Experience & Engagement
Judge Teeuwissen has practiced law for 34 years and has over two decades of public service. Some of Judge Tee’s education and experience includes:
- Tougaloo College (1987) magna cum laude double major
- Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., Rho Epsilon Chapter F’85
- University of Minnesota Law School
- Princeton University Sloan Fellow studying economics and public policy
- Married the former Lisa Moman Moorehead at and attend New Hope Baptist Church with three children graduating Alpha – Omega from New Hope Christian School
- New Hope Christian School PSO President, 2002-2004; girls basketball coach 2005– 2011
- City Litigation Counsel under Mayor Frank Melton
- City Attorney under Mayor Harvey Johnson, Jr., and Mayor Chokwe Lumumba, Sr.
- Board Attorney, Hinds County Board of Supervisors
- Recipient of the Magnolia Bar Association R. Jess. Brown Award (the Association’s highest honor)
- Magnolia Bar Association Government Service Award
- Lifetime Member of the Magnolia Bar Association
- Mississippi Bar Foundation Fellow
- More than 100 civil/felony criminal trials as lead counsel or co-counsel to, among others: the Hon. Reuben V. Anderson, Isaac K. Byrd, Jr., Dale Danks, Jr., Dennis Sweet, Gail Wright Lowery, Rhonda Cooper, Kimberly Banks, Barbara Bluntson and Anthony Simon.
- Law Clerk for Bob and Denise Owens; legal practice with Isaac K. Byrd, Jr., Hal Dockins, Dale Danks, Jr., and Anthony R. Simon
- Hinds County Special Circuit Judge (2008)
- Board Member via Mississippi Supreme Court Appointment to the Board of Bar Admissions, 2002 – present (former Chair)
- Board Member, Mississippi Food Network (currently Secretary)
- Board Member, Reuben V. Anderson Pre-Law Program, Tougaloo College
- Sponsor, Coach Sylvia Wade’s Jackson Lady Hornets AAU Program
- Father of the Year Award from the Hon. Kenneth I. Stokes
- Along with wife Lisa and other partners, brought Wingstop to West Jackson