James A. Peden Jr.

Environmental, Mediation
1817 Crane Ridge Drive, Suite 200, P.O. Box 13308
Jackson, Mississippi 392363308


Environmental

Admitted

1970, Mississippi

Law School

University of Mississippi, J.D., 1970

Law School Graduation Year

1970

College

University of Mississippi, B.A., summa cum laude, 1966; University of Bristol, Bristol, England

Memberships

Hinds County and American (Fellow of Young Lawyers Division) Bar Associations; Mississippi Bar (Second Vice President, 1979-1980; Chairman, Committee on Continuing Legal Education, 1980-1982; Member, Board of Commissioners, 1982-1983; President, 1978-1979, Young Lawyers Section; President, 1989-1990; Fellows of Young Lawyers of Mississippi State Bar). Fellow, Mississippi Bar Foundation.

Biographical

Phi Delta Phi; Omicron Delta Kappa; Phi Kappa Phi. Fulbright Scholar, 1966-1967. Comment Editor and Special Projects Editor, Mississippi Law Journal, 1970. Author: A Dilemma for Banks: Disclosure of Customer Records in Legal Proceedings, 4 Miss. Coll. L. Rev. 1, 1985; Within a Delicate Jurisdiction: The Rights of Parties Before Zoning Authorities, 41 Miss. L. J. 271, 1970; The Governmental-Proprietary Distinction and Municipal Tort Immunity Begin to Fall in Mississippi, 41 Miss. L. J. 471, 1970. Staff Assistant: U.S. Senator John Stennis of Mississippi, 1965; Lieutenant Governor William Winter, 1972-1975. Services Officer, Mississippi State Senate, 1972-1975. Member, Governor's Judicial Nominating Committee, 1980-1982. Mississippi Law Institute Committee, 1974-1979; Chairman, 1979.

Military

Colonel, JAG, Mississippi Air National Guard, 1972-1999; Air War College, 1982