Biography for Dow Yoder

After earning a full football scholarship to Mississippi College in 1989,
and playing for the Choctaws on the NCAA Division II National
Championship team, Dow Yoder graduated in 1994 with a major in
accounting and minor in political science. Yoder was the third person
in the history of Mississippi College to be honored with appointment
as a Truman Scholar by the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation,
a memorial established by the United States Congress for those
dedicated to a career of public service. Following college, he
worked on the 1994 campaign of current United States Senator
Roger Wicker, who was elected as the first republican to the United
States House of Representatives since Reconstruction in Mississippi's
First Congressional District.

After serving as an intern law clerk for United States District Court
Judge Charles W. Pickering, Sr., Dow Yoder graduated from the
University of Mississippi School of Law in 1999. He clerked for
Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Michael P. Mills until entering
private practice. Admitted to practice in all state and federal courts
in Mississippi, the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and
United States Supreme Court, Yoder has also served on the
Mississippi Supreme Court Mediation Rules Committee; the Ethics
and Lawyers/Judges Assistance Committees of the Mississippi Bar;
and as Counsel for the Mississippi Federation for Immigration
Reform and Enforcement. He is a member of the Mississippi
Prosecutors' Association and has been a life member of the
National Rifle Association since 1985.

Dow Yoder began work as an Assistant District Attorney in 2008.
He was appointed as a Special Assistant United States Attorney
in 2009, where he assisted the United States Department of Justice
with white collar fraud prosecutions in the Southern District of
Mississippi. He has served as a volunteer with the Andrew Jackson
Council of the Boy Scouts of America and Madison/Ridgeland Youth
Club athletics. He and his family reside in Ridgeland, and worship at
Broadmoor Baptist Church.