Judge Gibbs, Judge Perkins, AOC Director Surkin named as Fellows of the Mississippi Bar Foundation

By Beverly Pettigrew Kraft

Circuit Judge Debra Gibbs of Jackson, Chancellor Willie J. Perkins Sr. of Greenwood and Administrative Office of Courts Director Katharine Surkin of Madison were among recent inductees as Fellows of the Mississippi Bar Foundation.

Twenty lawyers representing the highest level of professionalism and competence are inducted as Fellows of the Bar Foundation each year. Others inducted as Fellows at the Bar Foundation dinner on July 9 are U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert P. Myers Jr. of Gulfport, Michael J. Bentley of Jackson, Jay P. Carmean of Oxford, Assistant District Attorney Mary Ann Connell of Oxford, J. Matthew Eichelberger of Jackson, Lauren R. Hillery of Gulfport, former Mississippi Bar General Counsel Adam B. Kilgore of Jackson, Charles M. Merkel III of Clarks