About The Bar
Leadership
The Mississippi Bar’s leadership is responsible for setting strategic direction, ensuring ethical stewardship, and maintaining the integrity of the organization’s mission. This section provides an at-a-glance overview of the Officers, Board of Commissioners, and other governing bodies responsible for guiding the Bar’s priorities and operational decisions.
2025-2026 Board of Commissioners
| President | J. Rhea Tannehill, Jr., Oxford | |
| President-Elect | A. Kelly Sessoms III, Pascagoula | |
| Second Vice-President | Brittany Brooks Frankel, Greenville | |
| Immediate Past President | Meade W. Mitchell, Ridgeland | |
| YLD President | Anna K. Rush, Hattiesburg | |
| YLD President-Elect | Christina Seanor, Jackson | |
| 1st Circuit Court District | John O. Windsor, Corinth | |
| 2nd Circuit Court District | Post 1 | D. Christopher Daniel, Gulfport |
| 2nd Circuit Court District | Post 2 | Caroline Haas, Bay St. Louis |
| 3rd Circuit Court District | Post 1 | Julie Howell Addison, Oxford |
| 3rd Circuit Court District | Post 2 | Michael Farese, Ashland |
| 4th Circuit Court District | H. Don Brock, Jr., Greenwood | |
| 5th Circuit Court District | Lauren Rogers Dunn, Louisville | |
| 6th Circuit Court District | Lucien C. Gwin III, Natchez | |
| 7th Circuit Court District | Post 1 | Katrina S. Brown, Jackson |
| 7th Circuit Court District | Post 2 | Cody C. Bailey, Jackson |
| 7th Circuit Court District | Post 3 | Clarence Webster III, Jackson |
| 7th Circuit Court District | Post 4 | Nakimuli Davis-Primer, Jackson |
| 7th Circuit Court District | Post 5 | Gayla Carpenter-Sanders, Jackson |
| 8th Circuit Court District | James Edwin Smith III, Carthage | |
| 9th Circuit Court District | Joshua L. Dixon, Vicksburg | |
| 10th Circuit Court District | Robert D. Jones, Meridian | |
| 11th Circuit Court District | Jessica M. Carr, Cleveland | |
| 12th Circuit Court District | Andrew Hatten, Hattiesburg | |
| 13th Circuit Court District | A. Regnal Blackledge, Collins | |
| 14th Circuit Court District | Brendon Adams, Brookhaven | |
| 15th Circuit Court District | Elizabeth L. Porter, Hattiesburg | |
| 16th Circuit Court District | Marlin M. Stewart, West Point | |
| 17th Circuit Court District | Sarah Ashton Baker, Batesville | |
| 18th Circuit Court District | William L. Thames, Laurel | |
| 19th Circuit Court District | Anthony N. Lawrence IV, Ocean Springs | |
| 20th Circuit Court District | Post 1 | Levoy Bryant Agnew IV, Brandon |
| 20th Circuit Court District | Post 2 | Sarah Moulder Butler, Brandon |
| 20th Circuit Court District | Post 3 | Jeremy P. McNinch, Brandon |
| 20th Circuit Court District | Post 4 | James L. Kelly, Brandon |
| 21st Circuit Court District | Robert E. Hayes, Jr., Southaven | |
| 22nd Circuit Court District | Jennifer Summers, Yazoo City | |
| 23rd Circuit Court District | Nickita Banks, Port Gibson | |
| Member At Large | RaToya Gilmer McGee, Jackson |
Past Presidents
2024 – Meade W. Mitchell
2023 – Jenny Tyler Baker
2022 – Blake Teller
2021 – Robert L. Gibbs
2020 – Jennifer Ingram Johnson
2019 – Amanda Jones Tollison
2018 – Patricia W. Bennett
2017 – J. Richard Barry
2016 – W. Briggs Hopson, III
2015 – Roy D. Campbell, III
2014 – Eugene M. Harlow
2013 – Guy Mitchell III
2012 – Lemuel G. Adams, III
2011 – Hugh D. Keating
2010 – Nina Stubblefield Tollison
2009 – George R. Fair
2008 – H. Rodger Wilder
2007 – Robert R. Bailess
2006 – C. York Craig, Jr.
2005 – Joy Lambert Phillips
2004 – Charles J. Swayze, Jr.
2003 – Richard C. Roberts III
2002 – Donald C. Dornan, Jr.
2001 – W.C. “Cham” Trotter, III
2000 – Richard T. Bennett
1999 – James O. Dukes
1998 – Guthrie T. Abbott
1997 – Reuben V. Anderson
1996 – Richard D. Foxworth
1995 – L.F. Sams, Jr.
1994 – W. Scott Welch, III
1993 – David R. Smith
1992 – Grady F. Tollison, Jr.
1991 – Alex A. Alston, Jr.
1990 – Leonard A. Blackwell II
1989 – Frank O. Crosthwait, Jr.
1988 – Pat H. Scanlon
1987 – Joseph R. Meadows
1986 – Fred M. Bush, Jr.
1985 – Walter Eppes, Jr.
1984 – Ernest W. Graves
1983 – Jack Dunbar
1982 – Curtis E. Coker
1981 – Leonard B. Melvin, Jr.
1980 – Leslie Darden
1979 – Jack A. Travis
1978 – Raymond L. Brown
1977 – Elzy J. Smith, Jr.
1976 – Erskine W. Wells
1975 – Frank D. Montague, Jr.
1974 – James Hugh Ray
1973 – Joe H. Daniel
1972 – Tally Riddell
1971 – Lester Sumners
1970 – William A. Bacon
1969 – Boyce Holleman
1968 – Chester Curtis
1967 – N.W. Overstreet, Jr.
1966 – John T. Armstrong
1965 – Orma R. Smith
1964 – Earl T. Thomas
1963 – Edward J. Currie
1962 – C. Sidney Carlton
1961 – Sherwood W. Wise
1960 – David Cottrell, Jr.
1959 – Hugh N. Clayton
1958 – Breed O. Mounger
1957 – W. S. Henley
1956 – M.M. Roberts
1955 – John C. Satterfield
1954 – Robert J. Farley
1953 – Jerome S. Hafter
1952 – Charles B. Snow
1951 – Quitman Ross
1950 – Gibson B. Witherspoon
1949 – Robert W. Thompson, Jr.
1948 – Phil Stone
1947 – Stokes V. Robertson, Sr.
1946 – R.C. Stovall
1945 – Earle L. Wingo
1944 – Bidwell Adam
1943 – Ross Barnett
1942 – Charles F. Engle
1941 – Alexander Currie
1940 – W.E. Morse
1939 – W.H.Watkins
1938 – R.M. Kelly
1937 – Marion W. Reily
1936 – David E. Crawley
1935 – Frank E. Everett, Sr.
1934 – W. Calvin Wells
1933 – J.H. Price
1932 – Jeff Truly
1931 – W.W. Venable
1930 – George H. Butler
1929 – T.C. Kimbrough
1928 – George W. Currie
1927 – R.E. Wilbourn
1926 – D.W. Houston
1925 – J.N. Flowers
1924 – Stone Deavours
1923 – R.H. Thompson
1922 – J.B. Holden
1921 – George J. Leftwich
1920 – Gabe Jacobson
1919 – J.B. Harris
1918 – S.E. Travis
1917 – A.A. Armistead
1916 – A.T. Stovall
1915 – R.B.Campbell
1914 – Sydney Smith
1913 – Robert B. Mayes
1912 – R.N. Miller
1911 – A.F. Fox
1910 – W.H. Powell
1909 – T.H. Somerville
1908 – J.S. Sexton
1907 – Murray F. Smith (June)
1907 – C. H. Alexander
1906 – G.D. Shands (Jan-June)
