Michael S. Carr

Personal:    Michael Carr was born in Memphis, Tennessee, August 28, 1981. A 1999 graduate of Cleveland High School, Mike earned a B.A. in History and Spanish from Ole Miss and graduated magna cum laude in May 2003. While an undergraduate, Mike was a member of numerous honor societies including Phi Kappa Phi, National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society, Capitulo Delta Iota Spanish Honors Society, Golden Key, and Order of Omega. Mike was also a re-chartering member of the Alpha Upsilon chapter of Kappa Alpha Order and held several officer positions. In 2001, Mike traveled to Bejing, China on a grant through the Croft Center for International Studies to research ongoing developments in privatization. In 2002, Mike went to live with a local family in Valencia, Spain for a semester to study international business law.

   Mike entered the University of Mississippi School of Law in May 2003. During law school, Mike completed summer law programs at Downing College, Cambridge, as well as a Law at Sea Seminar through the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, traveling extensively through northern Europe and Russia. Mike is past president of the Gorove International Law Society and was a member of several Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition teams from Ole Miss. Mike also worked for Thompson-West Corporation, Professional Multistate Bar Review, as well as clerked for Griffith & Griffith. He graduated in two and a half years and has moved back to his hometown of Cleveland to begin practice in 2006.

   In 2009, Mike joined the Office of the District Attorney for the 11th Circuit Court District as a felony prosecutor. As an assistant district attorney, Mike tried more than twenty-five jury trials as lead counsel, including murders and other violent crimes, sex crimes, property crimes and drug cases.

   In October 2010, he rejoined Griffith and Griffith to specialize in state and local government defense litigation.

Profile:

• Admitted to bar, 2006, Mississippi
• Education: University of Mississippi, B.A. History/Spanish; University of Mississippi School of Law, Juris Doctor, 2005
• Member: Bolivar County Bar Association, American Bar Association (Section on State and Local Government Law, Young Lawyers Division), Fifth Circuit Bar Association, and Mississippi Bar Association (Government Law Section, Litigation and General Law Section); Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association; American Inns of Court; Bolivar County Law Library Committee
• Appointed to Criminal Justice Act Panel, Northern District of Mississippi, 2008
• Firearms Certified – Mississippi Attorney General’s Office – April 2010