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ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEYS Assistant District Attorneys are lawyers who work for the District Attorney, prosecuting and trying cases. They are: LAUREN
BARNES HARLESS.
Mrs. Harless is licensed to practice
law in the State of
Mississippi. Her prior experience includes clerkships with both
the
Mississippi Supreme Court and the Mississippi Court of Appeals.
She
currently serves as an Assistant District Attorney in the 15th Circuit
Court
District, including Jefferson Davis, Lamar, Lawrence, Marion and Pearl
River
Counties. Mrs. Harless’s position is federally funded under the
Violence
Against Women Act Grant and she primarily prosecutes felony domestic
violence
cases in all five counties. She also participates in annual
conferences
addressing the prosecution and prevention of violence against women and
monthly team meetings with social services and law enforcement agencies
in each county
to facilitate prosecution of violent crimes among the various
investigative
agencies. She has received the Multidisciplinary Team Award for
Marion/Jefferson
Davis County in 2003 and for Lamar County in 2004.
She began her legal career as law
clerk to Mississippi
Supreme Court Justice Joel Blass. Mrs. Bryan has practiced law in
both
the private and public sector. While in the private sector, she
practiced
in both chancery and circuit courts. She has practiced criminal
law
since 1991, and has been a felony prosecutor for ten years. She
is
currently employed as an Assistant District Attorney for the 15th
Circuit
Court District of the State of Mississippi.
At the present time, Mrs. Bryan is on the faculty of
the
National Advocacy Center located at the University of South
Carolina.
The National Advocacy Center is the teaching arm of the National
District
Attorney’s Association. She teaches trial advocacy at the center
to
other less experienced state prosecutors, who practice across the
United
States. She is a member of the National District Attorney’s Association, the Mississippi Bar Association, the Mississippi Prosecutor’s Association and the Pearl River County Bar Association. She has served as treasurer and secretary of the Pearl River County Bar Association and presently holds the office of vice-president.
For the past three years, she has volunteered as a
mock
trial coach for the Picayune Memorial High School forensics and debate
team.
The team has been very successful, placing third in the state during
its
first year of mock trial competition.
As a fifth generation Pearl River countian, she
makes
her home in its Henleyfield Community. She is married to Charles
Clark
Bryan and they have four children and three grandchildren. She
attends
the First Baptist Church of Picayune where she teaches preschool Sunday
school.
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Lauren Barnes Harless graduated from
Hancock High School, earned
her Bachelor of Arts degree in English at the University of Southern
Mississippi,
and received her Juris Doctor from the University of Mississippi in
2000.
Manya Creel
Bryan obtained a Bachelor of Science degree
from the University of Southern Mississippi, where she earned a
major
in history and minor in English and secondary education. She
earned
her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Mississippi.
During
her second year of law school, she earned a staff position on the
Mississippi
Law Journal based upon her grade point average and writing
ability.
She also served on the editorial board as associate editor of the
Mississippi
Law Journal. While attending law school she was also a member of
the Moot Court Board and Phi Delta Phi honorary fraternity. 
Mr. Miller graduated from Sumrall
High School in 1980,
graduated from Pearl River Community College with an Associate in Arts
Degree
in 1982, graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi with a
Bachelor
in Arts in 1984, and received his Juris Doctorate from the University
of
Mississippi in 1987.
