LTJPx04 Jody Owens (Hinds DA)
Let's Talk Jackson: Jackson, Mississippi
English - July 22, 2019 16:07 - 46 minutes - 52.6 MB - ★★★★ - 17 ratingsPlaces & Travel Society & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this, the fourth episode in a limited series for for the 2019 political season, Donna Ladd speaks with Jody Owens, a candidate for district attorney in Hinds County; Owens originally from Terry, Mississippi, where he grew up in the country on a farm. He went to Terry High School, Jackson State University and on to law school. Recently he was head of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Mississippi office; in June, Owens, who is campaigning as a reformer, was endorsed by Jackson mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba as a replacement for outgoing district attorney Robert Shuler Smith.
Links:
jfp.ms/news/2019/jun/25/jody-owens-nets-endorsements-district-attorney-sys/
https://www.facebook.com/OwensforHindsDA
https://www.owensforda.com/