United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi
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The United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi is a United States district court in the Fifth Circuit with facilities in Aberdeen, Ackerman, Clarksdale, Cleveland, Corinth and Greenville.
The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi represents the United States in civil and criminal litigation in the court. The current United States Attorney is Jim Greenlee.
See also: United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi.
History
Fourteen judges have served in the Northern District:
- George Adams, (1838)
- Samuel Jameson Gholson, (1839-1861)
- Robert Andrews Hill, (1866-1891)
- Henry Clay Niles, (1891-1918)
- Edwin Ruthven Holmes, (1918-1929)
- Elijah Allen Cox, (1929-1974)
- Claude Feemster Clayton, (1958-1967)
- William Colbert Keady, (1968-1989)
- Orma Rinehart Smith, (1968-1982)
- Lyonel Senter, (1979-present)
- Neal Biggers, (1984-present)
- Glen Davidson, (1985-present)
- Allen Pepper, (1999-present)
- Chief Judge Michael Mills, (2001-present)
