Roun McNeal
Instructional Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies, Department of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies, School of Applied Sciences
BIO
Roun McNeal is a teaching faculty member in the Department of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies. Prior to joining the university in 2023, he was an attorney in his hometown of Leakesville, Mississippi in a practice focused on real property and local government. He served as a municipal prosecutor before being elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives in 2015. In 2024, Gov. Tate Reeves appointed Roun to the Mississippi Prison Industries Board.
He is active in Kairos Prison Ministries International, Abbie Rogers Civitan Camp, Christ Presbyterian Church, and Saint Anthony Hall. He serves as member or chair of several departmental and university committees. He is an organ transplant survivor, receiving a liver and a kidney in 2020. He graduated from the University of Mississippi (B.A. ‘07) and University of Mississippi School of Law (J.D. ‘10) after which he clerked for the Hon. Randy Pierce on the Mississippi Supreme Court.
WHY CLI?
“The ubiquity of information at our fingertips has left many of us over-confident in our understanding of the world and vulnerable to misinformation (both malicious and unintentional). Intellectual humility – being strong in our curiosity and willing to challenge our own conclusions – is a virtue that teachers should model as foundational to the credibility of a liberal arts education.”