§104 Mississippi

Summary

Mississippi is split into two federal court districts: the Northern District and the Southern District. 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. Courts for Aberdeen Division will meet in Aberdeen, Ackerman, and Corinth. The Oxford Division covers Benton, Calhoun, DeSoto, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Pontotoc, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Tate, Tippah, Tunica, Union, and Yalobusha counties, with court in Oxford. The Greenville Division covers Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Coahoma, Grenada, Humphreys, Leflore, Montgomery, Sunflower, and Washington counties, with courts in 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 in Jackson. The Southern Division covers George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River, and Stone counties, with court in Gulfport. The Eastern Division covers Clarke, Covington, Forrest, Jasper, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Lamar, Lawrence, Marion, Perry, Wayne, and Walthall counties, with court in Hattiesburg. The Western Division covers Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln, Pike, and Wilkinson counties, with court in Natchez.