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In 2005, Judge Southwick served in Iraq as a member of the Mississippi National Guard’s 155th Brigade Combat Team. While on active duty, he served as Deputy Staff Judge Advocate from August 2004 to July 2005 and then as Staff Judge Advocate from July to January 2006. From 1992 to 1997, he served as a member of the Judge Advocate General’s Corps in the U.S. Army Reserves.
 
In 2005, Judge Southwick served in Iraq as a member of the Mississippi National Guard’s 155th Brigade Combat Team. While on active duty, he served as Deputy Staff Judge Advocate from August 2004 to July 2005 and then as Staff Judge Advocate from July to January 2006. From 1992 to 1997, he served as a member of the Judge Advocate General’s Corps in the U.S. Army Reserves.
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== Abortion Groups' Opposition to Judge Southwick ==
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Abortion groups oppose the confirmation of Judge Southwick by the [[U.S. Senate]] to the [[Fifth Circuit]].
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Judge Southwick upheld a conviction of a mother as an "accessory after the fact" in procuring an abortion for her underage daughter for a pregnancy that resulted from her statutory rape by her husband, who was not the girl's natural father.<ref>''Sherron v. Mississippi'', 2006 Miss. App. LEXIS 832 (Ct. App. Nov. 7, 2006)</ref>  The legal theory for the conviction was that the mother concealed the crime of sex abuse by procuring an abortion to conceal the result of that sex.  Mississippi law requires parental consent for a minor's abortion, which the mother provided and for which she was later convicted.
    
== Professional Experience ==
 
== Professional Experience ==
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Judge Southwick served as a law clerk for Judge Charles Clark of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and Judge John F. Onion, Presiding Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. He is a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law (1975) and Rice University (cum laude, 1972).
 
Judge Southwick served as a law clerk for Judge Charles Clark of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and Judge John F. Onion, Presiding Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. He is a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law (1975) and Rice University (cum laude, 1972).
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== References ==
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