Patsy Brumfield wrote an excellent article about retiring U.S. Magistrate Judge Jerry Davis that ran in Saturday’s Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal. Here is a link to the article.
The article provides a biographical profile on Judge Davis. Regarding his Magistrate position, the article states:
He describes the career he’s about to leave as “the best job in the federal judiciary,” so long as you’re in north Mississippi.By that, he means that magistrate judges here aren’t treated like the “B Team” as may be the practice in some other districts. Here, they have broad powers and preside over all types of cases in tandem with a district judge.
“They want us to do as much as we can,” he said of the district’s judges, Mills, Sharion Aycock and W. Allen Pepper, along with senior judges, Neal Biggers and Glen Davidson.
