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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=James Harrell "Jim" Herring, Sr.
| image=Jim Herring of MS.jpg
| office=State Chairman, [[Mississippi]] [[Republican Party]]
| term_start=2001
| term_end=September 4, 2008
| preceded=Michael Retzer
| succeeded=Brad White
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]-turned-[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| birth_date=November 13, 1938
| birth_place=Canton, Madison County<br> Mississippi, USA
| residence=Canton, Mississippi
| occupation=[[Attorney]]
| religion=Grace Chapel (Evangelical [[ Presbyterian]] Church in Canton)
| spouse=Beverly Herring
| children=James Herring, Jr.<br>
Daughters Caroline and Christine
|alma_mater=[[University of Mississippi]]<br>
University of Mississippi School of Law
|branch=[[United States Army]]
|rank=[[Colonel]]; member of the [[Judge Advocate General's Corps]] and then the Army Reserve
|awards=Army Commendation Medal<br>
Three Meritorious Service medals}}
'''James Harrell Herring, Sr.''', known as '''Jim Herring''' (born November 13, 1938) is an [[attorney]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/james-herring/e369495352608|title=James Herring|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=October 9, 2020}}</ref> in private practice from his native Canton in Madison County, outside the capital city of [[Jackson]], [[Mississippi]]. From 1997 to 1999, he was a judge of the Mississippi Court of Appeals and from 2001 to 2008 the state chairman of the Mississippi [[Republican Party]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://djournal.com/news/herring-to-step-down-as-miss-gop-chairman/|title=Herring to step down as Miss. GOP chairman|author=Ashley Elkins|date=January 10, 2008|publisher=djjournal.com|accessdate=June 12, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gulfcoastnews.com/GCNarchive/2008/GCNnewsNewMSRepChairman090808.htm|title=New Chairman at Mississippi Republican Party: Brad White Brings New Energy and Grassroots Experience to MSGOP|date=September 8, 2008|publisher=''Gulf Coast News''|accessdate=June 12, 2014}}</ref>
==Background==
In 1960, Herring received a Bachelor of Arts in [[History]] from the [[University of Mississippi]] at Oxford. He obtained his law degree from the same institution. He served in the [[United States Army]] for three years of active duty during the [[Cold War]] as a member of the [[Judge Advocate General's Corps]]. For another twenty-one years, he was an Army reservist, in which capacity he reached the rank of [[colonel]]. He received the Army Commendation Medal and three Meritorious Service medals.<ref name=lawfirm/>
Herring and his wife, Beverly, have a son, James, Jr., and two daughters, Caroline and Christine. He is an elder in the Grave Chapel Evangelical [[Presbyterian]] in Canton.<ref name=lawfirm/>
==Political career==
A former prosecuting attorney for Madison County, Herring was elected as a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] in 1971 as the district attorney for the 20th Circuit District of Mississippi. On August 7, 1979, Herring ran for [[governor]] of Mississippi and polled 135,812 votes (18.4 percent) in the Democratic [[primary]] election. The nomination went to William F. Winter, who defeated Evelyn Gandy, the then lieutenant governor who carried the backing of former [[U.S. Senator]] [[James Eastland, in the runoff election. Winter then handily defeated Republican [[Gil Carmichael]] of Meridian in the [[general election]] in what became Carmichael's second consecutive defeat for the state's highest office.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=163612|title=Herring, Jim|publisher=ourcampaigns.com|accessdate=June 12, 2014}}</ref>At some point after 1979, Herring defected to the Republican Party.
In 1996, Governor [[Kirk Fordice]], the first Republican chief executive in his state since [[Reconstruction]], appointed Herring to the Mississippi State Personnel Board. In 1997, Fordice named him to the state Court of Appeals, in which capacity he participated in more than one thousand legal cases. Governor [[Haley Barbour]] named him a special judge of the Mississippi Supreme Court.<ref name=lawfirm/>
Herring has been a member of both the Executive and Rules Committees of the [[Republican National Committee]]. Through an appointment from the national party chairman, he has been the "Chairman of the Chairmen" of all state and territorial Republican parties. [[U.S. President]] [[George W. Bush]] appointed Herring to the trustees of the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation for a six-year term. He was also vice chairman of the foundation board. He is a board member of the [[Mississippi Center for Public Policy]]. In 2012, he headed the transition team for incoming Republican Governor [[Phil Bryant]].<ref name=lawfirm>{{cite web|url=http://www.hlclawfirm.com/Attorneys/James-H-Herring.shtml|title=James H. Herring|publisher=hlclawfirm.com|accessdate=June 12, 2014}}</ref>
Herring considers himself an advocate of [[Ronald Reagan]]'s "Eleventh Commandment" by which Republicans pledge not to attack other members of the party.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jim-herring.blogspot.com/|title=The Specter of Hillary|date=August 15, 2013|publisher=jim-herring.blogspot.com|accessdate=June 12, 2014}}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Herring, Jim}}
[[Category:Mississippi]]
[[Category:Attorneys]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Judges]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Former Democrats]]
[[Category:Presbyterians]]
[[Category:United States Army]]
| name=James Harrell "Jim" Herring, Sr.
| image=Jim Herring of MS.jpg
| office=State Chairman, [[Mississippi]] [[Republican Party]]
| term_start=2001
| term_end=September 4, 2008
| preceded=Michael Retzer
| succeeded=Brad White
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]-turned-[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| birth_date=November 13, 1938
| birth_place=Canton, Madison County<br> Mississippi, USA
| residence=Canton, Mississippi
| occupation=[[Attorney]]
| religion=Grace Chapel (Evangelical [[ Presbyterian]] Church in Canton)
| spouse=Beverly Herring
| children=James Herring, Jr.<br>
Daughters Caroline and Christine
|alma_mater=[[University of Mississippi]]<br>
University of Mississippi School of Law
|branch=[[United States Army]]
|rank=[[Colonel]]; member of the [[Judge Advocate General's Corps]] and then the Army Reserve
|awards=Army Commendation Medal<br>
Three Meritorious Service medals}}
'''James Harrell Herring, Sr.''', known as '''Jim Herring''' (born November 13, 1938) is an [[attorney]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/james-herring/e369495352608|title=James Herring|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=October 9, 2020}}</ref> in private practice from his native Canton in Madison County, outside the capital city of [[Jackson]], [[Mississippi]]. From 1997 to 1999, he was a judge of the Mississippi Court of Appeals and from 2001 to 2008 the state chairman of the Mississippi [[Republican Party]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://djournal.com/news/herring-to-step-down-as-miss-gop-chairman/|title=Herring to step down as Miss. GOP chairman|author=Ashley Elkins|date=January 10, 2008|publisher=djjournal.com|accessdate=June 12, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gulfcoastnews.com/GCNarchive/2008/GCNnewsNewMSRepChairman090808.htm|title=New Chairman at Mississippi Republican Party: Brad White Brings New Energy and Grassroots Experience to MSGOP|date=September 8, 2008|publisher=''Gulf Coast News''|accessdate=June 12, 2014}}</ref>
==Background==
In 1960, Herring received a Bachelor of Arts in [[History]] from the [[University of Mississippi]] at Oxford. He obtained his law degree from the same institution. He served in the [[United States Army]] for three years of active duty during the [[Cold War]] as a member of the [[Judge Advocate General's Corps]]. For another twenty-one years, he was an Army reservist, in which capacity he reached the rank of [[colonel]]. He received the Army Commendation Medal and three Meritorious Service medals.<ref name=lawfirm/>
Herring and his wife, Beverly, have a son, James, Jr., and two daughters, Caroline and Christine. He is an elder in the Grave Chapel Evangelical [[Presbyterian]] in Canton.<ref name=lawfirm/>
==Political career==
A former prosecuting attorney for Madison County, Herring was elected as a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] in 1971 as the district attorney for the 20th Circuit District of Mississippi. On August 7, 1979, Herring ran for [[governor]] of Mississippi and polled 135,812 votes (18.4 percent) in the Democratic [[primary]] election. The nomination went to William F. Winter, who defeated Evelyn Gandy, the then lieutenant governor who carried the backing of former [[U.S. Senator]] [[James Eastland, in the runoff election. Winter then handily defeated Republican [[Gil Carmichael]] of Meridian in the [[general election]] in what became Carmichael's second consecutive defeat for the state's highest office.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=163612|title=Herring, Jim|publisher=ourcampaigns.com|accessdate=June 12, 2014}}</ref>At some point after 1979, Herring defected to the Republican Party.
In 1996, Governor [[Kirk Fordice]], the first Republican chief executive in his state since [[Reconstruction]], appointed Herring to the Mississippi State Personnel Board. In 1997, Fordice named him to the state Court of Appeals, in which capacity he participated in more than one thousand legal cases. Governor [[Haley Barbour]] named him a special judge of the Mississippi Supreme Court.<ref name=lawfirm/>
Herring has been a member of both the Executive and Rules Committees of the [[Republican National Committee]]. Through an appointment from the national party chairman, he has been the "Chairman of the Chairmen" of all state and territorial Republican parties. [[U.S. President]] [[George W. Bush]] appointed Herring to the trustees of the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation for a six-year term. He was also vice chairman of the foundation board. He is a board member of the [[Mississippi Center for Public Policy]]. In 2012, he headed the transition team for incoming Republican Governor [[Phil Bryant]].<ref name=lawfirm>{{cite web|url=http://www.hlclawfirm.com/Attorneys/James-H-Herring.shtml|title=James H. Herring|publisher=hlclawfirm.com|accessdate=June 12, 2014}}</ref>
Herring considers himself an advocate of [[Ronald Reagan]]'s "Eleventh Commandment" by which Republicans pledge not to attack other members of the party.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jim-herring.blogspot.com/|title=The Specter of Hillary|date=August 15, 2013|publisher=jim-herring.blogspot.com|accessdate=June 12, 2014}}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Herring, Jim}}
[[Category:Mississippi]]
[[Category:Attorneys]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Judges]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Former Democrats]]
[[Category:Presbyterians]]
[[Category:United States Army]]