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Alva Peyton Taylor, Attorney at Law | Criminal Defense in Yazoo City, MS (h1)

Alva Peyton Taylor, PLLC is a solo criminal defense practice built around the career of attorney Alva Peyton Taylor, a native of Yazoo City, Mississippi, who has practiced law since 1998 after graduating from Mississippi College Law School. She began her legal career with the Mississippi Department of Human Services before serving as an Assistant Public Defender, and later became the first African American and the first woman named Head Public Defender of Yazoo County.

Taylor’s practice centers on criminal defense, family law, and drug court advocacy, informed by her tenure as defense attorney for the 21st Judicial District Adult Felony Intervention Court and as Youth Court Referee for Holmes County. That combination of public defense and drug court experience shapes her approach to cases involving addiction-related charges and juvenile matters, where she has direct familiarity with both prosecutorial practice and court-supervised treatment programs. Taylor describes her focus as “helping the people who need it most,” a philosophy reflected in her long tenure in public defense roles before establishing her private practice.

Taylor’s standing in the Yazoo City and Holmes County legal community rests on her historic role as the first woman and first African American to lead the Yazoo County Public Defender’s Office, along with more than two decades spent in both public defense and private practice.

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