Mardis
Mardis is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Elaine Mardis (born 1962), American geneticist *Samuel Wright Mardis (1800–1836), American politician See also * Killing of Jeremy Mardis * Marris Marris is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Charles Allan Marris (1876–1947), New Zealand journalist and editor * Emma Marris (born 1979), American non-fiction writer * Georgia Marris (born 1996), New Zealand swimmer *Rob Marri ...

Elaine Mardis
Elaine R. Mardis (born September 28, 1962) is the co-executive director of the Institute for Genomic Medicine at Nationwide Children's Hospital, where she also serves as the Nationwide Foundation Endowed Chair in Genomic Medicine. She also is professor of pediatrics at the Ohio State University College of Medicine. Mardis’s research focuses on the genomic characterization of cancer and its implications for cancer medicine. She was part of the team that reported the first next-generation-based sequencing of a whole cancer genome, and participated extensively in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and the Pediatric Cancer Genome Project (PCGP). Biography Mardis was born in North Platte, Nebraska. She gained a passion for science at an early age, and credits her father, a chemistry professor for more than 30 years, for nurturing this passion. She received her undergraduate degree in Zoology from the University of Oklahoma in 1984. During her senior year she took a course in biochemistr ...
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Killing Of Jeremy Mardis
On November 3, 2015, Jeremy Mardis, a six-year-old boy, was killed by police in Marksville, Louisiana, in a shooting that also wounded his father, Chris Few. Two Marksville law enforcement officers, Derrick Stafford and Norris Greenhouse Jr., were arrested on charges of second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder as a result of the incident. The evidence from a police body-worn video camera was cited as being contributory to the speed of the arrests. On March 24, 2017, Stafford was found guilty on the lesser-included offenses of manslaughter and attempted manslaughter. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison, with the possibility of parole after 20 years. On September 29, 2017, Greenhouse pleaded guilty to negligent homicide and malfeasance in office. He was sentenced to 7 years in prison, but was paroled in 2019 after serving years, a quarter of his initial sentence. Background Marksville is a small city with a population of 5,702 at the 20 ...
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Samuel Wright Mardis
Samuel Wright Mardis (June 12, 1800 – November 14, 1836) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama. He was born on June 12, 1800, in Fayetteville, Tennessee. He received academic training, attended an "old field school", and studied law. He was admitted to the bar association, bar, and he commenced practice in Montevallo, Alabama in 1823. From 1823 to 1825, in 1828, and in 1830, he was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives. He was elected as a Jacksonian Democrats, Jacksonian to the Twenty-second United States Congress, Twenty-second and Twenty-third United States Congress, Twenty-third Congresses. He served from March 4, 1831, to March 3, 1835. In 1835, he moved to Mardisville, Alabama in Talladega County, Alabama, Talladega County and continued the practice of law. He died in Talladega, Alabama on November 14, 1836. He was burial, interred in Oak Hill Cemetery. Notes References

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