Jurists and Lawyers
- Rhesa H. Barksdale (born 1944), federal judge (Jackson)
- Neal Brooks Biggers Jr. (born 1935), federal judge (Corinth)
- William Joel Blass (born 1917), attorney, (Wiggins/Gulfport)
- Gerald Chatham (1906–1956), lawyer, lead prosecutor in the Emmett Till case, (Hernando)
- Bobby DeLaughter (born 1954), prosecutor, judge (Jackson)
- Jess H. Dickinson (born 1947), associate justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi, (Charleston)
- Boyce Holleman (1924–2003), attorney, (Wiggins/Gulfport)
- Frank Hunger (born 1936), assistant U.S. attorney general, (Greenville)
- E. Grady Jolly (born 1937), judge of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, (Louisville)
- Charles W. Pickering (born 1937), federal judge, (Jones County)
- Thomas Rodney (1744–1811), federal judge, (Natchez)
- Richard "Dickie" Scruggs (born 1946), attorney, (Pascagoula)
- Michael B. Thornton (born 1954), judge, U.S. Tax Court
- Michael Wallace (born 1951), lawyer, (Biloxi)
- James R. Williams (born 1936), lawyer and jurist, (Columbus)
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