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"With the same hen?" And the guide said,
"No." He said, "Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge."
My association with Judge Russell goes back over 30 years, but my close professional relationship with him dates back a little over 25 years when he had the trust and the foresight, I hope, to appoint a young, still wet behind the ears, young lawyer, who had only come to this state four years earlier not knowing a single person, including any lawyers, and worst of all, not having finished at Ole Miss as the law school, as the first full-time US Magistrate Judge in the state. But I have always appreciated that trust that Judge Russell and the other two judges placed in me at that time. But the trust didn't stop there, and that's what I appreciate most about Judge Russell because when I was appointed I told him that I wanted to develop this position into one which would be a somewhat co-equal judgeship. That if they wanted a super law clerk, I had been there and done that and didn't want to do it anymore, but if they wanted an equal judge then that's what I was going to try to
JAMIE L. WETZEL, CSR - CIRCUIT COURT REPORTER