§104 Mississippi

Summary

Mississippi is split into two federal judicial districts called the northern and southern districts. The northern district has three divisions. The Aberdeen Division covers Alcorn, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, Itawamba, Lee, Lowndes, Monroe, Oktibbeha, Prentiss, Tishomingo, Webster, and Winston counties. Court for Aberdeen is held at Aberdeen, Ackerman, and Corinth. The Oxford Division covers Benton, Calhoun, DeSoto, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Pontotoc, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Tate, Tippah, Tunica, Union, and Yalobusha counties. Court for Oxford is held at Oxford. The Greenville Division covers Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Coahoma, Grenada, Humphreys, Leflore, Montgomery, Sunflower, and Washington counties. Court for Greenville is held at Clarksdale, Cleveland, and Greenville. The southern district has four divisions. The Northern Division covers Copiah, Hinds, Holmes, Issaquena, Kemper, Lauderdale, Leake, Madison, Neshoba, Newton, Noxubee, Rankin, Scott, Simpson, Sharkey, Smith, Warren, and Yazoo counties, with court at Jackson. The Southern Division covers George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River, and Stone counties, with court at Gulfport. The Eastern Division covers Clarke, Covington, Forrest, Jasper, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Lamar, Lawrence, Marion, Perry, Wayne, and Walthall counties, with court at Hattiesburg. The Western Division covers Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln, Pike, and Wilkinson counties, with court at Natchez.