Editing Judge Mathis (section)

== Bailiffs and supporting roles ==
''Judge Mathis''{{'}}s final bailiff, Doyle Devereux had been with the program for most of its series run, since January 2003, midway into the court show's 4th season.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0222391/|title=Doyle Devereux|website=[[IMDb]]|access-date=July 5, 2021}}</ref> It was revealed in an ''[[Hour Detroit]]'' news publication that Devereux was never a real-life bailiff, however, rather an actor cast by the program to play the role of one. In Doyle's words, "The show is real, the cases are real, you guys are real. If there’s something that could be a little fake about this show, it’s me."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hourdetroit.com/community/still-in-session-2/|title=Still in session|date=17 September 2014 |access-date=5 July 2021}}</ref>

Before Devereux, Kevin Lingle was the court show's bailiff for a short duration during the show's 4th season as well.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YX_daEhlnbsC&dq=what+happened+to+second+bailiff+on+Judge+Mathis&pg=PA547|title=Encyclopedia of television shows, 1925 to 2010|isbn=9780786486410|access-date=July 5, 2021|last1=Terrace|first1=Vincent|date=10 January 2014|publisher=McFarland }}</ref>

The court show's first bailiff, Brendan Anthony Moran, died on December 19, 2002, after he fell to his death from the balcony of his 24th-floor Chicago condo. His death was ruled a suicide, although Mathis and Moran's family thought differently.<ref>{{cite web|author=PERNELL WATSON Daily Press |url=https://www.dailypress.com/2003/07/26/bailiff-on-mathis-killed-in-fall/ |title=Bailiff On 'Mathis' Killed in Fall – Daily Press |publisher=Articles.dailypress.com |date=26 July 2003 |access-date=9 September 2013}}</ref>

In the first season of the ''Judge Mathis'' show, Leslie Merrill, a former news anchor for WPGH Pittsburgh became the show's court reporter. Her role was to interview the litigants after Judge Mathis passed judgment and rendered his verdict on each case.<ref name="old.post-gazette.com 1999">{{cite web | title=Tuned In: Jeannie, Jenny and judges among changes in daytime and late-night TV | website=old.post-gazette.com | date=1999-08-26 | url=http://old.post-gazette.com/tv/19990826owen.asp | access-date=2020-04-29}}</ref> She left the show after season 1. For the remainder of  the series' run, ''Judge Mathis'' did not have a court reporter.