Leadership & Staff
Donald Summers
Professor of Physics, University Of Mississippi
Willie Morris
Harper's Magazine Editor
Jesse L White Jr
Executive Director of the Southern Growth Policies Board
William Bynum
President and CEO, Hope Enterprise Corporations/Hope Credit Union, Jackson, MS
Daniel W Jones
Chancellor, University of Mississippi
R Gerald Turner
President, SMU
Board Members
Charles L Overby
Chairman and CEO of the Freedom Forum/Newseum
Donors
ExxonMobil Foundation
ExxonMobil's charity giving foundation
Child Organizations
University of Mississippi Law School
The fourth state-supported law school in the US
Memberships
Joshua Holdenried
Council on Public University Reform; executive director of Napa Legal
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)
Taylor B McNeel
Trump nominee to serve as Judge on the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi
Cory T Wilson
Trump nominee to serve as Circuit Judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; withdrawn May 2020
Ramsey Coats Day
Trump nominee to be an Assistant Administrator (Bureau for Africa) of the US Agency for International Development
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BA
John M Green
Crossroads Strategies - Oxford Mississippi
Hank M Bounds
President, University of Nebraska; former Commissioner of Higher Education, Board of Trustees of Mississippi State Institutions of Higher Learning
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PhD
W Louis Hengen
WestRock
John T Herzog
lobbyist, VP, Government Affairs & Political Strategy - Kimbell and Associates
W Timothy Locke
SVP, Smith-Free Group
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