Leslie H. Southwick
| Leslie Southwick | |
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit | |
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Assumed office October 29, 2007 |
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| Appointed by | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Charles Pickering |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
February 10, 1950 Edinburg, Texas, U.S. |
| Education |
Rice University (BA) University of Texas, Austin (JD) |
Leslie H. Southwick (born February 10, 1950) is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and a former judge of the Mississippi Court of Appeals.
Born in Edinburg, Texas, Southwick graduated cum laude from Rice University in 1972 and received his juris doctor from The University of Texas School of Law in 1975. Following law school, Southwick clerked for the Presiding Judge, John F. Onion, Jr., of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals from 1975–1976, and then, in Mississippi, for Judge Charles Clark on the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals from 1976-1977.
Southwick was in private practice as an attorney in Jackson, Mississippi with the firm Brunini, Grantham, Grower & Hewes from 1977–1989, serving as a partner from 1983-1989. In 1989, Southwick entered government service as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice Civil Division. There he supervised the one hundred and twenty-five lawyers of the Federal Programs Branch, which defends suits brought against the United States. He also supervised the Office of Consumer Litigation, a twenty-five lawyer division charged with civil and criminal enforcement of federal consumer laws.
Southwick was elected one of the first ten judges of the Mississippi Court of Appeals in 1994. He remained on the court until the end of 2006 when, with a nomination to a lifetime position in the federal judiciary pending, he did not run for re-election. Southwick was on a leave of absence from the court from August 2004 to January 2006. In 2005, he served in Iraq as a Judge Advocate General with the 155th Brigade Combat Team of the Mississippi Army National Guard.
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