STARKVILLE, Miss. - Former Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Reuben V. Anderson, the first African-American justice on the Mississippi Supreme Court, will keynote Mississippi State University’s 27th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Breakfast and Day of Service on Jan. 18. Anderson, a senior partner with Phelps Dunbar LLP, served on the Mississippi court from 1985-91. Prior to presiding on the Supreme Court, Anderson was a Circuit Court judge for Mississippi’s 7th Circuit Court District, County Court judge for Hinds County, and Municipal Court judge for the city of Jackson. He spent eight years as the Mississippi Associate Counsel for the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Anderson is an alumnus of Tougaloo College and the University of Mississippi School of Law. The event will be held virtually and will be broadcast at 8 a.m. on MSTV and livestreamed at www.mstv.msstate.edu, in addition to being made available on the MSU website. It will re-air on MSTV at 8 a.m., 11 a.m., 2 p.m., 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. Monday. (Source: MSU 01/13/20)
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