MS HC72

Commends Judge Tomie Turner Green for nearly 23 years of service as an attorney and judge, beginning her legal career in 1999.

Recognizes her judicial achievements including becoming the first woman elected to the Hinds County Circuit bench in 1999 and the first African American and first woman to serve as Senior Circuit Court Judge of the Seventh Circuit Court District.

Highlights her legislative accomplishments as a Mississippi House member from 1992-1999, including authoring laws that created the Administrative Office of the Court, Mississippi Court of Appeals, and Mississippi Torts Claim Board.

Details her modernization initiatives as senior judge, including implementing computer-integrated courtroom technology, online electronic filing, video arraignment capabilities, and pioneering televised court proceedings in Mississippi beginning in 2003.

Extends warmest wishes for her future endeavors and directs that copies be provided to Judge Green and the Capitol Press Corps.