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Robertson served as faculty member of the University of Mississippi where he served as editor of the 1950 Reveille and was elected Student
School of Law from 1977-1992 and at Fordham University as a Body President for 1951. After graduation, Simmons went on to serve
visiting professor in 1992. Robertson returned to private practice in in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War. After returning from
1993 with Wise, Carter, Child & Caraway in Jackson and worked the war, he earned a Juris Doctorate from the Jackson School of Law
there for 25 years. He published many scholarly articles over the (now Mississippi College School of Law) and was admitted to The
years, writing an entire volume on the Mississippi Constitution for Mississippi Bar in 1962. Simmons had a long career with IBM before
the Encyclopedia of Mississippi Law. Robertson was a life member of retiring in 1991. Since that time he provided pro bono law services to
the American Law Institute and he contributed to the Restatements friends and neighbors in his community.
of the Law. He was a Fellow of the Mississippi Bar, a Fellow of the PATRICIA DANIEL SIMS
American Bar Association, a member of the American Inns of Court, Patricia Daniel Sims, 73, of Oxford, died November 12, 2023. After
and a Board Member of both the Innocence Project New Orleans and earning an undergraduate degree, she earned a Juris Doctorate from
the Mississippi Innocence Project. the University of Mississippi School of Law and was admitted to The
J. SCOTT ROGERS Mississippi Bar in 1982. Sims was an Assistant District Attorney and
J. Scott Rogers, 54, of Jackson, died December 29, 2023. He earned former County Court Judge in Cleveland.
a Juris Doctorate from the Mississippi College School of Law and was FERR SMITH
admitted to The Mississippi Bar in 2000. Ferr Smith, 82, of Canton, died November 5, 2023. He earned
LYNN JOHNSON SEGARS an undergraduate degree from Mississippi Valley State University
Lynn Johnson Segars, 58, of Iuka, died October 6, 2023. She attended and taught history before going back to law school. Smith earned
Millsaps College and the University of Mississippi, earning a Juris a Juris Doctorate from the University of Mississippi School of Law
Doctorate from the UM School of Law. Segars was admitted to The and was admitted to The Mississippi Bar in 1973. He opened a law
Mississippi Bar in 1991. She was a solo practitioner and served as a practice, Blackmon-Smith Law Firm, with partner Ed Blackmon,
Guardian Ad Litem for abused and neglected children. and later established Ferr Smith & Associates. Smith was elected to
SAM SIMMONS the Mississippi House of Representatives and represented District 27
Sam Simmons, 92, of Florence, died October 26, 2023. He attended from 1994 to 2015. He is also a veteran of the U.S. Army.
Mississippi State College (now known as Mississippi State University),

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