Brooks Payne – President
Brooks Payne is a third-year law student and serves as the President of the Student Bar Association for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Brooks is a native of Enterprise, AL. While in law school, Brooks has served as President of the Mississippi Family Law Society and Business Manager of the Advocate Yearbook. Additionally, Brooks served as a 1L and 2L Senator on SBA. He attended The University of Alabama, where he served as President of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity and Student Government Association Vice President of External Affairs and Senator.
During the summer of 2023, Brooks worked as a Summer Associate at Marsh & Cotter, LLP in Enterprise, AL. He also was able to work as a Summer Intern at the 12th Circuit District Attorney’s Office. In 2024, Brooks returned to the same offices for work. He plans to graduate in May of 2025.
Madeline Crane -Vice President
Madeline Crane is a third-year law student and serves as the Vice President of the Student Bar Association for 2024-2025.
Madeline is also an Associate Articles Editor for the Mississippi Law Journal, the Online Managing Editor for the Mississippi Sports Law Review, a member of the Transactional Law Clinic, and a Research Assistant to Dean Emeritus Samuel M. Davis. She has previously held roles in the Student Bar Association as the Director of Events in 2023, and a 1L Senator in 2022. Madeline has previously served as the Vice President of the Law Association for Women, and is a member of the Phi Delta Phi Legal Honor Society, Intellectual Property Law Society, the Business Law Network, and the Entertainment and Sports Law Society, among others.
Madeline received her Bachelors degree in Law and Legal Studies from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, where she was a member of the Carleton Law Society and a founding member of the Womens Legal Network.
In the summer of 2023, Madeline continued her studies at Downing College, Cambridge University, UK. In 2024, she worked as a Summer Associate at Tannehill Carmean PLLC in Oxford, Mississippi, and is excited to continue her role with the firm in the upcoming school year. Madeline expects to graduate in May of 2025.
Isabella Escobedo Lane – Secretary
Isabella Escobedo Lane is a third-year law student and serves as the Secretary of the Student Bar Association for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Isabella is from Grenada, Mississippi. She studied history at Delta State University, where she graduated summa cum laude and was awarded the Jack Gunn award as the top University scholar.
Isabella is currently an Executive Articles Editor for the Mississippi Law Journal and previously served as a Staff Editor. She also most recently served as a Teaching Assistant for Professor Khan’s Constitutional Law I section. While in law school, Isabella has been involved in several student organizations, including the Student Advocacy Corps of the Student Bar Association, as Secretary and Treasurer of the Latin Law Student Association, as Director of Development for the Government Law Student Association, and as Historian for Phi Delta Phi legal honor society.
During the Summer of 2023 and the 2023-24 school year, Isabella clerked for Gore, Kilpatrick & Dambrino, PLLC, in Grenada, Mississippi, where she worked on government advising, bankruptcy, public insurance defense, real estate, probate, and family law. During the Spring of 2024, Isabella participated in the MacArthur Justice Clinic where she assisted clients in 42 U.S.C. § 1983 litigation and completed policy research regarding Mississippi’s criminal legal system. Isabella served as Mississippi’s Janet D. Steiger Fellow in the Consumer Protection and Antitrust Division in the office of the Attorney General of Mississippi for the summer of 2024 and will continue to work for the Division throughout the school year. Isabella plans to graduate in May 2025 and practice law in Mississippi.
Hayward Gordon – Treasurer
Hayward Gordon is a third-year law student and serves as Treasurer of the Student Bar Association for the 2024-2025 academic year. Albert, a native of Augusta, Ga, graduated from Savannah State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Homeland Security and Emergency Management in 2015. 
From 2016 to 2020, Hayward was a Supply/ Safety Officer in the United States Marine Corps aboard Marine Installation Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, CA. Hayward also worked as an Employee Safety Officer for Howard University Hospital from 2020 to 2022. During his 2L year at Ole Miss Law, Albert served as a staff editor on Volume 93 of the Mississippi Law Journal. He will serve as the conduct Coordinator for Volume 94. Additionally, Albert held the role of National Financial Specialist for the National Black Law Students Association and the fundraising co-chair for the Ole Miss chapter of the Black Law Students Association.
Hayward has accepted an offer for publication with the Mississippi Law Journal for his comment, The Affirmative Action Battlefield: The Legal Ramifications and Implications for our Service Academies and Minority Communities After Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard. During the Summer of 2023, Hayward served as the legal student trainee for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Memphis, TN. He worked on matters related to government takings, real estate, freedom of Information Act requests, and contract disputes. In 2024 Hayward participated in the Sword to Plowshares study abroad program, where he attended and participated in conferences and discussions centered around international non-proliferation laws. After graduating, Hayward plans to seek a government law career as well as serve as a JAG in the United States Army. Hayward expects to graduate in the spring of 2025.
Ethan Barnes – Attorney General
Ethan is a third year law student who serves as the SBA Attorney General. 
He is also the Vice chair of External competitions for the UM Trial Advocacy Board.
Ethan was born in Texas but grew up partially in Anchorage Alaska. He graduated from the university of Texas at San Antonio with a Bachelors Degree in “Politics and Law”
In the summer of 2023, Ethan worked as an Equal Justice Rural Summer Legal Corps fellow, practicing Tax law with the North Mississippi Tax Assistance Project. 2L summer, Ethan honed his litigation skills as a student attorney for the 10th Judicial District of Colorado, where he ran his own docket, taking 8 criminal cases to Trial.
Sydnei Bailey – Social Chair
Sydnei Bailey is a third-year law student and serves as the Social Chair for the Student Bar Association for the 2024-2025 academic year. Sydnei is from Thomaston, Georgia and graduated from the University of Georgia with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Journalism.
Sydnei serves as an Associate Articles Editor for the Mississippi Law Journal and is an active member of The Advocate.