PHILADELPHIA, Miss.–A special election to replace Chancery Judge Joseph Kilgore has been set by Gov. Tate Reeves.
The special election will be Nov. 4, with a qualifying deadline of Feb. 3.
Kilgore is one of two chancellors who serve the Sixth Chancery District for Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Kemper, Neshoba and Winston counties. He was appointed 14 years ago by Gov. Haley Barbour and has since been elected to the position four times, all without opposition.
Kilgore announced this summer that he would leave the bench for private practice.
Kilgore is responsible for forming the Youth Intervention Court, a.k.a, the drug court, for the district.
The Chancery Court hears cases in equity disputes, sanity hearings, wills, adoptions, custody disputes, divorces, guardianships, and hears all cases in which a state law or set of state laws are constitutionally challenged, according to state law.
