Calvin “Buck” Buchanan, former United States Attorney, Northern District of Mississippi, will become the West Point Office Managing Attorney for North Mississippi Rural Legal Services (NMRLS) on June 17, 2019.
Buchanan comes with an illustrious background in the legal profession. He spent a summer working in the West Point office of NMRLS as a law clerk while in law school. He graduated from the University of Mississippi Law School in 1983 and has held a number of impressive positions in the military and civilian life.
He served seven years in the U.S. Army as a prosecutor, defense counsel and civil counsel. He has also served as adjunct professor of business law, and adjunct professor of hospitality law, family and consumer sciences at the University of Mississippi. He was an assistant United States attorney, Northern District of Mississippi (criminal law) for seven years and appointed United States attorney, Northern District of Mississippi by President Clinton, where he served four years.
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