THE MAGAZINE
Spring 2019 - Special Issue 23
Woman To Woman With Joanne celebrates the 3rd Annual Mississippi Legends Ball
SPECIAL EDITION The Hon. Tomie Green
The Hon. Denise Owens
The Hon. Patricia Wise
The Hon. Eleanore Faye Peterson
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am so excited to share this Special Edition of Woman To Woman With Joanne The Magazine with you. In this issue we share the newly elected female Judges recently elected, and we share some of our former Judges as well. This was so amazing to see after the elections were over in November, all around the world female Judges were being elected. Women are strong and powerful, yet caring and compassionate. We can empathize with you but be firm at the same time. As a woman, it makes me
so proud to share some of our Mississippi with you. My Mississippi is beautiful and there are beautiful people residing here who are amazingly talented, professional, caring and they do awesome work for our communities and our state. If you are reading this magazine and have never visited Mississippi, please do yourself a favor and plan a trip. The landscape is just as beautiful as the people and we really do live up to our name, The Hospitality State.
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Ask Joanne T his is an advice column where you can ask questions or for advice on a specific subject. If there are any questions you would like to ask Joanne, please email woman2woman.joanne@ yahoo.com or you can inbox our Facebook page Woman To Woman With Joanne The Magazine. Your questions will be answered in the following issue of the magazine. Questions are asked anonymously, with the signature assuming the
problem that is being expressed. You can sign your question for example, “Confused, Mississippi.” Advice Columns generally have a limited capacity and are unable to answer all the requests they receive. In the case we are overloaded with questions and can’t answer them all in the next issue, we will answer the questions through email. I look forward to getting to know you hearing your concerns.
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Ask Joanne Questions Questions and and Answers Answers
1. How do you find your purpose?
The secret to finding your purpose is knowing yourself and knowing your heart. Knowing what makes you happy and knowing what makes you feel fulfilled. What is it that you love to do so much that you would do it for free, but you do it so well someone pays you to do it anyway? You need to have a certain measure of self-awareness. That’s how you find your purpose, by knowing yourself and trusting God to lead and guide you every step of the way.
2. Where do I start when it comes to self-care?
I think self-care starts with selfawareness. Self-awareness involves being aware of different aspects of the self, including traits, behaviors, and feelings. Essentially, it is a psychological state in which oneself becomes the focus of attention. It starts with knowing the inner most parts of yourself. We spend so much time trying to figure other people out that we forget to spend time with ourselves and learning ourselves. How can we tell someone else who we are and what we like if we don’t know ourselves? Also, taking care of your body from the inside out is the best way to start feeling good on the inside and it will spill over to the outside. What you put inside your body is just as important as what you put on the outside of your body. Dressing up and looking good on the outside doesn’t cover up a messy inside. Self-care starts from within.
3. How do I know if I’m living the life God has planned for me?
You will have a sense of peace. I’m not saying life will be easy and you will not encounter any problems, but there will be a peace on the inside. And honestly, I am not at peace all the time. Sometimes I still question whether I am doing what God wants me to do and if I am living the life He planned for me. Sometimes I don’t have a sense of peace but there are little things that happen along the way that assure me that I am on the right path. In the words of my husband, Maximus Wright...trust the still small voice.
4. Is it wrong to look for single guys in church while in church?
In my opinion, I would say yes. While you’re in church service, please try to keep your mind on God and the message going forth. After service is a different story maybe. I pray that you are able to keep an open mind and an open heart. Most times if we have been hurt before, we close that part of our heart in order to not be hurt again, but we are also closing our heart off to the possibility of receiving love as well. We put up invisible walls that people can’t see and surely, they can’t get through. I would suggest staying open to being loved. Sometimes love doesn’t come in the package that we are looking for, so we allow it to pass us by, and we miss an opportunity. Be open to love.
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5. How do you handle rejection?
Jesus was dispised and rejected but He still loved those who rejected him. Handling rejection from other people is tricky because you in fact do feel rejected when someone maybe doesn’t like you back or show interest in you. I heard T.D. Jakes say that you have to learn to separate you from your work or an idea that you have. In a relationship of any kind, you are able to handle rejection better when you know who you are in Christ. The biggest thing is to make sure you don’t have self-rejection because it only compounds the rejections you receive from others. Knowing who you are first erases any thought of you not being good enough. Knowing who you are and whose you are and believing that and standing on that truth helps you to accept the fact that a person is maybe not right for you or you are not right for them, but that doesn’t mean you are not good enough or even that you are rejected. Just that you are not the right person for that particular person.
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Mississippi Ledgend's Ball h March 2019
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The Knights Of Pillar NURSES ASSOCIATION Presents the 4th Annual
JCASF Banquet's
PARADE OF STATES
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he Knights of Pillar Nurses Association hosted its First Annual Parade of States Program on March 23, 2019 at Sacred Heart Parish Center in Canton, Ms. The afternoon was full of fun, and excitement. Ida Thomas was the M.C. and Chairman. Each member represented a state/s of
their choice with vital information, modeling, dancing, and humorous verbal comments. KPNA was led in by the Junior Nursing Auxiliary Team. KPNA will hold its 4th Annual Joyce Conway-Adams Scholarship Banquet on April 26, 2019, 7- p.m.
St. Paul Recreation Hall 505 South Union St. Canton, MS 39046
April 26, 2019 7pm
Admission: $20 Per Person at St. Paul Church Recreation Hall at 505 S. Union St in Canton, Ms. Admission $20.00 per person. Black Tie affair. All proceeds from the Parade of States went toward the JCASF. We would like to thank the community for their support.
“Junior Nurses Auxiliary Team” Pictured Below front center June' L-R Amari, Nichayla, Jaquasha “Members” Front row - Sitting - Laura Lacy. Katie Hamlin, Nettie Travis, Annie Smith, Sylvia Grant, Pearline Hatcher, Mary Johnson, Andrea Camper, Cheryl Smith, Cassandra Cannon, Bertha McGruder, sitting- Rachie Johnson Second row - Helen Owens, Monica Gilkey, Mary Simes, Shirley Griffin, Ruth Gray, and Ida Thomas
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Judges Featured in This Special Issue
Judge Crystal Wise Martin, Judge Deborah McDonald, Judge Betty Sanders, Judge Debra Giles, Judge Faye Peterson, Judge Margaret Carey McCray, Judge Carol White- Richard, and Judge Latrice Westbrooks
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The Honorable
Tomie Turner Green Senior Circuit Judge 7th Circuit Court District (Hinds) - State of MS
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udge Tomie Turner Green is a product of the Jackson Public Schools System. After completing the 11th grade, she earned a Bachelor’s Degree from Tougaloo College, a Master of Science Degree from Jackson State University, and a Doctor of Jurisprudence Degree from the Mississippi College School of Law. She completed further studies at the National College of Trial Advocacy and later completed judicial studies at the University of Nevada’s Judicial College at Reno, Nevada.
In 1999, Judge Green became the “first woman elected” to the Seventh Circuit Court District in Mississippi. In 2011, she became the first African American and the first woman to serve as Senior Circuit Judge (chief) in the district. In November 2014, she worked with the Mississippi Supreme Court and the Circuit Clerk of Hinds County to establish mandatory online electronic court filings of pleadings in all civil and criminal cases in the Hinds County
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Circuit and County Courts. Under her leadership, all four (4) circuit courtrooms were retrofitted with 21st Elmo Systems for the presentation of evidence to juries during trials. These innovations save taxpayers, litigants, lawyers, and Hinds County hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. Judge Green continues her efforts to increase accessibility, efficiency and public safety in Hinds County by reviewing and modifying court
rules and procedures to increase monitoring of pretrial indictees and thereby prevent unconstitutional detainment resulting in county liability and sanctions. Judge Green has also promoted the expansion of the circuit drug court and indigent representation, increased judicial security on and off court premises, the more timely disposition of civil and criminal matters and the establishment of digital conferencing, internet streaming and/or closed-circuit television for selected civil and criminal proceedings. Currently, Judge Green co-chairs the Hinds County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (CJCC) mandated by the U.S. Department of Justice pursuant to a 2016 compliance with the U.S. and Mississippi constitutions regarding persons arrested and charged with crimes. She also instigated efforts in Hinds County to organize a behavioral health program to timely evaluate detainees to determine competency and direct appropriate monitoring and treatment. Judge Green’s bold initiative in empaneling a grand jury to review and inspect Hinds County’s jails after multiple riots and deaths, unmasked deplorable jail conditions and numerous constitutional violations. Consequently, the Department of Justice, along with the Hinds CJCC now monitors jail detentions, timely indictments, and prosecutions of cases by prosecutors, reasonable bond setting and appropriate placement and treatment of those diagnosed with mental and/or behavioral health illnesses. A jurist for more than 33 years, Judge Green has served two terms on the Supreme Court’s Advisory Committee on Rules and has also served on the Supreme Court’s Committee on Media and the Courts. On July 1, 2003, media coverage in Mississippi’s courtrooms became a reality. The first fully televised case in
the State of Mississippi originated in Judge Green’s courtroom on court TV for a week in 2004. Judge Green served several years as an adjunct law professor at the Mississippi College School of Law, where she taught law students the procedures for successful litigation and trial court practice. Formerly, Judge Green was a partner in the law firm of Walker, Walker & Green of Jackson, Mississippi. She has served as an Assistant District Attorney for Hinds and Yazoo counties, and as a judicial clerk for U.S. District Court Judge Henry T. Wingate. A seasoned litigator, Judge Green has tried numerous cases before juries across the State of Mississippi.
Magnolia Bar Association; the Fannie Lou Hamer Leadership Award of the Mississippi Democratic Party; the Jack Young Legal Award of the NAACP; the Outstanding Government Service Award – Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.; the Freedom Fighter Award – Nation of Islam; a U.S. Congressional Record Citation; the Phenomenal Woman Award – Smith Robertson Historical Museum; a Tougaloo College Meritorious Leadership Citation; the Brown, Young & Hall Award – Jackson Branch of the NAACP; the Thurgood Marshall Drum Major Award – ML King Day Celebration – City of Jackson, MS; and the IMAGE Award in Law-Phi Beta Sigma, Inc.
Judge Green’s professional memberships have included the From 1992-1999, Judge Green was Magnolia Bar Association, Mississippi a mentor of the Mississippi House Bar Association the National of Representatives. There she was Bar Association, the American appointed as Vice Chair of the Ethics Bar Association, the Federal Bar Committee, and as sub-chair of the Association, the National Bar JudiciaryA committee. She was also Association, the American Bar appointed to serve Association, She also instigated efforts on the Elections, the Federal Bar in Hinds County to organize Association, the Insurance, Managed a behavioral health program Charles Clark Inns Health Care, Local & to timely evaluate detainees of Court, and the Private Legislation, Constitution and to determine competency Phi Alpha Delta Investigation of State Legal Fraternity. and direct appropriate Offices committees. monitoring and treatment. Other memberships Judge Green’s include: Zeta legislative record attests to her Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., Phi Kappa supportive efforts to bring honor Phi Honor Society, the NAACP, and efficiency to the judiciary. As a the Southern Christian Leadership subcommittee chairman of the House Conference (SCLC), National Judiciary Committee, she sponsored Association of Black Legislators, MS laws that created the Administrative League of Women Voters, American Offices of the Courts, the Mississippi Association of University Women, the Court of Appeals and the MS Torts Central Mississippi Coalition of 100 Claim Board. Black Women, Women for Progress, and the National Council of Negro Judge Green has received numerous Women. honors and awards, to include: the Professionalism Award from the Judge Green is currently a member Women Student Bar Association; of the St. Peter Missionary Baptist Woman of the Year Award MS Chapter Church of Jackson, Mississippi. She and of the Coalition of 100 Black Women; her late husband Cornelius are parents the Government Service Award and of a daughter, Dr. Nikisha (Dr. David) the R. Jess Brown Awards of the Ware; a son, Synarus Green and two (2) grandsons: Solomon and Asa Ware. WOMAN TO WOMAN WITH JOANNE: THE MAGAZINE •23
The Honorable
Denise Owens
Hinds County Chancery Court Judge District 3
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udge Denise Owens received her juris doctorate in 1979 from George Washington University, Washington, D.C. She is also a graduate of the Court Practice Institute, Chicago, Illinois, and has completed advanced judicial studies at the National Judicial College in Reno, Nevada and the College of Business Court Judges. Her passion for improving access to justice began while she was a young law school student at George Washington University. She worked for two years as a law clerk at the Washington, D.C. Legal Services Elder Law Clinic. After she was admitted to the bar, she landed her first job as a staff attorney for the former Central Mississippi Legal Services in Jackson from 1979 through 1982. In 1983, the Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi appointed her as assistant city prosecutor for the city. From 1983 through 1986, she was an associate with The Law Firm of Owens & Byrd. In October 1986, she became a partner and managing attorney for The Law Firm of Owens and Owens. As an educator, she has served as a pre-law program advisor and adjunct professor at Tougaloo College. She taught paralegal technology for many years at Hinds Community College. She's been one of the sponsors of the Tougaloo Pre-Law Society. She also helped sponsor legal education programs for law students and young attorneys. Since 2005, she has worked with the National Association of Women Judges to present the Color of Justice, an annual program which introduces young female students to careers as lawyers and judges. She serves on the Board of the Council of Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO) to increase diversity on the bench and bar by promoting interest in careers in law. Judge Owens and her colleagues organized a law camp to reach girls, ages twelve to fifteen, not only to encourage them to pursue law as a career, but to increase their self-esteem and awareness. Judge Owens served on many committees and with advocacy organizations. She has assisted as co-chair
of the Access to Justice Commission. During her ten years of service as commission cochair, Judge Owens helped guide its organization, the formulation of recommendations subsequently implemented by the Mississippi Supreme Court, and its continuing work to make the courts accessible to all people. Judge Owens served on the Task Force on Gender Fairness and the Gender Fairness Advisory Study Committee to educate the bench, bar and public about gender fairness. Judge Owens has received several appointments. In 2006, Judge Owens was appointed by the State Supreme Court to the States’ Pro Se Task Force, the Gender Bias Task Force, and the Race and Ethics Bias Task Force, and the Mississippi Delivery of Legal Services State Planning Board where she also served as chair. She has completed her three-year term as representative from the College of Business Court Judges to the American Bar Association Corporate and Litigation Committee. Judge Owens’ professional associations and activities include: • Member of the Mississippi Bar Association • The Mississippi Bar Foundation • The National Association of Women Judges • The Magnolia Bar Association • Member of the American Bar Association's Judicial Division • The American Trial Lawyers Judicial Division • The National Bar Association’s Judicial Division • The Magnolia Bar Association Judicial
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Division • American Bar Association (Corporate and Litigation Committee) Judge Owens currently serves as senior chancellor for Hinds County Chancery Court. She has served in leadership roles on the bench, holding every office except treasurer of the Conference of Chancery Judges. She became secretary of the Conference of Chancery Judges in 1996, vice chair and program chairperson in 1998, and again in 2000. She served as Conference chair for two years. The conference is the governing body for the Mississippi Chancery Judges. Judge Owens was the 2016 recipient of the Susie Blue Buchanan Award. This prestigious award is presented annually by the Mississippi Bar’s Women in the Profession committee to honor an outstanding woman lawyer who has achieved professional excellence and has actively paved the way to success for other women lawyers. In 2019, she will be presented with the Judicial Excellence Award at the upcoming Mississippi State Bar meeting. Judge Owens is married to attorney Bob Owens of Terry, Mississippi, and they have four children.
The Honorable
Patricia D. Wise
Former Chancellor for the 5th Chancery Court District
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udge Patricia D. Wise, elected in 1989, is one of four Chancellors of the Fifth Chancery Court District of Hinds County, Mississippi. An Oxford, Mississippi native, she has lived in Jackson, Mississippi for the past forty years. She received her Bachelors of Science in Special Education, her Masters of Communicative Disorders and her Juris Doctorate degree all from the University of Mississippi. Formerly, she was managing attorney and partner in the law firm of DOCKINS & WISE, Attorneys at Law, Jackson, Mississippi. Her private practice was in the area of Domestic RelationsFamily Law, Personal Injury and General Civil practice. She served as family law resource attorney for Central Mississippi Legal Services. She is past President and the first female President of the Magnolia Bar Association, an association comprised primarily of African-American attorneys throughout the State of Mississippi. She also served two terms as Treasurer of the same Association. She and her daughter, Crystal Wise Martin are the first legacy presidents of the Magnolia Bar. Judge Wise is a member of the American Bar Association, the Hinds County Bar Association, Conference of Chancery Court Judges, National Bar Association, and a graduate of the National Judicial College. She has served as seminar faculty speaker for the Magnolia Bar Association, Mississippi State Bar, Mississippi Pro Bono Project, Mississippi Women Lawyers' Association, Mississippi Judicial College and the National Judicial College. She is also a member and former State Coordinator of the National Association of Women Judges. She also served as the District
Director for the States of Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and Louisiana. Judge Wise formally taught Torts and Family Law at Hinds Community College and Mississippi College. She was appointed by the State Supreme Court as a member of the Complaint Tribunal. The Tribunal hears all formal complaints concerning attorney's misconduct. Prior to being elected Chancery Judge, she served as a Special Master to the Chancery Court. She is the former Chair first female and African American of the Mississippi Judicial Performance Commission. The Commission studies all complaints concerning the State Judiciary including the Supreme Court. She is a life member of the NAACP. Judge Wise is also Past President of Powell Junior High School PTA and former President of Callaway High School PTA and Band Booster Club. She is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Metro Jackson Chamber of Commerce, a former Board Member and Trustee of Leadership Jackson and Youth Leadership Jackson. Recently, she served as Co-chair to the One to One Jackson Mentoring Partnership Program, which is a National organization offering mentoring opportunities to the youth of this state and nation. She was selected to the Class of Leadership Jackson. Leadership Jackson was established by the Jackson Chamber of Commerce to develop leaders with an understanding of the promise and problems of the Jackson Metro area. Early in her career, Judge Wise was selected to the Class of Leadership America, a leadership organization comprised of 100 women
leaders across the nation. She is a Life Member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. and former Chapter President. She is a former member of the LeFleur's Bluff Chapter of the Links, Inc. and a Board Member of the Middle Mississippi Girl Scout Council. Judge Wise is a recipient of the University of Mississippi NOW award which is an Award of Distinction in recognition of outstanding leadership. Judge Wise was also the first recipient of the Black Women's Political Action Forum Brown-Hall-Young Achievement Award. This award is given in recognition of outstanding contributions to the legal profession. Judge Wise is a former Board member of the Mississippi Chapter of the American Heart Association. She is also a Charter Board member of Ole Miss Women's Council for Philanthropy. She and her husband Mark have been married for over 40 years. They have two adult daughters, Crystal and April, one son-in-law, Jamie and six grandchildren, Precious, Daniel, Alyssa, Anna Grace, Jaime and Janeen. They attend New Hope Baptist Church (Pastor Jerry Young) where Mark serves as Deacon and she serves as on the Deaconess Ministry.
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The Honorable
Eleanor Faye Peterson
Hinds County Circuit Court Judge District 4
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udge Eleanor Faye Peterson is a lifelong resident of Jackson, MS. She is a 1982 graduate of Callaway High School. After graduation from high school Judge Peterson attended the Georgia Institute of Technology and later transferred to Jackson State University where she earned her BS in Physics. After graduation from JSU Judge Peterson worked for Blue Cross Blue Shield of MS first as a claims specialist and later as a work management analyst. Judge Peterson was not satisfied with her career options and enrolled in law school at Mississippi College School of Law in the fall of 1990. She would complete here studies in 1993 and obtained her license to practice law in the same year. Judge Peterson has always been a public servant and has primarily devoted her legal career to serve in offices that impact the community. Judge Peterson has worked as a staff attorney for Central Mississippi Legal
Services, the Hinds County Public Defender’s Office and as an Assistant District Attorney for the H Hinds County District Attorney’s Office. In 2001 Judge Peterson was appointed and then elected as the First African American women in the State of Mississippi to serve as the District Attorney and at that time she was the fifth in the United States to be elected. Judge Peterson served the citizens as District Attorney from 2001 until 2007 and during her tenure with the office they prosecuted over 8,000 criminal cases, created a pretrial intervention program for first time non-violent offenders, she was instrumental in the creation of the pilot drug court program for the State of Mississippi in Hinds County, she created a criminal court facilitator to assist with management of inmates and cases and her office annually assisted crime victims with financial assistance in excess of a half million in revenue each year. After leaving the District Attorney’s office Judge Peterson started her law practice the Peterson Group where she focused on complex criminal defense. From 2009 until 2018 Judge Peterson served as the
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Family Master for Hinds County Chancery Court where she presided over the child support enforcement cases for the Department of Human Services. During her years as the Family Master that court implemented the Fatherhood Initiative program to assist father’s with obtaining employment and the Access to Visitation Program to help parents mediate visitation issues with a trained counselor. She also worked with various legal organizations conducting community meetings and trainings on expungements. Judge Peterson was recognized for her work and service by both the Mississippi volunteer Lawyers project and Mississippi Access to Justice. In 2018 Judge Peterson was elected to serve as a Circuit Court Judge in Hinds County where she presides over a trial docket comprised of general civil cases and felony proceedings. Judge Peterson is a member of numerous bar and civic organizations and including Alpha Delta Zeta chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority. She is a member of Cade Chapel where she works on the usher board. Judge Peterson is the mother of two children Christopher Peterson and Hali Peterson. Her personal motto is “Don’t ask God to look at the storm tell the storm to look at my God”
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The Honorable
Betty W. Sanders
Former Senior Circuit Judge for the 4th Circuit Court District
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udge Betty W. Sanders is the first African American elected Circuit Court Judge, post 3 in Mississippi’s Fourth Judicial District. She was the first African American attorney to represent the Greenwood Public School District and the first Circuit Court Magistrate Judge in Mississippi. In 2001, she began her service as Senior Circuit Judge. As Senior Judge, she presides over civil and criminal matters as well as the Leflore County Drug Court. Judge Betty W. Sanders is a seasoned legal professional with over 35 years of experience in the field.
She has extensive experience in the public and private sector studded with accomplishments. Judge Sanders retired as Senior Circuit Judge after serving 25 years on the trial bench. She currently serves as a Senior Status Judge and represents that conference on the MS Judicial College Board of Directors. Judge Sanders also serves on the Board of North MS Rural Legal Services, is a Mississippi Bar Foundation Fellow and a member of the MS Bar, National Bar, Magnolia Bar, and Leflore County Bar Associations. Empowered with a strong sense of volunteerism, Judge Sanders served
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over 25 years on the Board of MS Volunteer Lawyers, Mock Trial Coach, State Drug Court Advisory Committee, Commission on Judicial Performance, former Chair of the Conference of Circuit Judges and a former Secretary of the Magnolia Bar Association. Judge Sanders is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. Judge Sanders is the widow of the late attorney Alix H. Sanders, Sr. And parent of three children: Neysha L. Sanders Esq., Neeka L. Sanders, MD and Alix H. Sanders, Jr., D.D.S. She has three grandchildren.
The Honorable
Marie Wilson
Former Chancellor for the 9th Chancery District
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udge Marie Wilson was born in New Jersey, the fourth of six children. She received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology, a specialized certificate in Criminal Justice, and a Juris Doctorate Degree from Rutgers University. She has been practicing law for more than thirty years. She began her law career working for North Mississippi Rural Legal Services where she became a Managing Attorney. She also served briefly on the Board of Directors for North Mississippi Rural Legal Services. She worked as an Assistant Public Defender for Washington County, was the Public
Defender for Sunflower County, and the Public Defender for the Fourth Circuit Drug Court in Sunflower County. For the past 16 years she served as a judge for the Mississippi 9th Chancery Court District, where she began the first domestic abuse court and the first pro bono court in Mississippi. As a result of her pro bono court, she established the Mississippi State court model for access to justice program which provide free legal representation for indigent persons.
fighting for the rights of all people. From marching down the streets of Tupelo, Mississippi to deciding cases in the Chancery Court of Mississippi, she has been dedicated to upholding the constitutional rights guaranteed to all Americans. She was Vice President of Mississippi Public Defender Association. She is a member of the Mississippi Ba Association, the Magnolia Bar, and the New Jerusalem M. B. Church. She is the mother of two children and resides in Greenville, Mississippi.
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The Honorable
Tiffany Grove
Hinds County Chancery Court Judge District 5-4
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aving graduated magna cum laude from the Honors College at the University of Southern Mississippi, Grove attended Mississippi College School of Law where she was Technical Editor of the Law Review and the Overall Winner of the Copeland Cook Moot Court Competition. After law school, Grove was a law clerk to the Mississippi Court of Appeals. Grove worked in private practice for thirteen years, with the firm Williford, McAllister & Jacobus, before ascending to the bench. In November of 2018, Grove was elected to serve as the first female Chancellor for Mississippi District 5-4,
which encompasses south and west Hinds County. Grove is committed to service. She has been named “Volunteer of the Year” by Tackle a Cure, an organization dedicated to raising awareness about breast cancer prevention. She’s been named “Parent of the Year” by Clinton Christian Academy, where she served at PTO president for three years. She has received the Outstanding Service Award from Jackson Young Lawyers, after chairing the community service committee. Shes been named one of “Mississippi’s Leading Lawyers” by the Mississippi Business Journal. She is the 2018 recipient of the Outstanding Woman
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Lawyer of the Year Award, presented by the Mississippi Women Lawyer’s Association. She currently serves as President Elect of the Capital Area Bar Association, the state’s largest voluntary bar association. She served as Chair of Women in the Profession Committee of the Mississippi Bar for previous two years. Tiffany Grove and her husband, Bryan, have been married sixteen years. They live in Raymond with their two sons, Bry and Jack. Bryan is an employee of Hinds Community College. In their spare time, they enjoy watching their boys play ball.
The Honorable
Crystal Wise Martin
Chancery Court Judge for the Fifth Chancery District
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native of Jackson, Mississippi, Crystal Wise Martin, was born to Mr. Mark and Judge Patricia Wise on Christmas Day 1971. She is a product of Jackson Public Schools, having attended Powell Elementary School, North Jackson Elementary School, Powell Junior High School, Callaway High School, and the Academic and Performing Arts Complex (APAC). After graduating high school in 1990, Attorney Martin attended undergraduate school in Atlanta, Georgia where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Spelman College and a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in May and June of 1995. As an undergraduate student, she was the first Mississippian awarded the Women In Science and Engineering (W.I.S.E.) Scholarship sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (N.A.S.A). Rather than pursuing a career in the science field, Attorney Martin moved in a different direction. She was admitted to the University of Mississippi School of Law in Oxford, Mississippi. She was selected as one of five law students to teach Legal Writing to first year law students. She also worked as a student in the Lafayette County District Attorney’s Office with District Attorney Jim Hood, who is now Mississippi’s Attorney General. During her last year of law school, in lieu of the typical course work, Attorney Martin opted to take the Bar examination and complete an externship at the Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi. In May 1998, she graduated from the University of Mississippi Law School as a licensed attorney with one winning
case under her belt. After graduating, Attorney Martin began working at the law firm of Langston, Frazer, Sweet and Freese, P.A., primarily litigating complex cases in the areas of premises liability, product liability, automobile accidents, medical malpractice, nursing home cases and general tort liability. Attorney Martin is past President of the Magnolia Bar Association. Prior to serving as President, she served two terms as Secretary of the same organization. Attorney Martin has held memberships in the Mississippi Bar Association, serving as Hinds County Representative and Partnered, Young Lawyers Division. She is a member of the Capital Area Bar Association, serving on the Law Library Committee, and a member of the Mississippi Association for Justice, having served as chair of the Hurricane Katrina Relief Committee. She was appointed by the Mississippi Supreme Court to serve as a member of the “Commission to study rules concerning Pro Hac Vice.” In February 2008, she was appointed to the position of Attorney to the Hinds County Board of Supervisors. As Board Attorney, she advised the Supervisors on legal issues facing the County and the Board as a collective body. She interacted with all county departments on some level as all contracts and lawsuits were reviewed and acted upon by the Board Attorney. As the only attorney for the largest county, and the capital county, within the State, she often worked with various State offices, including the Mississippi Attorney General, the Mississippi State Auditor, the Mississippi State Tax Commission, and
the Mississippi Ethics Commission, to name a few. She has represented the County and many elected officials in various litigation matters. In 2014, she began operating the law firm of Precious Martin, Sr. & Associates, PLLC, the firm started by her and her late husband of almost 16 years, Precious T. Martin, Sr. She most recently served as an assistant Hinds County prosecutor. She is currently a Bencher of the Inns of Court and serves as a Fellow of the Mississippi Bar Foundation. She also serves as a member of the Bessie Young Council. On November 6, 2018, she was elected to serve as the Hinds County Chancery Court Judge for Subdistrict 2. This is the same position previously held by her mother, the Honorable Patricia D. Wise, for nearly thirty (30) years. Judge Wise Martin is the proud mother of four children, Precious, Jr. (age 16), Daniel (age 15), Alyssa (age 12), and Anna (age 10).
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The Honorable
Deborah McDonald
Mississippi Court of Appeals District 2 Position 1
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ississippi Court of Appeals Mississippi Court of Appeals Judge Deborah McDonald was elected Nov. 27, 2018, and began her judicial term on Jan. 7, 2019. Judge McDonald began her legal career as an attorney representing the poor at the former Southwest Mississippi Legal Services in McComb. She worked for Legal Services for nine years, serving as staff attorney, managing attorney and executive director. She entered private law practice in 1991. Her private practice areas included civil rights, employment discrimination, consumer law, personal
injury, product liability and family law. She did extensive work in voting rights litigation, including legislative redistricting. She served as Fayette Municipal Judge for 23 years. She was attorney for Jefferson County Hospital and Jefferson County Nursing Home for 24 years. She was attorney for the city of Port Gibson for almost seven years, and represented the Hazlehurst School District for three years. Judge McDonald grew up in Fayette and graduated from Jefferson County High School. She is a graduate of
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Alcorn State University, where she studied social science education. She earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Mississippi School of Law, where she served on the Moot Court Board. She is admitted to practice before all state and federal courts of Mississippi and the U.S. Supreme Court. She has one adult son, Tahrik McClellan of Jackson. She is a member of East Mount Olive MB Church in Lorman.
The Honorable Carol L. White-Richard Circuit Court Judge for the 4th Judicial District, Sub-District 3 (Leflore, Sunflower & Washington Counties)
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arol White-Richard was born and raised in Holly Springs, Mississippi, along with three older brothers and one younger sister. Carol graduated from high school in 1989, and went on to attend Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, on academic scholarship. After graduating from Tulane with a double major in English and Communications, Carol attended Vanderbilt School of Law where she graduated in 1996. Carol was admitted to the practice of law in the State of Tennessee in 1996 and in the State of Mississippi in 1997. In 1999, Carol moved from Nashville, Tennessee, to the Mississippi Delta
where she married Attorney Bennie L. Richard. Carol has lived and worked in the MS Delta for the past seventeen years representing poor, underserved, and disenfranchised individuals. Carol served as the first female and the first African-American Public Defender for Washington County. She also worked as an assistant District Attorney under the Honorable Joyce Chiles. Carol served as one of 3 Public Defenders for Sunflower County and practiced in private practice with her husband and law partner, Attorney Bennie Richard, with the Richard Law Firm in Greenville. Carol currently serves as 1 of 4 Circuit Court Judges of the 4th Judicial District. She recognizes the
importance of family and spends as much time with as possible with Bennie and their four beautiful children, JaMarcus (30), Zion (12), Zachary (10) and Zaire (8). Carol is no stranger to adversity and hard work and has always had a heart for helping people and a desire to serve her community. She believes that to whom much is given, much is required.
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The Honorable
Toni Walker Terrett
Ninth District Circuit Judge for sub-district 9-1
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ICKSBURG, Mississippi – Toni Walker Terrett was elected as judge for the Ninth District Circuit Court of Mississippi in November 2018. She is the first woman to serve in this capacity. Prior to her election, she served nearly 10 years as Community Court judge and senior Municipal Court judge. She also worked in private practice as a solo practitioner. In addition to representing clients in a variety of legal matters, her background includes experience as a Drug Court Public Defender, law clerk to Ninth District Chancellor Vicki Barnes, and contract attorney for the Mississippi Center for Legal Services. Judge Terrett has served as project director for the Vicksburg Domestic Violence Victims’ Empowerment program since 2013. As director, she has helped to expand the program to provide more services to victims while holding defendants accountable and educating the community. In 2016, the Mississippi Coalition Against Domestic Violence recognized her work in domestic violence awareness by awarding her the Community Awareness Award. As municipal court judge, Judge Terrett oversaw the implementation of the house arrest program and the use of a collection agency for past-due fines. In addition to supervising the Court Services staff, she oversaw the City of Vicksburg’s community service program and developed the Community Impact Panel – an initiative that provides mentoring by community leaders to younger, first-time nonviolent offenders. Judge Terrett is active in the community as former vice president and current president of the board of directors for Mountain of Faith Ministries and an avid volunteer for organizations such as the United Way of West Central Mississippi and Salvation
Army, among others. She is a member of the Vicksburg Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Blacks In Government, Believers of Faith Cancer Organization and Mt. Alban M.B. Church where she serves as pianist for the Women of Faith Choir. She has served as a host for the Annual Restoration Day, a program that provides free legal counsel to individuals seeking to expunge their criminal records, sponsored by the Magnolia Bar Association. Judge Terrett is also the recipient of numerous awards and honors. In 2018, the Southern Region of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority awarded Judge Terrett the Social Action Trailblazer Award at the annual Delta Days at the State Capitol. Terrett has also been recognized by The Vicksburg Post as a Community
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Hero and The Mississippi Business Journal as a 2016 Leader in Law and one of the 50 Leading Business Women in 2010. Terrett is a magna cum laude graduate of Vicksburg High School. She earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Tougaloo College and master’s in journalism from the University of Memphis. She graduated from the Mississippi College School of Law and is a member of the American Bar, Mississippi Bar, Warren County and Magnolia Bar Associations. She currently serves on the faculty of Alcorn State University where she teaches mass communications law and social media. Terrett and her husband, Andre, are the proud parents of five teenagers.
The Honorable Latrice A. Westbrooks Cout of Appeals of the State of Mississippi interim communications director for Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba, then joined the Jackson City Attorney’s office as legal counsel for the Jackson Police Department. She returned to private law practice in 2014. She served as Municipal Judge for the city of Lexington before she was elected to the Court of Appeals.
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udge Latrice Westbrooks of Lexington was sworn in as a member of the Mississippi Court of Appeals on Jan. 3, 2017. She was elected Nov. 8, 2016, to Court of Appeals District 2, Position 2. Judge Westbrooks was born in Memphis, Tennessee. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee. She earned a law degree from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law in 1997. She was admitted to the Mississippi Bar that same year.
She became an assistant district attorney in the Second Circuit District of Harrison, Hancock and Stone counties in October 1997. She was the first African American woman assistant district attorney in the Second Circuit District. She joined the Jackson law firm of Byrd and Associates in 2000, then opened her own law practice in 2001, representing clients in both criminal and civil matters. She served as prosecutor for the city of Durant and as city attorney for the town of Isola. For nearly 10 years, she served as a public defender in Holmes County. In 2013, she became
She has worked in conjunction with the Magnolia Bar Association, One Voice, the NAACP, the Mississippi Center for Justice, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Mississippi Youth Justice Project and the ACLU. She served as a Southeast Regional and Central Director of the Magnolia Bar Association. She previously chaired the Criminal Justice Committee for the State Conference of the NAACP. She is a member of the Mississippi Bar, Magnolia Bar Association, American Bar Association, National Bar Association, the National Conference of Black Lawyers, the Capital Area Bar Association and the Metro Jackson Black Women Lawyers Association. She is a former member of the Mississippi Association for Justice and the Mississippi Public Defenders Association. She is a life member of the NAACP, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and Women for Progress MS, Inc. She is a past board member of Leadership Greater Jackson Alumnae, the I.S. Sanders YMCA, and the National African American Student Leadership Conference held at Rust College from 1997 - 2010. On May 19, 2017, Judge Westbrooks was named Outstanding Woman Lawyer of 2017 by the Mississippi Women Lawyers’ Association. Judge Westbrooks is a resident of Lexington, Mississippi. She is a member of Cade Chapel M.B. Church.
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The Honorable
Adrienne Wooten
Hinds County Circuit Court Judge District 1
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he Honorable Adrienne Wooten is a native of Meridian, Mississippi. Judge Wooten, is the first African American female to hold the position of Circuit Court Judge of District 7, Place 1 in Hinds County, Mississippi, after a historical run-off election on November 27, 2018. Prior to her transition to the Judiciary, Judge Wooten was a solo practitioner whose areas of specialty included criminal law, premises liability, personal injury, drug product liability, product liability, mass tort litigation, medical malpractice, wrongful death, and family law. Judge Wooten began her career 19 years ago as an associate at the Law Firm of Blackmon & Blackmon, PLLC, and in 2004, she began operating the Law
Office of Adrienne Hooper-Wooten, PLLC, with offices in Ridgeland and Lexington, Mississippi. For 19 years she actively litigated civil matters and served as an Assistant Public Defender for Holmes County for 15 years representing indigent defendants. She began and completed her undergraduate studies at Alcorn State University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Pre-Law. She then continued her tutelage at the University of Mississippi School of Law where she received her Juris Doctorate and where she met and married her husband, Dewayne Wooten. Judge Wooten is the daughter of the late Tommy Hooper, Sr. and Jo Ann Hooper.
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Judge Wooten served for 11 years in the Mississippi State Legislature representing District 71. She served on the committees of Insurance, Judiciary B, Judiciary En Banc, Municipalities, University and Colleges, and Public Health and Human Services during the last years of her legislative tenure. She is a member of the American Bar Association, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Metro Jackson Black Women Lawyers Association, Mississippi Women’s Lawyers Association, Magnolia Bar Association, the Mississippi State Bar, and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated. Judge Wooten and Dewayne have two (2) fur babies, Buster and Biff Wooten.
The Honorable Chancery Court Judge for the 9th District (Humphreys, Issaquena, Sharkey, Sunflower, Warren & Washington Counties)
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ebra M. Giles is a native of Greenville, Mississippi. She is the youngest of six children to her parents James and Georgia M. Giles. She graduated from Greenville High School and went on to Tulane University where she majored in Cell and Molecular Biology. At the University of Alabama at Birmingham she majored in MS in Nutritional Biochemistry and MSPH in Toxicology, and at the University of Iowa. (PhD., 3 YEARS COMPLETED). She received her Juris Doctorate Degree from the University of Mississippi.
Debra M. Giles
Giles also interned with the United States Attorney Office in the Southern District of Alabama. Prior to private practice, she served as a Law Clerk for Justice Leslie King. She has done pro bono work for the Mississippi Volunteer Lawyer’s Project and North Mississippi Rural Legal Services for the past almost 10 years. She has served as a mediator with the Mississippi Department of Education, Office of Special Education for 9 years, she served as an instructor for Hinds
Community College for over 9 years and she worked as a certified youth defender and guardian ad litem for almost 10 years. She has been a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority for over 27 years and she is a member of the Order of Eastern Star. She has a Membership with The Charles Clark American Inn of Court, she is a Recipient of the Curtis E. Coker Access to Justice Award and a Graduate of the Mississippi Bar Leadership Forum Class.
Prior to Law school, she worked as a professor at Talladega College where she taught Biology and Environmental Health, she served as a McNair Coordinator, a published Biomedical Researcher with emphasis on the Human Papillomavirus and a published Social Science researcher with an emphasis on Children’s Mental Health and Inmates Mental Health. Judge
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The Honorable Kamesha Brown Mumford Municipal Court Judge for the City of Canton Mississippi
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amesha Brown Mumford is a native of Canton, Mississippi. She is the daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Sammy and Shirley Brown. After graduating from Canton High School in 2000, Kamesha received her Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science with a concentration in Women’s Studies from Mississippi State University (2003) and her Juris Doctorate from Mississippi College School of Law (2007). She has been licensed to practice law in Mississippi since 2007 and licensed to practice law in Louisiana since 2012. Kamesha currently works as Senior Corporate Counsel for a real estate investment firm, where she specializes in real
property and tax. She has practiced in nearly every Chancery Court in the State of Mississippi, and in most of the District Courts in North Louisiana. In 2013, Kamesha was appointed Municipal Court Judge for the City of Canton and is now serving her second term in that position. She was elected by her fellow municipal court judges as President of the Mississippi Municipal Judges Association in June of 2017 and is a member of the DUI Information Exchange Advisory Committee. Kamesha is also a member of the Magnolia Bar Association and the Capital Area Bar Association.
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Kamesha is very actively involved in the community. She serves on the Board of Directors of Dress for Success Metro Jackson, as President and General Counsel. She is a 2010 graduate of Leadership Madison County and a 2013 graduate of Leadership Greater Jackson. Kamesha is also a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.; the Lefleur’s Bluff Chapter of the Links, Inc., and Women For Progress. In 2013, she was selected as one of Mississippi’s 50 Leading Business Women. Kamesha lives in Jackson, MS with her husband, Gerald and children, Garrison and Gianna.
The Honorable
Tomika H. Irving
Circuit Court Judge of the 22nd Judicial District of Mississippi (Claiborne, Copiah & Jefferson Counties)
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udge Tomika H. Irving is a native of Jefferson County, Fayette, Mississippi. She is a Top Ten graduate of Jefferson County High School. She received two Bachelors of Arts Degrees -one in Political Science and one in Journalism - from the University of Southern Mississippi; a Master of Arts degree in Political Science from Mississippi State University; and her Juris Doctorate Degree from the University of Mississippi School of Law. She received her teaching certification through Alcorn State University and holds an AAA certification to teach seventh through twelfth grade social studies and journalism. Judge Irving also has doctoral studies from the University of Southern Mississippi in Administration of Justice.
In 2006, she was appointed as the Municipal Court Judge for the Town of Crosby, Mississippi, and in 2011, she was elected as the Justice Court Judge (Eastern District) in Jefferson County. In 2016, she was distinguished as a ‘Top Ten under 40’ criminal defense attorney by the National Academy of Criminal Defense Attorneys, Inc. In 2018, after practicing law for 14 years, Judge Irving was elected as the first female and the first AfricanAmerican to hold the position of Circuit Court Judge of the 22nd Judicial District of Mississippi, which includes Claiborne, Copiah and Jefferson Counties - winning this seat from the incumbent who had been in the position for 24 years.
In circuit court, Judge Irving The weekend after graduating from hears felony criminal prosecutions, law school, Judge Irving began working civil lawsuits, appeals from justice for Isaac K. Byrd & Associates, PLLC court, municipal court and from as an associate. Two administrative boards In 2018, after practicing and commissions. years later, she joined law for 14 years, Judge Gibbs & Martin, PLLC Trials in circuit court Irving was elected as the are heard with a (now Precious Martin, Sr. & Associates) in first female and the first 12-member jury and Jackson, Mississippi. African-American to hold usually one or two After working for the position of Circuit Court alternate jurors. two years, Irving Judge... left Gibbs & Martin, Judge Irving’s PLLC and opened her current professional general practice law firm in Jackson. memberships include the Mississippi One year later, she moved her practice Bar Association and Magnolia Bar to Fayette, providing legal services Association. She is a faithful member in family law and criminal law to the of the Hollywood Missionary Baptist citizens of Southwest Mississippi, while Church under the leadership of Rev. Dr. serving as the guardian ad litem for Elvis E. Colenburg, Sr., where she serves children on the Women’s Ministry and Mother in Jefferson County Youth Court, the Board. She is an active member of the public defender in Fayette Municipal Jefferson County Institute for Cancer Court and a public defender in & Terminally Ill Patients and the Alcorn Wilkinson County Circuit Court. Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
is married to Rev. Boris P. Irving, TShe OMIKA H.Cancer IRVING an 18-year Lymphoma Survivor, nd and they are the proud parents of two Circuit Court Judge offour-legged the 22 children:Judicial Zach, a chocolate Dist Labrador retriever and Maxx, a German (Claiborne, Copiah & Jefferson Co shepherd. Personally, Judge Irving understands the words of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: “If you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.”
Judge Tomika H. Irving is a native of Jefferson Coun Top Ten graduate of Jefferson County High School. She Degrees -one in Political Science andProfessionally, one inJudge Journalism Irving believes the quote by Eleanor Roosevelt: Mississippi; a Master of Arts degree in in“Justice Political Science from cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.” her Juris Doctorate Degree from the University of Mississippi Spiritually, Judge Irving embodies II teaching certification through Alcorn State University and ho Timothy 1:7 which states, “For God has not given seventh through twelfth grade social studies and journalism us a spirit of fear, but of power and of and a sound mind.” in Adminis studies from the University of Southern love Mississippi WOMAN TO WOMAN WITH JOANNE: THE MAGAZINE •47
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