University of Mississippi

Leadership & Staff

Donald Summers Professor of Physics, University Of Mississippi

• Professor of Physics

Willie Morris Harper's Magazine Editor

• Writer in residence ('80→'91)

Jesse L White Jr Executive Director of the Southern Growth Policies Board

• Faculty member (past)

William Bynum President and CEO, Hope Enterprise Corporations/Hope Credit Union, Jackson, MS

• Board Member, MIND Center

Daniel W Jones Chancellor, University of Mississippi

• Chancellor

R Gerald Turner President, SMU

• Chancellor ('84→'95)

Board Members

Charles L Overby Chairman and CEO of the Freedom Forum/Newseum

• Chairman, Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

Donors

ExxonMobil Foundation ExxonMobil's charity giving foundation

• Donation · 104,063 USD ('11)

Child Organizations

University of Mississippi Law School The fourth state-supported law school in the US

• Child Org

Memberships

National Spectrum Consortium

• Member

Students

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Joshua Holdenried Council on Public University Reform; executive director of Napa Legal

• BA, Public Policy Leadership

Roy Mabus Former Secretary of the U.S. Navy under President Obama (2009-2017); former Governor of Mississippi (1988-1992); Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1994-1996)

• Bachelor's Degree

Taylor B McNeel Trump nominee to serve as Judge on the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

• Bachelor of Business Administration

Cory T Wilson Trump nominee to serve as Circuit Judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; withdrawn May 2020

• Bachelor of Business Administration

Ramsey Coats Day Trump nominee to be an Assistant Administrator (Bureau for Africa) of the US Agency for International Development

• BA

John M Green Crossroads Strategies - Oxford Mississippi

• BA, Public Administration

Hank M Bounds President, University of Nebraska; former Commissioner of Higher Education, Board of Trustees of Mississippi State Institutions of Higher Learning

• PhD

W Louis Hengen WestRock

• Bachelor's Degree

John T Herzog lobbyist, VP, Government Affairs & Political Strategy - Kimbell and Associates

• Bachelor's Degree, Psychology

W Timothy Locke SVP, Smith-Free Group

• BA

Miscellaneous Relationships

GIIRS Fund Rating System for Sustainability, Project of B Lab

• Project*