- County Supervisors are members of a county-level board called the Board of Supervisors. The board runs the county government, including setting county priorities and funding projects with a multi-million dollar county budget. 
- The board is in charge of county roads, ferries, bridges, law enforcement, collections, fines, and taxes. They also appoint some county-level officials. 
- Decisions made by county supervisors directly impact economic development, public health, safety, and welfare of county citizens. 
- Each county is divided into five supervisor districts of equal population size. Supervisors are elected every four years in partisan elections. Elections take place in odd-numbered years before a presidential election (2023, 2027, 2031, etc.). 

Member of a 5-person board that runs the county

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- Chancery Court Clerks receive, file, and maintain court paperwork for the Chancery Court. They also serve as the clerk to the county board of supervisors, including keeping board minutes, issuing checks for the board, and acting as county treasurer and auditor. 
- Chancery Courts are for family law, including adoptions, custody disputes, and divorces, guardianships, sanity hearings, wills, equity, and challenges to the constitutionality of state laws. Court paperwork in all of these types of cases are filed with the clerk’s office, as well as land records. 
- Some Mississippi counties have no county courts. In these counties, everything that is normally heard in a county court is heard by the chancery court. This includes youth court, delinquency, abuse, and neglect. 
- These are 20 chancery court districts, with one elected clerk for each district. 

Official record keeper and administrator of the chancery court

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- Circuit Court Clerks are responsible for receiving and filing all lawsuits, indictments, motions, and other court paperwork in all civil and criminal cases filed in county and circuit courts. 
- These clerks also issue all summons and subpoenas at the county and circuit court level, as well as selects and qualifies citizens to serve on juries. 
- Circuit Court Clerks keep records of all court judgements, issue marriage licenses, record all professional licenses, and register citizens to vote. 
- Cases in circuit court are high-level criminal cases and civil cases, while cases in county court are eminent domain cases and juvenile court matters, including youth court, delinquency, abuse, and neglect cases. 
- Circuit Court Clerks are elected every four years in partisan elections

Official record keeper and administrator of the county and circuit courts

Circuit Court Clerk

- The County Coroner runs the Coroner’s Office, which is responsible for making sure that death investigators are available 24 hours per day to investigate all deaths “affecting the public interest.” 
- Deaths that they are responsible for investigating include deaths causes by accidents, murder, suicide, radiation, heat, electric, chemicals, abortion, disease, sudden infant death syndrome, unexplained deaths, deaths in prison or jail, and deaths where the identity of the dead is unknown. 
- The Coroner is responsible for maintaining copies of all death investigations for five years and coordinating with the State Medical Examiner. 
- There are two types of coroners: chief medical examiners (CMEs) and chief medical investigations (CMEIs). CMEs have a medical or osteopathic degree, while CMEIs are non-physicians who have at least a high school diploma. 
- Coroners are elected to four year terms in partisan elections.

The chief medical examiner or chief medical investigator for the county

County Coroner

- The County Attorney, also known as the County Prosecuting Attorney or the County Prosecutor, represents the state of Mississippi in low-level criminal cases filed in the county Justice Court system. 
- The County Attorney decides which cases to bring before the court and represents Mississippi’s interests in those cases. Examples of cases that the county attorney works on include DUIs, possession of drugs, assaults, domestic violence, and traffic cases. 
- Criminal appeals from the Justice Court to the Circuit Court are also prosecuted by the County Attorney. 
- County Attorney’s are elected in partisan elections to four year terms. 

Acts as the attorney for the county in low-level criminal cases

County Attorney

- The Tax Assessor & Collector is responsible for determining how much people owe in taxes, as well as collecting those taxes. 
- The Tax Assessor & Collector figures out how much each person in the county owes in property taxes on real estate and personal property, and they keep records on changes in ownership in property. 
- The Tax Assessor & Collector sends tax bills, collects payments, and distributes tax payments to the county in order to fund government services. They also handle registration and titling of vehicles. 
- Tax Assessors & Collector are elected every four years in partisan elections. Some Mississippi counties have this one office, while other counties elect separate officials to two distinct offices; Tax Collector and Tax Assessor. 

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Monroe County Supervisor, District 5

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Neshoba Chancery Court Clerk

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Neshoba Circuit Court Clerk

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Neshoba County Coroner

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Neshoba County Attorney

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Neshoba Tax Assessor & Collector

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Neshoba County Supervisor, District 1

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Neshoba County Supervisor, District 2

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Neshoba County Supervisor, District 3

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Neshoba County Supervisor, District 4

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