Meade Mitchell, Life Fellow, was installed as the president of the Mississippi State Bar at the Mississippi Bar Annual Meeting on July 12. He previously served as Chair of The Mississippi Bar’s Summer School Committee; Chair of the Litigation Section; Chair of the Public Information, Bar Admissions Ceremony, and Local Affiliates Committees; and Director of the Young Lawyers Division.
The Mississippi Bar can be traced back as far as 1821, though its current iteration was founded in 1905. The bar is headquartered in Jackson, MS.
Mr. Mitchell currently works for Butler Snow, in their Ridgeland office, where his practice concentrates on product liability, pharmaceutical, toxic tort, environmental, and transportation litigation. In addition to being a Fellow of the ABF, he is also a Fellow of the Mississippi Bar Foundation and a Bencher of the American Inns of Court, Charles Clark Chapter. He is active in the American Bar Association’s Tort, Trial and Insurance Practice Section, where he serves as an officer and has served on multiple committees, and as vice-chair of the Toxic Tort and Environmental Law Committee.
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