Leadership & Staff
Mark Klinedinst
Retired professor of Economics, University of Southern Mississippi
Gordon L Nelson
Professor and Dean, Florida Institute of Technology
Bill Bennett
United States Secretary of Education (1985 - 1988); first Drug Czar
Donors
Pioneer Fund
Funds studies of race and intelligence, as well as eugenics
Students
Tony Gonzales
Republican US Representative from Texas
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Student
Jimmy Buffett
Musician, entertainer
Hank M Bounds
President, University of Nebraska; former Commissioner of Higher Education, Board of Trustees of Mississippi State Institutions of Higher Learning
Cindy Hyde-Smith
US Senator from Mississippi, 2018; Republican
John Bryan
Professor of English and Vice Provost for Academic Personnel, University of Cincinnati
Natalie Allen
CNN News Anchor
Mickey Hudson
Chief executive officer of Hudson Inc.
Dean Young
Alabama Tea Party candidate
Robert Abbey
Director of the Bureau of Land Management (Confirmed 8-7-09)