Michael Wayne Jackson[1] (born November 18, 1963, in Fayetteville, Tennessee) is an American attorney.
He received his undergraduate degree at Centre College with a double major in economics/management and government in 1985.
He received his Juris Doctor in 1988 from Florida State University College of Law.
In 2004, he became the first African American district attorney elected to the 4th Judicial Circuit.
At that time, he was only the second African American to serve as district attorney in Alabama.