Joe N. Tatum

Joe N. Tatum is a shareholder in the firm of Tatum and Wade, PLLC. He received his Bachelor of Administration Degree in Accounting from Jackson State University in August 1991. (Cum Laude.) He received his Juris Doctorate degree in 1996 from the Mississippi College School of Law, where he received the American Jurisprudence Award in Secured Transactions, was a Frederick Douglass Moot Court Semi-Finalist, and served on the Moot Court Board and competed in several national moot court competitions.

Mr. Tatum practices in the areas of personal injury, tax law and employment law. He is a member of the American Association of Justice, Mississippi Association of Justice, Magnolia Bar Association, and the Mississippi State Bar Association. Mr. Tatum has received some of the highest awards bestowed on an attorney, including being named a Fellow of the Mississippi Bar Foundation and a Diplomat of the American Board of Trial Advocates. Membership into these two prestigious legal organizations are limited to the top five (5) percent of attorneys as voted by their peers. He is admitted to practice in the Mississippi Supreme Court, Northern and Southern District Courts of Mississippi, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and all Mississippi Circuit, Chancery, County and Justice Courts, as well as all state and federal courts of the States of California and Nevada. Mr. Tatum and his wife Gwennetta reside in Madison, Mississippi and have three daughters.