The Hon. Toni Walker Terrett is a judge for the 9th Circuit Court District of Mississippi. She was elected to the bench in 2018 to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of the Hon. Isadore Patrick.
The 9th Circuit includes Issaquena, Sharkey, and Warren Counties.
Terrett presides over the 9th Circuit’s Intervention Court. Prior to her election, she served for nine years as a Community Court judge since 2009 and was also a senior municipal judge for the City of Vicksburg since 2013.
Over the course of her legal career, Terrett has managed her own private practice and served as a Drug Court Public Defender, a law clerk for the Hon. Vicki Roach Barnes with the 9th District Chancery Court, and a contract attorney for the Mississippi Center for Legal Services. She was also a faculty member in the Department of Mass Communications at Alcorn State University.
Terrett received a B.S. in chemistry from Tougaloo College (1996) and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Memphis (1998). She then completed a J.D. at Mississippi College School of Law in 2005.
Her memberships include the National Association of Women Judges and the Mississippi Association of Women Judges. Terrett is also a Fellow of the Mississippi Bar Foundation and the Judicial Engagement Network and served on The Mississippi Bar Access for Justice Committee and the Committee on Continuing Judicial Education.
She is a past president of the Mountain of Faith Ministries Board of Directors and has been involved with the Cary Christian Center Board of Directors, the NAMI-MS Board, and the Women for Progress of Mississippi.
Terrett, a graduate of The Mississippi Bar Leadership Forum (2015), was recognized as a Community Hero by The Vicksburg Post (2017) and as a Leader in Law by The Mississippi Business Journal (2016). She is also the recipient of the Social Action Trailblazer Award from the Southern Region of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. in 2018.
Terrett has served as a choir member at Mt. Alban Baptist Church and China Grove Baptist Church and is a certified Zumba instructor. She and her husband, Andre, have five children.
Terrett attended Vicksburg High School.