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University of Mississippi. University of Mississippi School of Law.
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Jim Herring
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From 1997 to 1999, he was a judge of the Mississippi Court of Appeals and from 2001 to 2008 the state chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party. In 1960, Herring received a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Mississippi at Oxford, where he joined Phi Delta Theta fraternity. In 1963, he obtained his Juris Doctor from the University of Mississippi School of Law.
Foreign another twenty-one years, he was an Army reservist, in which capacity he reached the rank of colonel.
A former prosecuting attorney for Madison County, Herring was elected as a Democrat in 1971 as the district attorney for the 20th Circuit District of Mississippi. On August 7, 1979, Herring ran for governor of Mississippi and polled 135,812 votes (184 percent) in the Democratic primary election.
The nomination went to William F. Winter, who defeated Evelyn Gandy, the lieutenant governor, who carried the backing of former United States. Senator James O. Eastland, in the runoff election. Winter then handily defeated Republican Gil Carmichael of Meridian in the general election in what became Carmichael"s second consecutive defeat for the state"s highest office.At some point after 1979, Herring defected to the Republican Party.
In 1996, Governor Kirk Fordice, the first Republican chief executive in his state since Reconstruction, appointed Herring to the Mississippi State Personnel Board.
In 1997, Fordice named him to the state Court of Appeals, in which a capacity, he participated in more than one thousand legal cases. Governor Haley Barbour named him a special judge of the Mississippi Supreme Court. United States. President George West. Bush appointed Herring to the trustees of the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation for a six-year term.
He was also vice chairman of the foundation board.
In 2012, he headed the transition team for incoming Republican Governor Philosophy Bryant. Herring considers himself an advocate of the Eleventh Commandment, promoted by former President Ronald West. Reagan.
Achievements
Politics
Through an appointment from the national party chairman, he has been the "Chairman of the Chairmen" of all state and territorial Republican Parties.
Membership
He served in the United States Army for three years of active duty as a member of the Judge Advocate General"s Corps. Herring has been a member of both the Executive and Rules Committees of the Republican National Committee. He is a board member of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy.
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