Mike Randolph
2004 - Present
2028
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Mike Randolph is a judge for District 2-Position 3 of the Mississippi Supreme Court. He assumed office in 2004. His current term ends on December 31, 2028.
Randolph ran for re-election for the District 2-Position 3 judge of the Mississippi Supreme Court. He won in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Randolph was elected by his peers as chief justice in 2019.[1]
Randolph was first appointed to the court in April 2004 by Governor Haley Barbour (R). He was subsequently elected to the court in a nonpartisan election in November 2004.[2] 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.[3] Randolph received a confidence score of Mild Republican.[4] Click here to read more about this study.
Biography
Randolph served with the U.S. Army 1st Infantry Division during the Vietnam War. He was discharged in 1967.[2] Randolph received a B.S. in business administration in 1972 from Rollins College and a J.D. from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1974.[2] Prior to serving on the Mississippi Supreme Court, he worked as an attorney in private practice from 1974 to 2004.[2]
Elections
2020
See also: Mississippi Supreme Court elections, 2020
General election
General election for Mississippi Supreme Court District 2 Position 3
Incumbent Mike Randolph won election in the general election for Mississippi Supreme Court District 2 Position 3 on November 3, 2020.
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| ✔ |  | Mike Randolph (Nonpartisan) | 100.0 | 347,143 |
| Total votes: 347,143 | |||
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2012
- See also: Mississippi judicial elections, 2012
Randolph was re-elected on November 6, 2012. He defeated Talmadge Braddock in the general election, winning 77% of the vote.[5][6][7]
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Mike Randolph did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
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.[8]
The five resulting categories of Confidence Scores were:
- Strong Democrat
- Mild Democrat
- Indeterminate[9]
- 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.
Mike
Randolph
Mississippi
- Partisan Confidence Score:
Mild Republican - Judicial Selection Method:
Elected - Key Factors:
- Donated over $2,000 to Republican candidates
- Was a registered Republican before 2020
- Appointed by a Republican governor
Partisan Profile
Details:
Randolph donated $2,250 to Republican candidates and organizations. He was a registered Republican prior to 2020. Randolph was appointed by Gov. Haley Barbour (R). He was endorsed by individuals and organizations that regularly endorse Republicans, including the Mississippi Republican Party.
Other Scores:
In a 2012 study of campaign contributions, Randolph received a campaign finance score of 1.04, indicating a conservative ideological leaning.
Bonica and Woodruff campaign finance scores (2012)
In October 2012, political science professors Adam Bonica and Michael Woodruff of Stanford University attempted to determine the partisan ideology of state supreme court justices. They created a scoring system in which a score above 0 indicated a more conservative-leaning ideology, while scores below 0 were more liberal.
Randolph received a campaign finance score of 1.04, indicating a conservative ideological leaning. This was more conservative than the average score of 0.69 that justices received in Mississippi.
The study was based on data from campaign contributions by the judges themselves, the partisan leaning of those who contributed to the judges' campaigns, or, in the absence of elections, the ideology of the appointing body (governor or legislature). This study was not a definitive label of a justice, but an academic summary of various relevant factors.[10]
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.[11] 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.[12] 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.[11]
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.[11]
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.[13]
The map below highlights how vacancies are filled in state supreme courts across the country.
See also
External links
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Officeholder Mississippi Supreme Court District 2 Position 3 |
Footnotes
- ↑ Hub City Spokes, "H'burg's Randolph will be next chief justice of MS supreme court," November 9, 2018
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 State of Mississippi Judiciary, "Michael K. Randolph," accessed June 30, 2021
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ The Mississippi Press, "Newcomer Josiah Coleman wins seat on Mississippi Supreme Court," November 7, 2012
- ↑ Mississippi Secretary of State, "MS Secretary of State's Office 2012 Candidate Qualifying List," accessed June 30, 2021
- ↑ Mississippi Secretary of State, "Certified election results," accessed June 30, 2021
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Stanford University, "State Supreme Court Ideology and 'New Style' Judicial Campaigns," October 31, 2012
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 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
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