Mike Greer is a graduate of the University of Mississippi and received his Juris Doctor from the University of Mississippi School of Law, with honors.  After practicing for several years as a partner in one of the state’s largest defense firms, in 1995 he founded what has evolved into the Greer, Russell, Dent & Moore firm and currently leads the firm’s personal injury and insurance litigation divisions.  He is past president of the Lee County Bar Association.  Mr. Greer has served as a civil trial attorney over the course of more than four decades and has successfully tried numerous civil matters involving wrongful death, insurance bad faith, serious personal injuries due to automobile, commercial vehicle and train collisions, as well as complex business and contract disputes.  An experienced trial attorney, Mr. Greer is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts in Mississippi and in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.  

George Dent is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi and subsequently served five years in the US Army Signal Corps. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1980.  He began his legal career in an insurance defense firm and has continued to practice civil law, joining the Greer firm in 2006.  Mr. Dent has tried civil cases in state and federal courts throughout Mississippi.  He has handled appeals in the supreme Court of Mississippi and in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. His civil cases include tort, contract, probate, trusts, family law and other matters. He and another attorney held the record for the highest civil verdict for a single plaintiff in Mississippi for nearly two decades. Mr. Dent strives to give his clients excellent and just representation. He is fluent in Spanish.

After  20 years in private practice as a trial lawyer and serving as a County Prosecutor and Lee County Court Judge, James Moore joined the firm in 2023.  Mr. Moore practices in the firm’s personal injury, automobile accident, family law, and criminal law divisions.  He is a graduate of the University of Mississippi and received his Juris Doctor from the University of Mississippi School of Law.  

Jason Shelton joined the firm in 2025 and practices in the firm’s personal injury, automobile accident, family law, and criminal law divisions.  He  is a former Presidential Appointee as the Regional Administrator of the Southeast, Sunbelt, and Greater Southwest Regions of the General Services Administration and the former two term mayor of Tupelo, Mississippi. He was awarded the Mississippi Business Journal’s 2015 Under 40 Person of the Year as well as the 2015 Southeast Tourism Association’s Governmental Friend of Tourism Award for his work in promoting Tupelo.  Prior to entering elected public service, he owned and managed a general practice law firm of about 30 employees in Tupelo and served as the Town of Plantersville’s municipal attorney and prosecutor from 2001 until taking office as mayor in 2013. He has served as a civil trial attorney, criminal prosecutor, criminal defense attorney, family law attorney, and municipal attorney over the course of more than two decades. Jason has successfully tried hundreds of civil and criminal matters in front of judges and/or juries, including wrongful death, automobile accidents, and major personal injury litigation; divorces and child custody cases; and criminal cases ranging from misdemeanors to capital murder litigation. Prior to beginning his legal career, Jason clerked for Judge Frank Russell, a named partner of Greer, Russell, Dent, & Moore, PLLC.  In addition to practicing law, Mr. Shelton is an Adjunct Professor of Criminal Law at Itawamba Community College – Tupelo.

Circuit Court Judge, 1st Circuit Court District Mississippi, 1984-2002