U.S. Northern District Court Judge Sharion Aycock returned Tuesday to Mississippi State for the Morris Collins Speaker Series at Mitchell Memorial Library. The university alumna and Itawamba County native is the state's first female federal judge. Aycock, here with Stennis Institute of Government director Marty Wiseman, traced her career path that took the 1977 economics graduate through law school to private and public practice and a circuit judgeship to a federal bench appointment in 2007.