Natchez resident Ruth McWilliams does not mind serving her community, but she thinks four jury summons in the past year-and-a-half was a bit much.

&uot;It’s an inconvenience. It’s not a hardship,&uot;&160;McWilliams said about her high number of summons. &uot;It’s very inconvenient for the people I work with.&uot;

McWilliams served six days on a grand jury in 1999 and spent two days in March going through the jury selection process for county court. She was also summoned last summer and again this month for jury selection in Adams County Circuit.

&uot;I know people that I work with that have never gotten a jury summons,&uot; she said.

As it turns out, McWilliams is not alone in her predicament.

After getting several complaints, the Adams County Circuit Clerk’s office looked into the matter and is now putting measures in place to address the problem, said Circuit Clerk M.L. &uot;Binkey&uot; Vines.

The office discovered it had been using only a small number of its registered voters from which to draw perspective jurors

For an undetermined length of time or reason, the county had been putting only about 5,000 out of 24,519 registered voters in its jury selection wheel, Vines said, adding the office plans to include the entire voter registration list on its jury wheel, starting with the June 2000 term.

&uot;By using our voter registration list of names for our pool, allows us to clean up and purge our voter roll,&uot; Vines said.

Now, whenever family members respond to a jury summons for a relative who is deceased or who no longer lives in the county, the circuit clerk’s office is making it a priority to remove that voter’s name from the rolls, Vines said.

Michael Durr, a teacher at Cathedral, is another local resident who has been called for jury duty a number of times recently. He has already been called twice this year.

&uot;I think it’s a civic duty, but yet it doesn’t need to roll around every two months,&uot; Durr said.