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Justice Jess H. Dickinson was born in Charleston, Mississippi, in 1947. After graduation from East Tallahatchie High School in 1965, he attended Mississippi State University, receiving his Bachelor of Science degree in 1978. He received his Juris Doctor cum laude from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1982, where he served on the editorial board of the Mississippi Law Journal. After practicing law for one year in Jackson, and 20 years in Gulfport, Justice Dickinson served as a Forrest Circuit Court Judge, by special appointment of the Mississippi Supreme Court. His eight year term on the Supreme Court began in January, 2004. His first year on the Court, Justice Dickinson was awarded the Chief Justice Award for his work in advancing the administration of justice, and he has been appointed to the Supreme Court's Rules Committee for each of the past three years. Justice Dickinson has served on the adjunct faculty of William Carey College and the Mississippi College School of Law, and he served two terms on both the Ethics Committee and the Professionalism Committee of the Mississippi Bar. He has also served for the past three years as the Supreme Court's liaison to organizations providing legal services to the poor, and is a charter member of the Mississippi Access to Justice Commission. | 