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Lauren Webb Carr
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Lauren Webb Carr was born in Belleville, Illinois on May 3, 1980. In 2002, Lauren graduated from The University of Mississippi and McDonnell-Barksdale Honors College magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts and double majors in political science and English. Lauren was active in numerous honors societies including academic and leadership honoraries, Phi Kappa Phi, Delta Kappa, and Sigma Tau Delta. Lauren was a Student Ambassador and Peer Educator and also served on the Honors Senate, Associated Student Body Cabinet, and as vice president of Golden Key International Honors Society. She was an officer for Alpha Omicron Pi sorority. Lauren received the SBC Communications and Memory Memorial Scholarships for leadership, academics, and community service as well as the John Waddell Scholarship at The University of Mississippi.
In 2005, Lauren received her Juris Doctor from The University of Mississippi School of Law. Lauren also completed summer law programs focusing on international and comparative law at Downing College, Cambridge and The University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu. While in law school, Lauren served as judicial clerk to Chancellor Edwin H. Roberts, Eighteenth Chancery Court District, Mississippi and as a research intern for the National Center for Justice and Rule of Law in Oxford, Mississippi. As a first year student, Lauren was the recipient of the Richard F. Morthland, Jr. Memorial Scholarship. She served on the UM Law Honor Council and was a member of the Legal Society for Women, Public Interest Law Foundation, Gorove International Law Society, Phi Alpha Delta International Law Fraternity, and worked as a Thomson-West student representative.
Lauren also participated in UM Law’s Civil Legal Clinic Program and participated in the representation of refugees by preparing and submitting an appellate brief to the Board of Immigration Appeals as part of the C.L.I.N.I.C pro bono program. In 2005, Lauren was first place winner of the quarterly and annual writing competition sponsored by Phi Alpha Delta, thereby earning publication in the Phi Alpha Delta Reporter.
Following law school, Lauren interned with Abogados Oses, a law firm in Barcelona, Spain. Lauren has also worked as a staff attorney for North Mississippi Rural Legal Services and as partner of Webb & Franklin, PLLC, a consumer bankruptcy practice in north Mississippi. Lauren served as chair of the Child Advocacy Committee of the Young Lawyers Division of the Mississippi Bar from 2006-2009 and is an active member of the YLD. In 2006, Lauren became certified by the National Association for Trial Advocacy. She is a member of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys and the Mississippi Bankruptcy Conference. Lauren served as adjunct professor of Constitutional law with special emphasis on civil liberties within the Division of Social Sciences, Delta State University, in Cleveland, Mississippi. Lauren is an associate at Griffith & Griffith, Attorneys in Cleveland, Mississippi where she resides with her husband and fellow attorney, Michael Carr.
Profile:
- Admitted to Bar, 2006, Mississippi
- Education: The University of Mississippi, B.A. English and Political Science
(magna cum laude) 2002;
The University of Mississippi School of Law, 2005.
- Member: Bolivar County Bar Association, American Bar Association,
Mississippi Bar Association;
Committee Chair, Young Lawyers Division, 2006-2009
- Languages: Spanish
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