Three Law Alums Selected to UM 40 Under 40 Class

2026 40 under 40, UM Law Alums, followed by portraits of Lusk, JD 20, Pracht, JD 21, and Seanor, JD 14

Recipients will be recognized Friday, March 27 by the Ole Miss Alumni Association

Three University of Mississippi School of Law alums have been named to the Ole Miss Alumni Association’s 40 Under 40 Class for 2026.

Glenna Lusk (JD 20), Caleb Pracht (JD 21) and Christina M. Seanor are the law grads recognized in this year’s class. The program celebrates the personal, professional and philanthropic achievements of successful UM graduates under the age of 40. Recipients will be recognized with a ceremony on March 27.

Lusk serves as the Lead Attorney for the Cyber Analysis Division at the Department of Defense in Washington, D.C. She provides legal counsel on complex issues at the intersection of intelligence, technology, and international law—advising on cyber operations, emerging technologies, and global information-sharing frameworks.portrait of Glenna Lusk

A three-time graduate of the University of Mississippi, Lusk earned her Bachelor of Business Administration with a double minor in Management information Systems and Intelligence and Security Studies (2015), Master of Criminal Justice in Homeland Security and Emergency Management (2017), and Juris Doctor with an Air and Space Law concentration (2020). While at Ole Miss, she was inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi and Alpha Phi Sigma honors societies, earned the Celebration of Achievement Award and Ole Miss Who’s Who recognition twice, and received the Department of Legal Studies Outstanding Criminal Justice Graduate Student award.

Before her current role, she served in the Federal Honors Attorney Program, where she became one of the most decorated honors attorneys in the program’s history, receiving seven awards. She has since earned three additional national security awards for her continued excellence in the Cyber Division.

Beyond her government service, Lusk volunteers with the Junior League of Washington and local nonprofits supporting women and families in need. Her career reflects a lifelong commitment to public service, legal integrity, and advancing national security through ethical and innovative counsel.

Pracht is the Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Mississippi Department of Mental Health. In this role, he brings structure, clarity, and momentum to high-priority statewide behavioral health initiatives while managing interagency relationships, coordinating with key stakeholders, and providing operational support to the Executive Director. Pracht also serves as a policy advisor and legislative liaison for the Department, passionately advocating for innovative and impactful mental health policy in the Mississippi Legislature.portrait of Caleb Pracht

Previously, Pracht served as a Policy Attorney with the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office and as a Legislative Attorney with the Mississippi Senate. Pracht is a 2018 graduate of the University of Mississippi and a 2021 graduate of the University of Mississippi School of Law. He and his wife, Dr. Mikayla Pracht, live in Gluckstadt with their two children, Madelyn (3) and Henry (1).

After receiving her B.A. in History and Public Policy Leadership from the University of Mississippi in 2011 and her J.D. from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 2014, Seanor began practicing law in Jackson, Mississippi. She is now Senior Counsel in the Jackson office of Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP, where she represents businesses in complex, high-stakes litigation across the Southeast.

Seanor is passionate about providing pro bono service to those in need and especially enjoys her work with the Mississippi Volunteer Lawyers Project’s Settlement Assistance Program, through which she represents pro se litigants at settlement conferences in civil cases in the Southern District Court of Mississippi. To date she’s helped indigent litigants recover more than $80,000.portrait of Christina M. Seanor

Seanor was elected and currently serves as President-Elect of the Young Lawyers Division of the Mississippi Bar. She will be sworn in as President of the YLD in July 2026, and will then serve one year as Past-President. In these roles, she serves as a Commissioner on the Mississippi Board of Bar Commissioners and represents the organization nationally as a delegate to the ABA YLD. She has more than a decade of leadership and service to her state and local bar organizations. In recognition of which she received Jackson Young Lawyer’s Outstanding Service Award for 2016-2017 and the Mississippi Bar YLD’s 2019 Outstanding Young Lawyer Award.

 Seanor lives in Fondren with her husband Dustin (JD 11), daughter Annie, and son Teddy.

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Christina Steube

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March 27, 2026

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