Judge Odom is a Chancellor for the Twentieth Chancery District, Place 2 (Rankin County, Mississippi), where he presides over domestic relations, probate, real property, and other equity jurisdiction proceedings. In 2021, he chaired the Legislative Domestic Relations Task Force, and has served on the 2019 committee to study automatic restraining orders and 2023 committee to study delays in termination of parental rights and adoption.
Prior to his election to the bench in 2018, Odom practiced law with the firm of Blair & Bondurant, P.A., in Jackson, Mississippi, where he handled real property, estate, and general litigation matters, with an emphasis in oil and gas law. While in private practice, Odom served his profession through leadership roles, including Chair of the MS Bar Association’s Professionalism Committee, President of the Rankin County Bar Association, Director for the Capital Area Bar Association, and President of the MS Oil and Gas Lawyers Association.
Odom graduated cum laude from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 2002. While at Ole Miss Law School, he served as Executive Articles Editor of the Mississippi Law Journal. He received his undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1998.
Published works include:
- Mississippi Oil and Gas Law Survey, 4 Texas A&M J. Prop. Law 53 (2018) (co-written with Justin Michael Sumrall)
- Public Policy Should Trump Forfeiture in Absence of Prejudice, 85 Miss. L.J. 1611 (2017) (co-written with Robert Louis Perkins)
- Mississippi Oil and Gas Law Survey, 3 Texas A&M J. Prop. Law 49 (2017) (co-written with Justin Michael Sumrall)
- Mississippi Oil and Gas Law Survey, 2 Texas A&M L. Rev. 145 (2015)
- Of Lignite Mining and the Rights of Surface Owners: A People’s Response to the Advantages of Title Certainty, 30 Miss. C. L. Rev. 473 (2012)
- Who Owns the Hole?: Abandoned Wellbores Belong to the Mineral Owner, 55 Landman 49 (May/June 2010) (co-written with William F. Blair)
- Drilling in the City: Local Police Powers v. State Oil and Gas Regulation, 52 Landman 33 (Winter 2007) (co-written with Si Bondurant)
- Do We Really Want to Roll the Dice?: Nixing the Effort to Raise Mississippi’s Gaming Revenue Tax, 6 Gaming L. Rev. 213 (2002)
