Contested Judicial Elections
May 9, 2016 § 2 Comments
As I mentioned here before, 2016 is not a judicial election year, but there are plenty of contested judicial elections coming up in November due to turnover. The qualifying deadline is past, and here are the posts that will be on the ballot:
MSSC
District 1, Place 3. Jim Kitchens; Kenny Griffis.
District 2, Place 2. Dawn Beam; Michael T. Shareef.
District 3, Place 1. James T. Kitchens; John Brady; Bobby Chamberlain; Steve Crampton.
District 3, Place 2. Jimmy Maxwell.
COA
District 1, Place 1. Jim Greenlee.
District 2, Place 2. Ceola James; Latrice Westbrooks.
District 3, Place 1. Jack Wilson; Ed Hannan; Dow Yoder.
District 5, Place 2. David Ishee.
Chancery Court
District 1, Place 4. T.K. Moffett;
District 20, Place 1. John McLaurin; Jim Nix.
Circuit Court
District 5, Place 2. George M. Mitchell, Jr.; Doug S. Crosby.
District 10, Place 1. Justin M. Cobb.
District 11, Place 2. Linda F. Coleman.
The next regularly-scheduled judicial election year for trial judges is 2018, but all of the appointments that were made in 2015 will make for an unusually busy judicial election cycle this year, since appointees appointed more than nine months before the general election are required to stand for election at the next regular general election.
The Better Chancery Practice Blog 
Here is a start:
http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca5/09-60889/09-60889.0.wpd-2011-03-16.html
Guessing Westbrooks has that pesky residency thing nailed down this time. She has to be an improvement over James … (waits to hear differently).