Warren County’s constables have made history.

During the summer meeting of the Mississippi Constables Association, all of the county’s constables were elected to leadership positions with the group.

North District Constable Glenn McKay was elected president, and South District Constable John Heggins was elected secretary/treasurer. Central District Constable Troy Kimble was also elected to the board of directors.

This is the first time since the group association’s founding that a single county has had so many members of the leadership.

“This is very unusual,” said Heggins, who has served as secretary/treasurer of the association for more than a decade.

It’s something that the association thought would never happen, said McKay, who is entering his ninth non-consecutive year as president. It was unusually enough for both he and Heggins to be elected to leadership roles.

“They said it would never happen again,” McKay said.

Both McKay and Heggins first took office as constables in 1984. Kimble, who is also a Vicksburg police sergeant, was appointed in January to fill the seat left vacant after the death of Randy Naylor.

“It means a lot for them to get me on board as far as this side of law enforcement,” said Kimble of the mentorship of the two long-time constables.

The association is responsible for lobbying the legislature and ensuring that the state’s 198 constables complete 10 hours of training each year.

“We have to keep up with all of that for the state,” Heggins said.

Kimble was unanimously elected to the board of directors after the county’s two other constables introduced him to the association and told them about training he could offer, McKay said.

Constables are the primary officers of justice court. They are bailiffs for the court and serve both civil and criminal paperwork, earning $35 for each set of papers served.

“We don’t make anything unless we work,” Heggins said.

A pay raise will be one of the one of the proposals the association presents to the legislature, McKay said.

“I’m sure that’s going to be one of our top agenda items,” he said.

In Mississippi, constables have essentially no budget and must provide their own vehicles and equipment. Yet, the professionalism of the group has impressed Kimble.

“To have to do it on our own says a lot for a lot of people,” Kimble said.

Kimble also said he would seek to retain his seat in a Nov. 4 special election. As of Friday, neither he nor any other candidate had filed paperwork with the Circuit Clerk’s Office to enter the election.

The winner of the election will be up for election again in the 2015 regular state/county voting cycle.