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Rod Hickman: [17] First African American male to serve as the County Attorney of Noxubee County, Mississippi (2019) John Wilchie: [18] First African American male to serve as a Justice Court Judge in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi; Clell Ward: [12] First African American to serve as the Assistant District Attorney of Washington County ...
In 1982 the constitution was amended, removing the attorney general from the board effective July 1, 1984. [5] From 1878 until 2020, all Mississippi attorneys general were Democrats. [6] [7] The incumbent attorney general, Republican Lynn Fitch, was sworn-in to office on January 9, 2020. She is the first woman to hold the position.
George Adams: MS: 1784–1844 1838 [Note 1] [Note 2] — — Jackson/Operation of law: resignation 2 Samuel J. Gholson: MS: 1808–1883 1839–1861 [Note 2] — — Van Buren: resignation 3 Robert Andrews Hill: MS: 1811–1900 1866–1891 [Note 2] — — A. Johnson: retirement 4 Henry Clay Niles: MS: 1850–1918 1891–1918 [Note 3] [Note 2 ...
The Lafayette County Courthouse is located in Oxford, Mississippi and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [1]The current structure was constructed in 1872 to replace an earlier building burned during the Civil War by Union troops directed by General Andrew Jackson Smith.
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, formerly known as Hunton & Williams LLP and commonly known as Hunton, is an American law firm.The firm adopted its current name on April 2, 2018, when it merged with Andrews Kurth Kenyon LLP.
A general election was held in Mississippi on November 4, 2003, to elect to four-year terms all members of the state legislature (122 representatives, 52 senators), the offices of governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, state treasurer, state auditor, secretary of state, commissioner of agriculture and commerce, and commissioner of insurance, plus all three members of the ...
Latrice Westbrooks: [30] First African American female to serve as the Assistant District Attorney for the Second Circuit Court District (1997) [Hancock, Harrison and Stone Counties, Mississippi] Michele Purvis Harris (1987): [ 34 ] First female (and African American female) to serve as the Chief City Prosecutor for the City of Jackson ...
Philip Benjamin Heymann (October 30, 1932 – November 30, 2021) was an American legal scholar and federal prosecutor who headed the Criminal Division of the Justice Department as Assistant Attorney General during the Carter administration and was briefly Deputy Attorney General in the Clinton administration before he resigned over management and policy differences as well as perceived ...