MR. SAM SIMMONS was born in Utica, MS, on November 29, 1930, and was admitted to the Mississippi Bar Association in 1962. He attended the undergraduate school at Mississippi State University where he received his B.S. in 1951, and he attended law school at the Mississippi College School of Law, where he received his L.L.B. and graduated cum laude. He is a member of the Rankin County Bar Association and the American Bar Association and is a veteran of the United States Air Force, 1st Lt., 1951-1953.