
Jody E. Owens II, Hinds County’s district attorney, announced his bid for reelection on Friday. He was accompanied by his wife Dr. Michelle Owens and their children, when filing the qualifications paperwork, according to a Hinds County press release.
Owens, a Mississippi native served as a legal intern for the United States Senate Appropriations Committee for the late Senator Thad Cochran and as the Chief Policy Counsel and Managing Attorney of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Mississippi Office, where he led efforts to reform the state’s criminal justice, education, and mental health…