• District Court, S.D. Mississippi

  Judge

  1985 – present · 41 yrsAppointed by Ronald Reagan

Career

• Assistant U.S. attorney

  Southern District of Mississippi

  1984 – 1985 · 1 yr

• U.S. Naval Reserve

  1983 – present · 43 yrs

• Assistant district attorney

  Mississippi Circuit Court, Seventh Judicial District

  1980 – 1984 · 4 yrs

• Adjunct professor

  Mississippi College School of Law

  1978 – 1983 · 5 yrs

• Adjunct lecturer

  Tidewater Community College

  1976 – present · 50 yrs

• Special assistant attorney general

  State of Mississippi

  1976 – 1980 · 4 yrs

• Adjunct instructor

  Golden Gate University

  1975 – 1976 · 1 yr

• trial counsel

  1974 – 1976 · 2 yrs

• Private practice

  1973 – present · 53 yrs

• U.S. Navy lieutenant

  Naval Legal Services Office

  1973 – 1976 · 3 yrs

• senior assistant defense counsel

  1973 – 1974 · 1 yr

• Law clerk, Community Legal Aid

  1972 – 1973 · 1 yr

Education