Tom Stewart Lee (born April 8, 1941) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi.
Tom Stewart Lee
Mississippi Southern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi
Born 1941 in Jackson, MI
FJC ID: 1369
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 8/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 32/year
Mississippi Southern District Court · 1984–2006
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, Forest, Mississippi1965–1984
- Scott County [Mississippi] Youth CourtJudge · 1979–1982
- Forest [Mississippi] Municipal CourtJudge · 1982
JAG CorpsU.S. Army Reserve captain · 1965–1973- Scott County, MississippiProsecutor · 1968–1971
Appointments
1984–2006 · Appointed by Ronald Reagan (Republican)
Education
J.D. · 1965- Mississippi CollegeB.A. · 1963