James D. Maxwell II
Associate Justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court
James Donald "Jimmy" Maxwell II (born May 4, 1975) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi. He previously served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.
Early life, education and career
Maxwell was born on May 4, 1975, in Metairie, Louisiana. He received a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Mississippi. He attended Mississippi College School of Law for his first year of law school, before completing his final two years and receiving a Juris Doctor from the University of Mississippi School of Law. He practiced civil law in Jackson in the firm of Daniel Coker Horton & Bell before returning to Oxford to serve as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi in 2002.
State judicial service in Mississippi
On February 2, 2009, Governor Haley Barbour appointed Maxwell to the Mississippi Court of Appeals. He was then elected in 2010 and re-elected in 2014.
On December 23, 2015, Governor Phil Bryant announced Maxwell's elevation to the State Supreme Court.
In 2023, Maxwell wrote the 8-0 majority opinion of Saunders, et al.
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