Freddie E. (Trey) Bourn III

Freddie E. (Trey) Bourn III earned his B.A. in journalism and English in 1993 from Baylor University, where he was News Editor for The Lariat.  He earned his M.A. in English from Mississippi State University in 1997, where he was Associate Editor for The Mississippi Quarterly.  In 2000, Trey graduated from The University of Mississippi School of Law, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Mississippi Law Journal.  Bourn is a partner at the law firm Butler Snow LLP, in Jackson, Miss., where he has practiced law for over 20 years.  Bourn is admitted to practice law in Mississippi and Tennessee.

“I owe a lot to my Baylor journalism degree.  Even though I am sure the professors thought I was a lost cause, I learned how to write in the style that I still use every day (I even wrote a book!).  Every day I remember John Tisdale’s telling me that skillful writing is conveying information without having the reader stop and think about the writer.  Unfortunately, I also everyday think of Dr. Ferdon shaking his head at me when I could not grasp noun-pronoun agreement.  Sigh.” ~ Freddie Bourn