page_title: Cindy Hyde-Smith
section_title: Supreme Court
hierarchical_section_title: Cindy Hyde-Smith / Political positions / Supreme Court
caption_attribution_description: English: I thoroughly enjoyed meeting Judge Kavanaugh. @POTUS made a great decision in nominating him. I will be an advocate for his #SCOTUS confirmation.
context_page_description: Cindy Hyde-Smith is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Mississippi, in office since 2018. A member of the Republican Party, she was previously the Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce and a member of the Mississippi State Senate.
  Born in Brookhaven, Mississippi, Hyde-Smith is a graduate of Copiah-Lincoln Community College and the University of Southern Mississippi. In 1999, she was elected to the Mississippi State Senate as a Democrat. She represented the 39th district from 2000 to 2012. In 2010 Hyde-Smith switched parties and became a Republican, citing her conservative beliefs. Hyde-Smith was elected Mississippi Agriculture Commissioner in 2011, the first woman elected to that office.
  On March 21, 2018, Governor Phil Bryant announced his intention to appoint Hyde-Smith to the United States Senate seat being vacated due to the resignation of Thad Cochran. Hyde-Smith was sworn into office on April 9, 2018. She is the first woman to represent Mississippi in Congress.
  Hyde-Smith was a candidate in the 2018 U.S. Senate special election for the remainder of Cochran's term, which expires in 2021.
context_section_description: In March 2019 Hyde-Smith was one of 12 senators to cosponsor a resolution in favor of a constitutional amendment limiting the Supreme Court to nine justices. The resolution was introduced after multiple Democratic presidential candidates expressed openness to expanding the number of seats on the Supreme Court.
caption: Hyde-Smith and Brett Kavanaugh in July 2018
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