Mississippi Judicial Performance v. Judge Gay Polk-Payton | IFS

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• JUDGE GAY POLK PAYTON
• GAY POLK-PAYTON
• AMIC BRIEF: MISSISSIPPI COMMISSN ON JUDICIAL PERFORMANCE V. JUDGE GAY POLK-PAYTON
• JARED POLIS MAK HISTORY AS AMERI'S FIRST ELECTED OPENLY GAY MALE GOVERNOR

JUDGE GAY POLK PAYTON

District 3 – Judge Gay Polk-Payton.

It also said he jailed participants for unspecified vlatns or failure to ply wh dg 2017, the state Supreme Court spend Lee County Jtice Court Judge John Sheffield for 120 days whout pay for orrg a man to serve six months a work center for a 17-year-old se that had been rolved another se 2017, however, the urt led favor of Forrt County Jtice Court Judge Gay Polk-Payton. Gay Polk-Payton liv Hattiburg, Mississippi. Gay is Commissner for the 12th Judicial District wh the Mississippi Bar Associatn and a member of Magnolia and Amerin Bar Associatns, a member of the Trial Lawyers Associatn, the Mississippi Jtice Court Judge Associatn, the Hattiburg Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta, a Hall of Fame member wh the Univeristy of Mississippi's Black Law Stunts' Associatn, a member of the Council on Legal Edutn Opportuny's Judg Hall of fame, a VIP Hall of Fame member of the Natnal Associatn of Profsnal Women and a member and past print of the South Central Mississippi Bar Associatn.

GAY POLK-PAYTON

She is the thor of a book tled, "This Has Been A Public Service Announcement" and the host of an ter rad show tled, "Gay's PSA. Runng agast Helich is Hattiburg attorney and Jtice Court judge Gay Polk-Payton. After an afternoon of hearg oral arguments Tuday, the Mississippi Supreme Court led Thursday favor of a Forrt County judge acced of uhil Mississippi Commissn on Judicial Performance acced Jtice Court Judge Gay Polk-Payton of g her posn as a judge to promote sal of her book and to further her mic uld not be reached for ment Thursday, but her attorney Oliver Diaz said the plat was ivolo and should never have been filed.

"The Court fds that no vlatn of the Mississippi Co of Judicial Conduct by the rponnt, Forrt County Jtice Court Judge Gay Polk-Payton has been proven by clear and nvcg evince, and that the proceedgs therefore should be, and they hereby are, dismissed wh prejudice, " the urt Tuday the missn's senr attorney Rachel Michel said an anonymo tip was filed regardg Polk-Payton and a photo of her eher puttg on or takg off her judge's robe on the ver of her book. Colorado Congrsman Jared Polis ma history Tuday night by beg the first openly gay man to be elected ernor of a U. ” Mary Parker, print and CEO of the Victory Fund, a natnwi anizatn that supports LGBTQ ndidat, told the Denver Post of Polis’ victory: “The fact that the state of Colorado, 25 years, has gone om beg dubbed the ‘Hate State’ to a place that n elect someone who is not jt openly gay, but publicly gay, that’s historic.

AMIC BRIEF: MISSISSIPPI COMMISSN ON JUDICIAL PERFORMANCE V. JUDGE GAY POLK-PAYTON

Jtice who said he never met a homosexual…. Told lleagu 1986 that he had never met a homosexual, though one of his clerks that term was gay.

In fact, Powell was the jtice most likely to hire gay clerks at the time, acrdg to a book published 2001 that chronicled gay rights s at the urt. For six nsecutive terms the 1980s, at least one of Powell’s law clerks was gay, acrdg to the thors, Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price.

The New York Tim reported on that fdg and spoke to two gay men who clerked for Powell between 1984 and 1986.

JARED POLIS MAK HISTORY AS AMERI'S FIRST ELECTED OPENLY GAY MALE GOVERNOR

Powell had met his boyiend, Chnis said, and had asked him about the mechanics of gay sex. Chnis speculat that his boss ma the ment to protect Chnis at a time when was profsnally dangero to be intified as gay. At the time, the Tim says, there had never been an openly gay law clerk at the Supreme Court, and was profsnally dangero to be intified as gay.

Bowers was overturned 2003, when openly gay clerks were more mon. “The days, ” the Tim says, “jtic are more likely to work and socialize wh openly gay people than most Amerins are.