Ex parte Crawford

DONALDSON, Judge.

Bridges Barkley Crawford (“the wife”) has petitioned this court , for a writ of mandamus directing Judge Gilbert Self, circuit judge of the Lauderdale Circuit Court (“the trial court”), to grant her June 22, 2016, motion requesting Judge Self to recuse himself from further presiding over the underlying divorce case between her and Andrew Martin Crawford (“the husband"). The wife contends that, because Judge Self received an ex parte communication concerning the parties from Dr. Janet Womack, the superintendent of the Florence City School System and a non-party to the…