
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ State of Mississippi Judiciary, "Justice David Ishee to take Supreme Court oath September 18," September 13, 2017
- ↑ We calculated confidence scores by collecting several data points such as party registration, donations, and previous political campaigns.
- ↑ The five possible confidence scores were: Strong Democrat, Mild Democrat, Indeterminate, Mild Republican, and Strong Republican.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 State of Mississippi Judiciary, "David M. Ishee," accessed July 26, 2021
- ↑ The New York Times, "Mississippi Appeals Court 5th District – Position 2 Results: David Ishee Wins," November 8, 2016
- ↑ The seven factors were party registration, donations made to partisan candidates, donations made to political parties, donations received from political parties or bodies with clear political affiliation, participation in political campaigns, the partisanship of the body responsible for appointing the justice, and state trifecta status when the justice joined the court.
- ↑ An Indeterminate score indicates that there is either not enough information about the justice’s partisan affiliations or that our research found conflicting partisan affiliations.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 National Center for State Courts, "Methods of Judicial Selection," accessed September 7, 2021
- ↑ State of Mississippi Judiciary, "Supreme Court," accessed September 7, 2021
- ↑ National Center for State Courts, "Methods of Judicial Selection," accessed September 7, 2021
Federal courts:
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: Northern District of Mississippi, Southern District of Mississippi • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: Northern District of Mississippi, Southern District of Mississippi
State courts:
Mississippi Supreme Court • Mississippi Court of Appeals • Mississippi circuit courts • Mississippi Chancery Court • Mississippi county courts • Mississippi justice courts • Mississippi youth courts • Mississippi Municipal Courts
State resources:
Courts in Mississippi • Mississippi judicial elections • Judicial selection in Mississippi
