Kelsey Dismukes has been elected as Editor-in-Chief of Volume 88 of the Mississippi Law Journal. She is a native of Starkville and is the daughter of Hurston A. and Debra S. Nicholas.
Dismukes is a second-year law student at the University of Mississippi School of Law and is a member of the law school’s Negotiation Board. She received her bachelor’s degree in Forestry from Mississippi State University.
After her first year of law school, Dismukes worked as a summer associate at Balch & Bingham in Gulfport, Mississippi and Forman Watkins & Krutz in Jackson, Mississippi. Additionally, she has served as a judicial intern to United States District Judge Michael P. Mills in Oxford, Mississippi.
This summer, she will be working as a summer associate at Bass Berry & Sims in Memphis, Tennessee.