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Jerry Harris
Jerry Harris was adopted as an infant and grew up on a farm in Yazoo County, Mississippi. He rode horses, fished, hunted, and after moving to the Mississippi Delta developed an int...view moreJerry Harris was adopted as an infant and grew up on a farm in Yazoo County, Mississippi. He rode horses, fished, hunted, and after moving to the Mississippi Delta developed an intense interest in Hemingway, Faulkner, Eudora Welty, and John Dos Passos. After high school, he attended Millsaps College and received a degree in English. Eudora Welty was the Writer in Residence at Millsaps and Jerry took Creative Writing classes from her his last two years at Millsaps. While at Millsaps, Jerry achieved recognition from the Southern Literary Festival for his short stories. Jerry has published another novel, A Broken Circle, a detective story, set in Memphis and the Mississippi Delta and Yazoo County, Mississippi.
After Millsaps came law school at Ole Miss. After graduating from Law School, Jerry relocated to Memphis, Tennessee in 1969. He became a trial attorney with the Shelby County District Attorney's Office in Memphis in 1974. His specialty was Homicide cases. He was head of the Major Violators Unit, Chief Homicide Prosecutor and Legal Advisor to the Homicide Squad of the Memphis Police Department. As advisor to the Homicide Squad for 30 years, Jerry worked with detectives and other policemen on an almost daily basis. Many of Jerry's trials were broadcast on Court TV.
After retirement in 2004, Jerry and his wife, Audrey decided to move to Tucson in 2007. Audrey is an ophthalmologist who still does surgery and maintains her medical career for three days a week. Jerry has two grown children. Paige, his oldest daughter, lives in Sharpsburg, Georgia and teaches school and is a riding instructor and horse trainer. She uses many lessons Jerry taught her when she showed horses in her youth that Jerry trained for her. His youngest daughter, Alexis is a Phi Beta Kappa Scholar who received her Doctorate in Psychology from Penn State University and is on the faculty of the University of Virginia. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky where she is in charge of a research project for the University of Virginia.view less