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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 ...
Magnolia was founded in 1856 by Ansel H. Prewett, a local civic leader and cotton planter. Knowing that the approaching New Orleans, Jackson, and Great Northern Railroad (now the Illinois Central Railroad) would need a station for water and fuel, Prewett sold a right-of-way to the railroad company – for one dollar, according to legend – and divided a section of his plantation into town ...
The Bar’s Consumer Assistance Program is designed to assist clients with every day consumer type problems with their attorneys. The Bar does not regulate the Bar exam; that function is fulfilled by the Mississippi Board of Bar Admissions. [3] The Bar enforces the rule that Mississippi lawyers must complete 12 credits each year. [4]
Inmates at a Mississippi prison were forced to mix raw cleaning chemicals without protective equipment, with one alleging she later contracted terminal cancer and was denied timely medical care, a ...
The National Bar Association was established in 1925 as the "Negro Bar Association" after Gertrude Rush, George H. Woodson, S. Joe Brown, James B. Morris, and Charles P. Howard Sr., were denied membership in the American Bar Association. The young Charles Hamilton Houston, future dean of Howard University Law School, also helped with the founding.
A proposed new access from Downtown Jackson to Jackson-Evers International Airport is the Airport Parkway project. This parkway will connect High Street in Downtown Jackson to Mississippi Highway 475 at the airport. The parkway will be of interstate standards and designated Interstate 755 with access to both Flowood and Pearl. Although approved ...
Mississippi College School of Law (MC Law or MC Law School) is an American Bar Association accredited law school. MC Law is one of two law schools in the state of Mississippi, and is the only law school in the capital city of Jackson, Mississippi. The school is a professional school of Mississippi College, founded in 1826. [5] [6]