Reuben Anderson
Attorney and Partner
Phelps Dunbar, LLP
Jackson, Mississippi

Harris Brumfield
President
Trading Technologies, Inc.
Chicago, Illinois

Isaac Byrd
Attorney and Principal
Byrd Law Firm
Indianola, Mississippi

Fred Carl, Jr.
President and CEO
Viking Range Corporation
Greenwood, Mississippi

Eugene R. Dattel
Author and Retired Investment Banker
New York, New York

Henry Juszkiewicz
CEO, Gibson Guitar Corporation
Nashville, Tennessee

Jimmy Lear
Former President
Maxwell Cotton Company
Indianola, Mississippi

Bill Luckett
Attorney and Principal
Luckett Tyner Law Firm, P.A
Clarksdale, Mississippi

Victor McTeer
Attorney and Principal
McTeer and Associates
Greenville, Mississippi

Dorothy Moore
Rhythm and Blues/Gospel Musician
Jackson, Mississippi

Bonnie Raitt
Grammy-winning
recording artist and
accomplished songwriter
Los Angeles, California

Jessie Robinson
Blues and Jazz guitarist
and songwriter
Jackson, Mississippi

Steven G. Rogers
President and CEO,
Parkway Properties, Inc.
Jackson, Mississippi

William Winter
Former Governor
of the State of Mississippi

Dick Waterman
Blues Photographer,
Author, Historian
Oxford, Mississippi