Biography for Rebecca Mansell

Rebecca Mansell is an experienced career prosecutor assigned to the Madison County District Attorney’s Office.  Rebecca began her legal career in 1994 as the first female Assistant District Attorney assigned to the Rankin County District Attorney’s office working with the Highway Interdiction Narcotics units and forfeiture unit.

After serving as an Assistant District Attorney in Rankin County for three years, Rebecca became an Assistant District Attorney in Hinds County for ten years.
During the ten years Rebecca was at the Hinds County District Attorney’s Office, she handled many high profile violent cases.  She was the only prosecutor in Hinds County who successfully prosecuted every one of her cases without ever losing a case as the first chair.

In 2006, Rebecca also successfully prosecuted the last death penalty case tried in Hinds County.  The jury sentenced the defendant to death for killing a small child.  This was the first time in sixteen years that a Hinds County jury had sentenced a defendant to death.

During her tenure as a prosecutor, Rebecca has served as Secretary/Treasurer of the Mississippi Prosecutors Association and has been named Special Counsel for the Character and Fitness Division for the Mississippi Board of Bar Admissions.

Rebecca graduated cum laude from Florida State University in 1991 receiving academic honor membership to Mortar Board and Phi Delta Kappa.  In 1994, Rebecca graduated from Mississippi College School of Law having received the prestigious award of the  American Jurisprudence Award in Counseling and Negotiations. 

Rebecca and her husband, Creede, live in Madison County, Mississippi with their two children.