From left, Circuit Court judges Jim Kitchens, Lee Howard and Lee Coleman took their oaths of office Tuesday morning during a brief ceremony at the Oktibbeha County Courthouse Annex on West Main Street. The three judges, who serve Oktibbeha, Clay, Lowndes and Noxubee counties, will begin work hearing cases in the next few weeks. More about the changes to the Circuit Court system will be published in another story later this week in the Starkville Daily News.