Press Release
For Immediate Release
Former
Chancellor Ceola James
Joins
Race for Mississippi’s Central District
Supreme
Court Post
Judge Ceola
James
Vicksburg
---- former Ninth District
Chancellor Ceola James has qualified as a candidate for the Mississippi
State Supreme Court Central District,
Position 2. She ran for the same post when it was declared vacant
after the retirement of former Justice Fred Banks in December 2003. “If elected,” James said in her formal announcement
Monday, “I will bring to the bench strong analytical skills along with the
desire to be fair to all people regardless of their station in life. “I appreciate the opportunities that I have had to
serve the people. And I am asking the voters to consider voting for me in the general eledtion on November 2, 2004. “ James was blocked from vying for the vacant seat,
however, after former circuit judge James e. Graves, Jr., was appointed to
the post by former Gov. Ronnie Musgrove. Graves’ initial one-year
appointment was extended to three and thereby negated a special election
set for November 2003. James points out that no former Chancery judges
currently serves on the Mississippi Supreme Court. “I served as Ninth District Chancery Judge from January
1999 through December 2002.” she says. “I was seated in Greenville. And
this district included six counties: Warren, Sharkey, Issaquena, Humphreys,
Washington and Sunflower Counties.” James has held a number of judgeships at different
levels of the judicial system. Appointed in 1997 as interim Justice Court
Judge in Warren County, she also served, upon special appointment, as City
Judge in Port Gibson in 2003. “I
was appointed by the Mississippi Supreme Court in 2003 to serve as
a Special chancery judge in forrest
County. I had a similar appointment as special chancery judge in Rankin
County before then.” ----More---