JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Four judges have started their terms on the 10-member Mississippi Court of Appeals.
Their eight-year terms started Tuesday.
The newest member of the court is Judge Latrice Westbrooks of Lexington, who unseated Judge Ceola James of Vicksburg in the November election.
Westbrooks was an assistant district attorney in Harrison, Hancock and Stone counties from 1997 until she entered private law practice in Jackson in 2000. She served as Durant city prosecutor and was public defender for 10 years in Holmes County. She was a Lexington city judge before being elected to the Court of Appeals.
Returning Judges Roger Ishee of Gulfport, Jim Greenlee of Oxford and Jack Wilson of Madison also started their new terms Tuesday.
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