Meet Gene Berry for Chancery Judge

Biography

Gene Berry is a lifelong Mississippian and trial attorney with over forty years of courtroom experience. A native of Moss Point, Gene earned a scholarship to Mississippi State University, where he was a proud member of the Bulldog football team — including the 1980 Sun Bowl and 1981 Hall of Fame Bowl teams. He went on to earn his law degree from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1985.

Gene began his legal career in Jackson-area law firms before founding his own practice in Madison in 2006. Over the course of his career, he has tried cases in Chancery, Circuit, and United States District Courts throughout Mississippi, and has argued before the Mississippi Supreme Court, the Mississippi Court of Appeals, and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. He holds an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell — the legal profession's highest peer-review distinction — and has been recognized by both Best Lawyers and Mid-South Super Lawyers.

Gene and his wife Tesa, a Mississippi College graduate and kindergarten teacher at MRA for over twenty-two years, have made Madison County their home for nearly four decades. They have three adult children — Dana, Matthew, and Andrew — and five grandchildren, all proudly rooted in Madison County. Gene and Tesa are members of First Baptist Church Madison, where Gene serves as a deacon. For more than twenty-five years, he has been active in the prison ministry at the Community Work Center in Canton.

Vision

Chancery Court touches some of the most personal moments in people's lives — the protection of children, the division of families, the settling of estates. These are not abstract legal matters. They are the decisions that shape generations.

Gene Berry understands that. After forty years as a trial attorney — sitting across from judges, managing crowded dockets, and fighting for his clients — he knows what lawyers and litigants need from the bench: preparation, patience, and fairness.

As Chancery Judge, Gene will bring efficiency without sacrificing care. He believes justice delayed is justice denied, and he will work to keep cases moving while giving every matter the attention it deserves. He will treat attorneys, litigants, court staff, and clerks with professionalism and respect — because the dignity of the process matters as much as its outcome.

Gene's thirty-eight years in Madison County, his faith, and his work in prison ministry have shaped a simple conviction: every person who walks into a courtroom deserves to be seen, heard, and treated with dignity. That is the judge Gene Berry will be.