Justice Graves is currently a Fellow of the Mississippi State Bar, and has served on a variety of committees of the National Conferenceof State Trial Judges, working on issues of concern common to state judges.
The UTC was released in 2000 after six years of work by the National Conferenceof Commissioners on Uniform State Laws--a group of lawyers, judges, legislators and law professors that makes recommendations to the states on statutes covering such areas as contracts and family matters.