Background
Hafter, Jerome Charles was born on May 16, 1945 in Orlando, Florida, United States. Son of Jerome Sidney and Mary Margaret (Fugler) Hafter.
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Jerome Charles Hafter
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor summa cum laude, Rice U., 1967; Bachelor with first class honours, University of Oxford, England, 1969; Master of Arts, University of Oxford, England, 1976; Juris Doctor, Yale University, 1972.
Career
Law clerk to presiding judge, United States Court Appeals (5th circuit), Jackson, Mississippi, 1972-1973;
associate, Lake, Tindall, Hunger & Thackston (now Lake Tindall LLP), Greenville, Mississippi, 1973-1976;
partner, Lake, Tindall, Hunger & Thackston (now Lake Tindall LLP), Greenville, Mississippi, since 1976. Chairman Mississippi Board Bar Admissions, Jackson, since 1979. Secretary, treasurer Hafter Realty Inc., Greenville, 1969-1992, president, since 1992.
Member governor's constitution commission, Jackson, 1985-1987.
Achievements
Membership
President Downtown Improvement Association Greenville, since 1980, Common Cause/Mississippi, 1976-1978. Member Greenville City Election Commission, since 1978, Greenville Municipal School Board, since 1988. Chairman of Commission on tax Mississippi Economics Council, Jackson,1985, 87, 96-98, Medical Development Foundation, 1987-1988.
Served to First lieutenant, C.E., United States Army, 1972, major, United States Army Reserve, since 1972. Fellow Mississippi Bar Foundation. Member American Bar Association (vice Chairman of Commission on issues affecting legal profession, young lawyers division, 1980-1982), Mississippi Bar Association (board directors young lawyers division 1976-1979), Federal Bar Association (Vice-President northern Mississippi 1977-1978, 81-82), National Conference Bar Examiners (multi-state bar examinationcom. since 1986, MBE committee 1986-1988), American Judicature Society, Greenville C. ofC. (board directors 1976-1979, president 1992-1993), Washington County History Society (president Greenville chapter 1981), Miss, Bankruptcy Conference (Chairman of Commission on bankruptcy rules 1988), Phi Beta Kappa.
Connections
Married Jo Cille Dawkins, July 18, 1976. 1 child, Jerome Bryan.
