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The Mississippi Bar traces its lineage to a voluntary membership organization formed in 1821; however, this association lapsed after four years. It was revived in 1886, but lapsed six years later. [2] In 1905 it was revived again; its first President was G.D. Shands.
She was the first African American female judge in Scott County, Mississippi (1976). Edna Loeb (1936): [40] First female lawyer in Lowndes County, Mississippi; Patricia Wise: [30] First female (and African American female) to serve as President of the Magnolia Bar Association [Pike County, Mississippi]
Louis Westerfield: [15] First African American male to serve as the Dean of University of Mississippi School of Law (1994) [Lafayette County, Mississippi] Rickey Thompson: [16] First African American male judge in Lee County, Mississippi; Rod Hickman: [17] First African American male to serve as the County Attorney of Noxubee County ...
First female president of voluntary state bar: Carole Bellows in 1977 [106] [107] First female president of mandatory/integrated state bar: Donna Willard-Jones from 1979-1980 [108] [109] First openly lesbian to serve as president of a statewide bar association: Joan Ellenbogen in 1980 [110] First Latino American female president: Mary Torres in ...
Adams became a merchant and served as the Mayor of Bellefontaine, Mississippi. [1] In 1896, Adams enrolled in the Cumberland School of Law, and graduated the following year. [1] He was admitted to the bar in 1896. [3] In 1898, Adams attended the University of Mississippi. [1] By 1909 he was a member of the Mississippi State Bar Association. [4]
Greenlee was inducted as a fellow of the Mississippi Bar Foundation in 2010. [3] In January 2016, Governor Phil Bryant appointed Greenlee to the Mississippi Court of Appeals, succeeding James D. Maxwell II, who had been elevated to the Supreme Court of Mississippi. Greenlee was elected without opposition to a full eight-year term in November ...
She is a member of the Mississippi State Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, and is a Life Member of the NAACP. [38] Since 1986, she has been married to state representative Edward Blackmon Jr. [8] One of their sons, Bradford (born 1988) has been elected to the 2024 Mississippi Legislature to take his mother's seat. [41] [43] [42]
Robert Burt DeLaughter Sr. (born February 28, 1954, in Vicksburg, Mississippi) is a former state prosecutor and then Hinds County Circuit Judge. He prosecuted and secured the conviction in 1994 of Byron De La Beckwith, charged with the murder of the civil rights leader Medgar Evers on June 12, 1963. Two earlier trials in Mississippi in 1964 had ...