Mississippi Chancery Courts are courts of equity. They also have jurisdiction over family law, sanity hearings, wills, and constitutional law. In counties with no County Court, they have jurisdiction over juveniles. Typically, trials are heard without a jury, but juries are permitted. There are 20 districts.
Elections Judges in Mississippi Chancery Courts are elected every four years in a nonpartisan election. Judges are required to have five years of experience as a practicing attorney, to be at least 26 years old, to have lived in Mississippi for at least five years, and to live within the court's district.
Districts Mississippi Chancery Courts are divided into the following 20 districts.
District Counties covered 1st Alcorn, Itawamba, Monroe, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Lee, Tishomingo, Union 2nd Jasper, Newton, Scott 3rd Desoto, Grenada, Montgomery, Panola, Tate, Yalobusha 4th Amite, Franklin, Pike, Walthall 5th Hinds 6th Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Kemper, Neshoba, Winston 7th Bolivar, Coahoma, Leflore, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Tunica 8th Hancock, Harrison, Stone 9th Humphreys, Issaquena, Sharkey, Sunflower, Warren, Washington 10th Forrest, Lamar, Marion, Pearl River, Perry 11th Holmes, Leake, Madison, Yazoo 12th Clarke, Lauderdale 13th Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Simpson, Smith 14th Chickasaw, Clay, Lowndes, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Webster 15th Copiah, Lincoln 16th George, Greene, Jackson 17th Adams, Claiborne, Jefferson, Wilkinson 18th Benton, Calhoun, Lafayette, Marshall, Tippah 19th Jones, Wayne 20th Rankin
See also Courts of Mississippi The Summons, a novel about a Chancery Court judge
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