Hinds County Assistant District Attorney Gwendolyn Agho issued the following statement.
Gwen Agho, a trial prosecutor with a decade of experience in the Hinds County District Attorney's Office, today announced her candidacy for Hinds County District Attorney in the November 3, 2026 special election. Agho is running on a platform of transparency, integrity, and justice.
“I'm not in this for money, and I'm not in this for power. I'm in this for the people, victims and families, and I'm ready to lead this office,” said Agho. “I know where and how we are currently succeeding, and where we are currently failing, and I have real, concrete plans to improve the criminal justice system in Hinds County.”
A lifelong Hinds County resident raised in Clinton, Agho began her legal career as a staff attorney for the Mississippi Center for Legal Services, representing low-income Mississippians in need of legal counsel. Agho joined the Hinds County District Attorney's Office in 2016 and worked her way up to the role of Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney. She has spent the last decade prosecuting murders, violent crimes, crimes against children, and other serious felonies. She has tried nearly 100 cases and has been trusted with some of the office's most serious prosecutions.
As a top priority for her administration, Agho has pledged to overhaul how the office communicates with victims of crime and their families. She says the office too often resolves cases, including plea agreements, without contacting the victims involved.
“Victims deserve to know what's happening in their own cases. Too often in this office, cases get resolved without input from victims and their families,” said Agho. “That has to change. Every victim deserves to be heard, informed, and treated with dignity throughout the process, not just at the end of it.”
Agho has already worked to address problems inside the office. She led the office’s transition from a failing paper file system, under which case files and evidence were regularly lost or misplaced, to a fully digital case management system that she now administers.
“We were losing discovery, we were losing evidence, and that puts real cases and real victims at risk,” said Agho. “Moving the office to a digital system was necessary, and it's already made the office more transparent and more accountable. I've spent a decade inside this office. I know what works, I know what doesn't, and I know what we need to do next.”
The special election for Hinds County District Attorney will be held Tuesday, November 3, 2026.
About Gwen Agho
Gwen Agho is a lifelong Hinds County resident and veteran trial prosecutor. Growing up, Agho learned the value of hard work in her family’s restaurant, Monte's Steak & Seafood, a long-time staple of Hinds County cuisine. A Millsaps College and Ole Miss Law graduate, Agho began her legal career representing people who could not afford an attorney before joining the Hinds County District Attorney's Office in 2016. She has spent the last decade prosecuting serious criminal cases and has led the office's transition to a fully digital case management system. Agho is running for District Attorney to bring transparency, integrity, and justice to the office, with a renewed focus on keeping victims informed and involved in their own cases.
33 comments:
Well, isn’t that nice. More interesting is whether she intends vigorous and timely prosecutions of the legions of felons among us. Or is she more interested in patty cake crime prevention programs?
I agree that if she spent a decade in the Hinds County Prosecutor's office, she knows what DOESN'T work.
Is Jody backing her?
:Deputy Chief Assistntt?? How far up or down the ladder is that position? Deputy to the Chief Assistant sounds like its above the bottom but far from the top!
Can she keep her current job and run?
She sounds decently qualified, and Hinds county voters only elect the most incompetent candidates, so I don't think she'll win.
@10:17 well if there is a chief and deputy chief, I think logically that would put her as third from the top (top being DA).
The word 'transparency' is today the most popular term used in every political discussion. All citizens claim there is none and all politicians promise it, if elected.
I'm interesting in prosecuting cases as rapidly as humanly possible. That doesn't involve transparency. A prosecutor cannot deliver transparency and, in fact, should neither promise it nor attempt to deliver it.
The word should not even appear in the job description. That's why it doesn't. And any candidate for a prosecutorial role who promises it should be put on the bottom of your list.
No thanks!
Trained by Robert Smith and Jody Owens. What more could we want?
Integrity? Give me a break.
It's neck-and-neck with "affordability."
She is praying that he doesn't. :)
Explains as the AstroTurf Jackson Jambalaya comments in all these threads.
She has my vote!
No shock as you voted for Biden.
No thanks, she doesn’t emails and keeps our dockets so far behind hinds county will never catch up. Offers a client his first plea deal the night before the verdict because she didn’t have what she needed to win. Seriously KICK ROCKS. You’d think with all the money they are probably stealing she’d get that underbite fixed.
You left out that the deputy chief is deputy to the chief TO THE ASSISTANT (and of course there are several assistants). So maybe third to one of the several seconds?
Hands down the best candidate.
All these Jody and RSS comments, how else does someone get prepared for this job than trying over 100 cases right here in hinds?
A JOKE….that girl was so far up Jody’s butt… yeah sure, vote for Gwen if you want Jody 2.0.
This is what you should have said. When elected I will send my entire staff to Madison County to see and work with them, to learn, what they are doing to keep their Community safe.
Also you must hire more investigators in order to get these cases through the system.
Leaving Jody's conviction aside for the moment, his office was light years ahead of RSS in prosecuting cases. Relations are much better with law enforcement. Blame the judges for the dockets moving slowly. Trust me, the prosecutors get just as frustrated as you do.
Best prosecutor in the state!
Is 11:21am saying grass root support for KF and comments in Jackson Jambalaya are plastic/artificial/contrived "AstroTurf"?
KF, who does a lot of hands on quality reporting, welcomes both insight and jackassery in the comment section, so very little space for plastic grass to grow.
Wait a minute. Did I read this correctly? The Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney publicly stated that her office is not communicating with victims and is asking Hinds County to vote for her? Pass
Gwen Ago was the attorney on the case where my brother was killed. She was so incredibly rude. She will NOT have our vote!
If you want a Hinds DA who’s aggressive and tough on crime, Gwen is absolutely the choice
I remember when Gwen tried that case up in Oxford. When she came back to Jackson she badmouthed the Oxford DA who hired her for the case all over town. Integrity? She ain't got none.
been there a decade, admitting they lose evidence and ignore victims, and her campaign pitch is 'Vote for me, I'm already part of the problem'?"
@2:46
What are you on? She was asked to lend her experience to another office for a tough case. That DA is now one of her biggest proponents. She has never said a bad word. They talk several times a week
The last two outsiders, Jody Owens, Robert Smith, worked out great.
She is the only one who issued a press release.
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