The Mississippi Supreme Court on Wednesday permanently disbarred Jody Owens, the former Hinds County District Attorney who recently resigned after pleading guilty to a federal charge conspiring to commit bribery.
The move was expected after the Mississippi Bar sought to suspend Owens from practicing law by filing a complaint with the state’s high court earlier this month. Shortly after, Owens filed a motion indicating he would voluntarily resign.
Owens pleaded guilty to the federal felony charge in June, two weeks before he was set to go on trial in a case stemming from an FBI operation that rocked Mississippi’s capital city.
Owens learned Wednesday afternoon that he was disbarred from a Mississippi Today reporter. He was working from his private downtown Jackson office, the space that prosecutors said Owens called his “War Room.”
“In 20 years I did wonderful things with my law license and certainly impacted thousands of lives in Mississippi and I’ll always be proud of that,” he said, referring to the work he did as the former head of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Mississippi branch.
“The problem right now is the world is so toxic,” he added. “You say ‘SPLC’ and people can’t wait to jump on you.”
The SPLC was recently indicted in Alabama on federal fraud charges.
A native of Terry in southern Hinds County, Owens was admitted to the Mississippi bar in 2006. He won election as Hinds County’s top prosecutor in 2019, besting two rivals in the Democratic primary, and avoided a runoff.
A self-proclaimed “progressive prosecutor,” Owens eventually caught the eye of federal authorities. Beginning as early as 2023, two undercover FBI agents posed as real estate developers seeking to build a convention center hotel in downtown Jackson on a plot of land for which the city had previously obtained a federal loan to develop.
The agents enlisted an unsuspecting Owens, who has also worked in real estate, to connect them to powerful Jacksonians, including now-former Jackson City Council Member Aaron Banks and former Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, according to a lengthy indictment unveiled in the fall of 2024.
The two other elected officials also pleaded guilty in connection to the federal bribery case, one week after Owens.
Owens’ sentencing is set for Oct. 15 before Judge Daniel P. Jordan III in the Southern District of Mississippi. He faces up to five years in prison.
The now-former attorney isn’t quite ready to reveal what he plans to do next. But he’s recently been taking inspiration from the 1996 movie “The Preacher’s Wife.”
“As the Whitney Houston song goes, ‘I believe in miracles,’” he said.
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