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First African American (female) (Magistrate Judge; U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi): Linda Anderson in 2006 [19] First female (U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi): Sharion Aycock (1980) in 2007 [20]
Supreme judges of the State of Mississippi (1818–1832) Justice: Began service: Ended service: Notes John P. Hampton: 1818: 1829: Chief Justice, 1818–1829
In response, Mississippi added the first three black state troopers to their ranks. Walter Crosby, Lewis Younger and R. O. Williams became the first African-Americans to wear what was then the Mississippi Highway Safety patrol uniform. Slaughter-Harvey noted that the Mississippi Highway Patrol was the strong arm of the law for the Ku Klux Klan.
Kay Beevers Cobb (February 28, 1942 – May 26, 2023) was an American politician and judge who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi. She also served in the Mississippi Senate. Raised on a farm in Cleveland, Mississippi, Cobb graduated from Cleveland High School before graduating from Mississippi University for Women in 1963.
Cooper-Stokes was senior judge of the Hinds County Court, having been re-elected in November 2022 to a third term. ... She helped introduce a bill in January 1958 to qualify women for jury duty in ...
Chief justices of the Supreme Court of Mississippi (15 P) Pages in category "Justices of the Supreme Court of Mississippi" The following 109 pages are in this category, out of 109 total.
Lenore Loving Prather (September 17, 1931 – April 11, 2020) was the Supreme Court of Mississippi’s first female justice and chief justice. [1] [2] Prather began her law career as an attorney and city court judge throughout the 1960s. After working as a Chancery judge in the 1970s, she became a Supreme Court judge for Mississippi in 1982.
Mississippi: Lenore L. Prather: 1982 Mississippi: Kay B. Cobb: 1999 ... The first state with a female justice was Ohio; Florence E. Allen was named to the bench in ...