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Leslie H. Southwick
Nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Judge Leslie H. Southwick is a highly respected attorney with an
extensive record of public service as a judge and military officer.
- Judge Southwick has been nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Fifth Circuit, which hears appeals from the federal district
courts of Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
- Judge Southwick served as a member of the Mississippi Court of
Appeals from the court’s creation in January 1995 through
December 2006.
- In 2005, Judge Southwick served in Iraq as a member of the Mississippi
National Guard’s 155th Brigade Combat Team. While on
active duty, he served as Deputy Staff Judge Advocate from August
2004 to July 2005 and then as Staff Judge Advocate from July to
January 2006.
- From 1992 to 1997, he served as a member of the Judge Advocate
General’s Corps in the U.S. Army Reserves.
- Judge Southwick is currently a visiting professor at the Mississippi
College School of Law, where he has been an adjunct professor since
1998. He also taught at the school from 1985 to 1989.
- Judge Southwick had a distinguished record as an attorney in the
public and private sectors prior to his service on the state bench.
- From 1989 to 1993, he served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General
for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Division. His
duties included supervising the Federal Programs Branch, which represents
the United States in lawsuits, and the Office of Consumer Litigation,
which enforces the country’s consumer protection laws.
- He had a general civil practice with the Jackson, Mississippi,
firm of Brunini, Grantham, Grower & Hewes, as an associate from
1977 to 1983 and as a partner from 1983 to 1989.
- Judge Southwick possesses excellent academic credentials and professional
training.
- He served as a law clerk for Judge Charles Clark of the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and Judge John F. Onion, Presiding
Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
- He received his law degree from the University of Texas School
of Law in 1975.
- He attended Rice University and graduated cum laude in
1972.
- Judge Southwick is dedicated to serving his community in many capacities.
- He has been a Habitat for Humanity volunteer in his community
from 1993 to the present.
- He served as board member and president of the Jackson Servant
Leadership Corps, which provided leadership training, religious
support, and housing for recent college graduates who served the
inner-city community for a year.
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