How the Contested Chancery Judge Races Turned Out
November 6, 2014 § 11 Comments
The following is what I have pieced together from news reports. If anyone can add anything, please feel free to comment.
Eighth District (Hancock, Harrison and Stone), Place 2
- C. Stephen Benvenutti
- Jennifer Schloegel (incumbent) W
Eighth District, Place 3
- Ronnie Cochran
- Sanford R. “Sandy” Steckler (Incumbent) W
Eleventh District (Holmes, Leake, Madison and Yazoo)
- Barbara Ann Blunston
- Robert G. Clark, III W
To fill the seat being vacated by Chancellor Janace Harvey-Goree
Thirteenth District (Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Simpson and Smith), Place 1
- J. Larry Buffington
- David Shoemake (Incumbent) W
Thirteenth District, Place 2
- Mary K. Burnham
- Deborah Kennedy
- Gerald M. Martin
To fill the seat being vacated by Chancellor Joe Dale Walker
Sixteenth District (George, Greene and Jackson), Place 1
- D. Neil Harris (incumbent)
- Paula S. Yancey
Last report was that the unofficial total had Harris ahead by 38 votes.
Sixteenth District, Place 3
- Michael L. Fondren W
- Gary L. Roberts
Incumbent G. Charles “Chuck” Bordis withdrew from the race
Eighteenth District (Benton, Calhoun, Lafayette, Marshall and Tippah), Place 1
- Glenn Alderson (incumbent) W
- Carnelia Pettis Fondren
- Tina Duggard Scott
Eighteenth District, Place 2
- Helen Kennedy Robinson
- Robert Q. Whitwell (incumbent) W
The Better Chancery Practice Blog 
Fifteenth District (Lincoln and Copiah) To fill the seat vacated by Judge Ed Patten
Joseph Durr – W
Renee Berry
Off topic here, but are y’all keeping up with the developments on Chris Epps’ federal indictment? Good gosh almighty. Supposedly more to come of this.
Tom Freeland’s blog today has a link to the indictment.
I saw it- just silly.
Byers is in a run-off up in Lafayette County for Circuit Judge. This may be THE most depressing thing about Tuesday’s elections. She’s pretty much proven she lacks what they call a judicial temperament. I mean there are TWO reported decisions from the Mississippi Supreme Court regarding actions taken against her by the Judicial Performance Commission.
That is a shame. Were there 3 or 4 candidates running, and if so could those candidates get their electorate to throw support behind the other guy?
Wait a minute, what office did she hold when the JPC dinged her? I assumed since the JPC went after her she was already a circuit judge, but I don’t see her listed on the county website in that capacity.
She WAS a circuit court judge in the Delta. She was so bad she lost a reelection contest to an opponent. So she’s been trying to get elected elsewhere. You, know, where they might not know how terrible she was when she previously sat on the bench.
http://caselaw.findlaw.com/ms-supreme-court/1441221.html
Good gosh that’s awful. FWIW, there was a circuit judge candidate down in Columbus running against Coleman that had federal tax liens filed against her property. When asked about it in the local paper, she said something like “I don’t anything about that, you’ll have to ask my husband, that’s his business . . . .” She didn’t even come close to getting a runoff.
In Place 2 for the 13th, there will be a runoff between Burnham and Martin.
Thanks. I never could find anything about that one.