Rod G. Hickman

About Rod

Rod G. Hickman is a founding partner of Hickman Fondren, PLLC. He focuses his practice on personal injury, employment, and workers' compensation matters, while also advising clients on a wide range of legal issues including family law and employment law. Rod received his Bachelor of Arts and J.D. (magna cum laude) from the University of Mississippi School of Law. During law school, he was an Associate Articles Editor for the Mississippi Law Journal, a member of the Moot Court Board, and served on the executive board of the National Black Law Students Association. He was honored as the 2017 Outstanding Student and received the Dean’s Distinguished Leader Award at the University of Mississippi School of Law. Rod is currently the chairman of the University of Mississippi School of Law Alumni Diversity Council. He previously worked as an Associate Attorney focusing on employment law and premises liability litigation. In August 2019, he was elected as the first Black County Prosecutor for Noxubee County, Mississippi, and in January 2020, he was appointed municipal prosecutor for the Town of Shuqualak, MS. He also serves as an adjunct prelaw professor at Tougaloo College and The W. Rod is active in his community and is a member of the Magnolia Bar Association (co-chair of the Young Lawyers Division) and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated.

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Colleagues at Hickman Fondren, PLLC

M. Denise Fondren

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Gabrieal L. Carter

Associate Attorney