---
type: Person
title: "Derrick Simmons"
description: "MS Senate District 12 — MS State Senate District 12"
role: "MS Senate District 12"
party: "D"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "MS"
district: "MS State Senate District 12"
represents: "us/states/ms/districts/senate/12"
tenure:
  start: "2011-03-11"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "c7761f50-4543-4d52-bdfb-56cf89372525"
  office: "80ad1825-3f2f-4045-b93a-48084d23b4c7"
  tenure: "128b846a-d0bd-4e6f-8a1a-a32bb66177a2"
  jurisdiction: "cfb5b8ee-0eee-4217-96e7-8be272476612"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "SLDU (Census 2025)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, ms]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# Derrick Simmons

Current MS Senate District 12 (MS State Senate District 12).

Represents [MS State Senate District 12](/us/states/ms/districts/senate/12.md).

## Sources

- tenure: OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20
- jurisdiction: SLDU (Census 2025)

Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).