Tom Stewart Lee

Tom Stewart Lee
Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi
Incumbent
Assumed office April 8, 2006
Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi
In office 1996–2003
Preceded by	William H. Barbour Jr.
Succeeded by	Henry Travillion Wingate
Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi
In office June 11, 1984 – April 8, 2006
Appointed by	Ronald Reagan
Preceded by	Dan Monroe Russell Jr.
Succeeded by	Daniel P. Jordan III
Personal details
Born	Tom Stewart Lee (1941-04-08) April 8, 1941 Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.
Education	Mississippi College (BA) University of Mississippi (JD)

Tom Stewart Lee (born April 8, 1941) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi.

Education and career

Lee was born in Jackson, Michigan. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mississippi College in 1963 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Mississippi Law School in 1965. He was in the United States Army Reserve Captain, JAG Corps from 1965 to 1973. He was in private practice in Forest, Mississippi from 1965 to 1984. He was a prosecuting attorney of Scott County, Mississippi from 1968 to 1971. He was a judge of the Scott County Youth Court in Forest, Mississippi from 1979 to 1982. He was a municipal judge for the city of Forest, Mississippi in 1982.

Federal judicial service

Lee was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on May 15, 1984, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi vacated by Judge Dan Monroe Russell Jr. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 11, 1984, and received his commission the same day. He served as chief judge from 1996 to 2003. He assumed senior status on April 8, 2006.

Sources

• Tom Stewart Lee at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.