Roy Percy is a federal magistrate judge in Oxford, Mississippi, where he handles civil and criminal matters in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi. Before taking the bench in 2016, Judge Percy practiced law in Oxford for 15 years, first in a small firm and then as a sole practitioner. He practiced in state and federal courts at the trial and appellate levels in civil and criminal cases, including as a member of the Northern District of Mississippi’s CJA Panel representing indigent defendants charged with federal crimes. He also served on the Local Civil Rules Advisory Committee for the Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi. Judge Percy has been an adjunct professor at the University of Mississippi School of law since 2012.
Judge Percy obtained his undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia and his law degree at the University of Mississippi School of Law, after which he served a term as a judicial law clerk at the Mississippi Supreme Court.
Education
B.A., University of Virginia
J.D., University of Mississippi School of Law
