The George County Court Calendar
George County posts an official 2026 Circuit Court calendar as a static yearly term sheet. It is not a docket database. No case, party, attorney, courtroom, or hearing time appears on it. For planning around the George County Circuit Court of the Nineteenth Judicial District, it still does its job. That district description remains accurate through 2026.
One dated change sits on the horizon. Legislation moves George County into the Eighteenth Circuit on January 1, 2027. That is a structural note about the future. It gives no one a reason to relabel a 2026 Circuit record. Chancery, Justice Court, and Lucedale Municipal Court each keep their own cases and clerk channels. This annual Circuit calendar stands in for none of them.
George County Court Calendar Colors
The county's annual chart sorts Circuit term blocks by color. Yellow belongs to Judge Miller. Blue marks Judge Jackson, green marks Judge Taylor, and red marks Grand Jury. A color names a calendar block and nothing more. It is not a ruling or a courtroom assignment. It is also not proof that any one case will actually be reached that day. The county's calendar image shows the full legend and every coded week.
Treat the color legend as a reading aid for the annual schedule. For the setting of a particular case, confirm with the right clerk or an authenticated docket record.
George County Court Calendar Term Blocks
Read the annual calendar as a range of Circuit activity, never as an appointment. The 2026 image places green blocks on January 20–23, March 31, May 4–8, August 3–7, September 8 and 15, October 19–23, and December 1–2. Yellow blocks cover January 26–30, March 19, July 2 and 27–31, September 17, October 26–30, and December 7. Blue blocks run February 2–6, March 26, April 27–May 1, June 18, July 20–24, September 24, and November 2–6.
A few more color-coded dates fill out the chart. April 20–24 appear in yellow, June 23 in green, and red is reserved for the grand jury. Each block does one small thing. It ties a date range to its legend color. It cannot tell you whether your George County case is set that day. Nor can it tell you whether the case will be reached, or the time and room for an appearance.
| What the annual calendar shows | What still needs confirmation |
|---|---|
| Date range and judge color for a Circuit term block | Case number, case style, setting type, time, courtroom, and appearance instruction. |
| Grand Jury color designation | Whether a particular case is called, presented, continued, or otherwise affected. |
| General term-planning context | The latest signed setting or order for one specific case. |
Use a block to plan when to seek confirmation. Never use it to decide whether you must appear. The case-specific details the annual chart leaves out live in a notice, a docket entry, or a call to the clerk.
How to Find Your Court Date
Begin with the court named on your citation, notice, or prior order. Circuit and Chancery cases may show a later setting or order in an authenticated MEC/PAMEC case register, though its registered public-access layer is not a free anonymous statewide search. A citation controls the original appearance instruction. A later signed order, docket event, or clerk confirmation can supersede it.
- Keep the case number or citation, court name, party name, and any appearance date from the notice.
- For Circuit or Chancery, use the relevant authenticated MEC/PAMEC path and read the latest setting, continuance, or order.
- Check the annual Circuit calendar only as a term-planning reference, not as proof of an individual hearing.
- Call or visit the correct clerk: Circuit, Chancery, Justice Court, or Lucedale Municipal Court.
- When the clerk provides it, ask to inspect a posted docket sheet or public terminal; none is promised by the published inventory.
- For a federal matter, use PACER and the Southern District’s own schedule rather than a county calendar.
Call the office that holds your case: the Circuit Clerk at 601-947-4881, the Chancery Clerk at 601-947-4801, Justice Court at 601-947-4834, or Lucedale Municipal Court at 601-766-3336. Ask about the court, the time, the location, the appearance method, and how to request any accommodation. Do not assume those details from a term block.
Reading a Court Setting
A setting is simply a scheduled court event. An authenticated docket may list an event date apart from the filing or entry date, which makes the newest entry the one that counts. George County's anonymous MEC pages do not display a live case setting, so the fields described below sketch a general docket-setting schema rather than a public calendar form the county actually publishes.
| Date | The scheduled date for the specific event, which may be later changed by a continuance or order. |
|---|---|
| Time | The stated appearance time or docket call time; obtain it from the current notice, register, or clerk. |
| Courtroom | The location or courtroom when the case record or clerk supplies it; annual colors do not supply one. |
| Judge | The assigned or presiding judge where shown. Calendar color is not a substitute for a case assignment. |
| Setting Type | For example, arraignment, pretrial, motion, hearing, trial, mediation, or show-cause proceeding. |
George County Court Setting Clues
Circuit MEC status labels include Arraignment Pending, Plea Pending, Trial Pending, Pretrial Interv Pending, Nolle Pros Pending, Final Judgment Issued, Probation, and appeal labels. Chancery adds MOTREF, MEDIATION, ENE, ARBITRATION, EX PARTE, CASREF, R&R, SHOW CAUSE ORDER, and Trial Pending. Each label is a workflow clue. None of them explains the controlling order. Read past the label to the document itself.
- Arraignment
- The stage at which charges and a plea are addressed or scheduled.
- Pretrial
- A preparation or status stage before trial, not necessarily a trial date.
- Show cause
- A proceeding asking a party to explain alleged noncompliance.
- Continuance or reset
- A later court-approved event that moves an earlier setting.
Always read the event text beside the latest signed document. The county publishes no complete local glossary for courtroom shorthand and no anonymous setting-type menu, so the paper controls.
Resets, Continuances, and Cancellations
George County publishes no local reset rule and no standard definition of a "pass." In practice, though, a reset just means a later order or docket entry that moves an earlier setting. Keep the old notice for context. What counts is the newest signed order, the current register entry, or a confirmation straight from the clerk about whether the setting still stands.
Weather and emergency access changes can also shift a setting. County notices from 2020 described mail, phone, email, drop-box, and MEC e-filing options while foot traffic was restricted, but those notices are history now, not a current closure or remote-hearing policy. The county posts no routine for how fast an annual calendar catches up after a reset.
George County Court Calendar Limits
George County's general events calendar can list public county happenings, but sit it below the annual Circuit calendar in the authority order. It is not a docket calendar. Reading it will not tell you a case is set, continued, dismissed, or called, because the general-events source simply does not carry that kind of case detail.
Treat general event listings as broad scheduling context only. For any case-specific question, go to the court that owns the file.
What To Do If You Miss a Setting
If a George County setting was missed, act promptly. Find the court named on the citation or case papers. Keep the notice and case number handy. Then ask the clerk whether a later order, reset, or new appearance instruction exists. If a lawyer represents you, contact that lawyer quickly too. The right response depends on the case and the court. No general calendar can settle it.
Missed a Setting? A missed criminal setting can be associated with a bench-warrant, capias, bond, or other docket action, depending on the case and court.
Contact the relevant clerk immediately for the current status and do not assume a future annual-calendar block fixes the missed appearance.
Ask a licensed attorney about a missed George County court setting before taking action in a pending case.
George County Court Date Channels
The venue decides the channel. Circuit and Chancery cases run through their participating MEC/PAMEC court sites. Justice Court and Lucedale Municipal Court call for direct clerk contact. No verified online docket serves them. A federal case belongs in PACER, not MEC. When you must first locate a case number or docket history, Case Search walks through the same court-routing step.
For Circuit settings, use the Nineteenth Circuit MEC court page. For Chancery, use the Sixteenth Chancery MEC court page. PAMEC support sits at 601-576-4650. In the end, the relevant court, not a generic calendar, verifies the current setting.