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develop. He said, "That's exactly what I want you to do." And I'm sure he probably remembers that conversation 25 years ago.
But the main thing that I appreciate over the years is Judge Russell?s support, his support in developing that position, even when he was told by the Chief Justice of the United States that he loved the name magistrate because he thought of it and he didn't want judge associated with it, and Judge Russell came back and said that's a bunch of baloney. He said you try as many cases as I do so you're going to be called judge as along as I have any anything to do with it, and so that type of support has endeared Judge Russell to me for many, many years.
Judge Russell and I have traveled this state for the last 25 years. We must have disposed of 10,000 cases at least. We have pretried cases together, we have tried cases together, we have had calendar after calendar together. And we go back to the time period where we just didn't have the Coast, we had Hattiesburg, we had Meridian, we had almost
JAMIE L. WETZEL, CSR - CIRCUIT COURT REPORTER