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Jake Howard is Senior Counsel at the Mississippi office of the MacArthur Justice Center. He is based in Cleveland, Mississippi and also works out of the Justice Center’s office in Jackson, Mississippi. He litigates a broad spectrum of civil rights and criminal cases at the trial, appellate, and post-conviction stages. He is admitted to practice in all Mississippi state and federal courts, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.
Jake was an E. Barrett Prettyman Fellow at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he received training in criminal trial advocacy and clinical teaching, represented clients charged with felonies and misdemeanors, and supervised student attorneys enrolled in the Criminal Defense & Prisoner Advocacy Clinic. Prior to the fellowship, he clerked for the Honorable Myron H. Thompson, United States District Court judge for the Middle District of Alabama.
Jake earned a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, and an LL.M. in Advocacy from the Georgetown University Law Center. While at Harvard, he was selected by the student body to receive the Gary Bellow Public Service Award in recognition of his commitment to social justice and public interest work. Prior to law school, he earned a master’s degree in teaching from the University of Washington, and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of Michigan. He worked as a social studies teacher at a public high school in Covington, Washington from 2003 to 2006.
Mailing Address:
MacArthur Justice Center
P.O. Box 1447
Cleveland, MS 38732