About Barbara Blackmon
Barbara Blackmon has built her career around helping individuals, families, businesses, and organizations navigate important legal and financial decisions. After beginning her legal practice in Mississippi, she developed a reputation for combining legal knowledge with practical business insight gained through advanced education and real-world experience. Clients often come to her seeking guidance in matters that require careful planning, strategic thinking, and long-term perspective. Barbara Blackmon's legal career includes private practice, municipal representation, tax law, corporate counsel work, and governmental service. She has represented individuals, businesses, municipalities, nonprofit organizations, and major corporate clients throughout Mississippi.
Her experience includes both plaintiff and defense matters, giving her insight into a wide range of legal strategies and challenges. Barbara has served as City Attorney for the City of Canton, Carthage and Magnolia. She has served as County Attorney for Claiborne County, Attorney for the Claiborne County Medical Center, Attorney for the Claiborne County Port Commission, Attorney for Canton Municipal Utilities, Special Counsel for Hinds County and presently Special Counsel for the City of Rolling Fork. Her public service included serving 20 years in the Mississippi State Senate, where she worked on issues involving education, economic development, healthcare, and public policy.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Blackmon & Blackmon, PLLC
These results are credited to Blackmon & Blackmon, PLLC. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
Ashley Newton was driving behind an automobile-hauler trailer on U.S. Highway 49 when its driver drifted across into her lane without signaling. She fractured a cervical vertebra in two places, her hip, her knee, and her tibia and fibula in compound fractures, and needed numerous surgeries.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.