Jim Kitchens | |
Office: | Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi |
Term Start: | January 2009 |
Office2: | District Attorney for Copiah, Lincoln, Pike, and Walthall Counties, Mississippi |
Birth Date: | 29 April 1943 |
Education: | University of Southern Mississippi (BS) University of Mississippi School of Law (JD) |
James "Jim" W. Kitchens (born April 29, 1943) is a justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in Place 3. He began his first, eight-year term in January 2009 and was re-elected in 2016.[1] He was formerly elected the district attorney for the Mississippi counties of Copiah, Lincoln, Pike, and Walthall.[2] Kitchens graduated from Crystal Springs High School in 1961, then earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1964, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1967."[3] Kitchens is currently running for a third term on the Mississippi Supreme Court.[4]