Jack Wilson

Jack L. Wilson is a Judge of the Mississippi Court of Appeals.

Biography and career

Wilson graduated from the University of Mississippi with a Bachelor of Accountancy degree and then earned his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 2004.

After law school, he served as a law clerk to Judge Gerald Bard Tjoflat of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and worked at Mayer Brown in Washington, D.C. From 2009 to 2012, Wilson worked at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings. He also was an adjunct at the Mississippi College School of Law.

Wilson served as deputy general counsel to Governor of Mississippi Phil Bryant from 2012 to 2013, and then was co-chief counsel from 2013 to 2014. He then returned to Bradley Arant Boult Cummings as a counsel in the Jackson office, where he continued to work until receiving his judicial appointment.