Judge Cory T. Wilson

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Circuit Judge
(United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit)

Entered Office: 07-03-2020

General Information

Birthdate: 1970


Personal Information

Bachelor of Business Administration, graduating summa cum laude, from the University of Mississippi and his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School, where he served on the Yale Law Journal.[3]

Wilson served as a law clerk to Judge Emmett Ripley Cox of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He also served as a White House Fellow in the Department of Defense as a Special Assistant to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld from 2005 to 2006. Prior to his elected service, Wilson served as Senior Advisor and Counsel in the Mississippi State Treasurer's Office and as Deputy Secretary of State in the Mississippi Secretary of State's Office.[3]

Wilson has been an intermittent member of the Federalist Society, including while at Yale Law School from 1992 to 1995, and then joining the Mississippi chapter from 1996 to 2005 and again since 2019.[4]

Contact and Phone Numbers

501 East Court Street, Suite 5.350
Jacksonville, MS 39201-5037
(601) 608-4790