Halil Suleyman "Sul" Ozerden (born December 5, 1966) is the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi and a former nominee to be a circuit judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Halil Suleyman Ozerden
Mississippi Southern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi
Born 1966 in Hattiesburg, MS
FJC ID: 3145
Career output and lasting influence
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 2/year
Mississippi Southern District Court · 2007–
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Private practice, Gulfport, Mississippi1999–2007
Law clerk , Hon. Eldon E. Fallon · 1998–1999
U.S. Navy lieutenant1989–1995
Appointments
2007–present · Appointed by George W. Bush (Republican)
Education
J.D. · 1998- Georgetown UniversityB.S. · 1989