United States District Judge Debra Brown on Tuesday, February 22, 2022, was honored with presentation of Senate Concurrent Resolution 552 by the Mississippi Senate for being Mississippi's first African American female Chief Federal Judge.
Judge Brown received the gavel and became the new Chief Judge of the Northern District of Mississippi on June 11, 2021, during a ceremony held at the United States Courthouse in Greenville.
Judge Brown succeeded District Judge Sharion Aycock.
A Yazoo City native, Judge Brown has served as a District Judge since being nominated by former President Barack Obama and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate in 2013.
 
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Standing with United States District Judge Debra Brown as Senator Derrick T. Simmons presented Senate Concurrent Resolution 552, are from left: Senator David L. Jordan, Greenville Mayor Errick D. Simmons, Senators Robert L. Jackson, Hillman T. Frazier, and Joseph Thomas Sr., Jace Ferraez, Law Clerk for U.S. Northern District Bankruptcy Judge Selene Maddox, (3^rd from right), attorney Fred Banks, a former Mississippi Supreme Court Justice, Senators Briggs Hopson, and Rod Hickman.
 
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United States District Judge Debra Brown of Yazoo City posed with (from left), Senator Joseph Thomas of Yazoo City, her hometown, Lt. Governor Delbert Hosemann, attorney Fred Banks, a former Mississippi Supreme Court Justice and Senator Derrick T. Simmons.

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