Jack L. Wilson is a Judge of the

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Biography and career

Wilson graduated from the

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with a

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degree and then earned his

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from

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in 2004. After law school, he served as a law clerk to Judge

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of the

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and worked at

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From 2009 to 2012, Wilson worked at

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. He also was an adjunct at the

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. Wilson served as deputy general counsel to

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Phil Bryant Dewey Phillip Bryant (born December 9, 1954) is an American politician who served as the 64th governor of Mississippi from 2012 to 2020. A member of the Republican Party, he was the 31st lieutenant governor of Mississippi from 2008 to 2012 and 4 ...

from 2012 to 2013, and then was co-chief counsel from 2013 to 2014. He then returned to

as a counsel in the

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office, where he continued to work until receiving his judicial appointment. In the past, Wilson served as president of the Mississippi Lawyers chapter of the

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and currently serves as a Commissioner of the

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Judicial tenure

Wilson was appointed by Governor Bryant, effective July 1, 2015, to the

Position 1 seat that covered District 3. The seat was vacated by Larry Roberts, who retired earlier in the year and left a partial term expiring on January 1, 2017. Wilson ran for election in 2016. He won a nonpartisan election to a term that expires on January 5, 2025.

Electoral history

;2016

References

External links

* Living people 1970s births 21st-century American lawyers 21st-century American judges Baptists from Mississippi Harvard Law School alumni Mississippi College School of Law faculty Mississippi Court of Appeals judges Mississippi lawyers University of Mississippi alumni Year of birth uncertain Place of birth missing (living people) {{Mississippi-state-judge-stub