Mississippi circuit courts
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The Mississippi circuit courts hear felony criminal prosecutions and civil lawsuits. They also hear appeals from the county courts, the justice courts, the municipal courts and from various administrative boards and commissions such as the Workers’ Compensation Commission and the Mississippi Department of Employment Security.
There are twenty-two circuit court districts and fifty-one circuit court judges. Seven of the fifty-one judges are women.
The number of circuit judges per district ranges from one to four. Circuit Court judges are selected in non-partisan elections to serve four-year terms. Trials are heard with a 12-member jury and usually one or two alternate jurors. A judge may preside without a jury if the dispute is a question of law rather than fact.
Districts and associated judges
- District 1: Counties of Alcorn, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Tishomingo. Judges James Roberts, Paul Funderburk, Thomas Gardner, Jim Pounds
- District 2: Counties of Hancock, Harrison, Stone. Judges Lisa Dodson, Jerry Terry, Roger Clark, Steve Simpson.
- District 3: Counties of Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Lafayette, Marshall, Tippah and Union. Judges Andrew Howorth, Henry Lackey and Robert Elliott.
- District 4: Counties of Leflore, Sunflower, Washington. Judges Betty Sanders, Richard Smith, Margaret Carey-McCray and Ashley Hines.
- District 5: Counties of Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Grenada, Montgomery, Webster and Winston. Judges Clarence Morgan and Joseph Loper.
- District 6: Counties of Adams, Amite, Franklin, Wilkinson. Judges Lillie Sanders and Forrest Johnson.
- District 7: Hinds County. Judges Swan Yerger, Winston Kidd, Bobby DeLaughter and Tomie Green.
- District 8: Counties of Leake, Neshoba, Newton, Scott. Judges Marcus Gordon and Vernon Cotten.
- District 9: Counties of Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren. Judges Frank Vollor and Isadore Patrick.
- District 10: Counties of Clarke, Kemper, Lauderdale, Wayne. Judges Lester Williamson and Robert Bailey.
- District 11: Counties of Bolivar, Coahoma, Quitman, Tunica. Judges Charles Webster, Al Smith and Kenneth Thomas.
- District 12: Counties of Forrest, Perry. Judge Robert Helfrich.
- District 13: Counties of Covington, Jasper, Simpson, Smith. Judge Robert Evans.
- District 14: Counties of Lincoln, Pike, Walthall. Judges Michael Taylor and David Strong.
- District 15: Counties of Jefferson Davis, Lamar, Lawrence, Marion, Pearl River. Judges R.I. Prichard and Prentiss Harrell.
- District 16: Counties of Clay, Lowndes, Noxubee, Oktibbeha. Judges Lee Howard and Jim Kitchens.
- District 17: Counties of Desoto, Panola, Tallahatchie, Tate, Yalobusha. Judges Robert Chamberlin, Andrew Baker and James McClure.
- District 18: Jones County. Judge Billy Joe Landrum.
- District 19: Counties of George, Greene, Jackson. Judges Robert Krebs, Dale Harkey and Kathy King Jackson.
- District 20: Counties of Madison, Rankin. Judges William Chapman and Samac Richardson.
- District 21: Counties of Holmes, Humphreys, Yazoo. Judge Jannie Lewis.
- District 22: Counties of Claiborne, Copiah, Jefferson. Judge Lamar Pickard.
