Two new municipal court judges are on the bench in the city of Jackson.
Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba appointed Kevin B. Bass and Lilli Evans Bass as municipal judges and the city council confirmed the decision. Kevin B. Bass and Lilli Evans Bass are not related to each other.
Kevin B. Bass, who grew up in Jackson, is a 2007 cum laude graduate of Jackson State University and a 2011 graduate of the University of Mississippi School of Law.
He pledged to be a fair and impartial judge who follows the law.
Lumumba said Kevin Bass has demonstrated professionalism in his work. “He fits the footprint of young professionals that we like to lift up in the city,” he said.
Virgi Lindsay, who represents Ward 7 and serves as the council’s president, said Bass has an impressive resume. “I do sense you will be a good and fair judge,” she said.
He has worked as a trial attorney for the Walker Group, PC since August 2014. The Walker Group served as general counsel for the Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport and the Jackson Municipal Airport Authority until March 2021.
Kevin B. Bass was a trial attorney/assistant district attorney for Tunica and Coahoma County from October 2011 until February 2014. He served as a law clerk at the Southern Poverty Law Center from May 2010 until July 2010 and worked as a legal intern/researcher in the law office of John Keith Perry Jr. in Southaven from June 2011 until August 2011.
Lilli Evans Bass has been a partner with Brown Bass Jeter since August 2015 and a municipal judge for the city of Yazoo City since October 2014.
“I’m eager to bring that experience home,” she said. “I’m born and raised in Jackson. Jackson has always been home.”
Lillie Bass said she believes in swift, efficient and fair justice.
“I hope to develop any programs possible for the betterment of our citizens, for the betterment of the system and to work with the existing judges and see how we can continue the greatness of municipal court but also bring my experiences to build on that and make it the best possible court system,” she said.
Lilllie Evans Bass was an attorney with Currie Johnson Griffin & Myers from August 2010 until July 2015.
She was a judicial law clerk for George C. Carlson Jr., presiding justice over the Mississippi Supreme Court from August 2008 until July 2010 and an intern for S. Allan Alexander, magistrate judge for the United State District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi, from January 2008 until May 2008. She has worked as a law clerk for Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, Balch & Bingham and the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office.
Lilli Evans Bass received a bachelor’s degree in political science from Tougaloo College in 2005 and a law degree from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 2008.
Lindsay commended Lilli Evans Bass for her service. “I love that you are so smart and so capable and so conscientious and a young woman who is going to make a difference in our city,” she said.
