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reasons that he's been so blessed is because he had such respect for fellow lawyers and the fellow citizens that he served. I have never known him to be rude or make a rude statement or remark to a lawyer in this courtroom, no matter how obnoxious that lawyer might be. He never made him mad and he never lost his temper, and he has probably the most -- the greatest judicial temperament of any person that I have ever seen on the bench. I think it's been a rear privilege for the people of Mississippi and the United States District Court of the Southern District to have had him as judge.
I tell you this one little thing. I went to a federal judges conference here a few years back with he and Judge Gex, and I was sitting out in the audience between the two of them, and Gary Spence who is a very famous lawyer, most of you remember from Wyoming who's been very famous, was making a speech and he opened it up for questions.
And I'm sitting here with Judge Russell and Judge Gex. And some federal judge from Texas got up and said, "Mr. Spence, I'd like to ask
JAMIE L. WETZEL, CSR - CIRCUIT COURT REPORTER