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State Director Kenya Collins
Started on the campaign as a full time volunteer leader in 2011. State director of Students 4 DuPree and special events manager for the Johnny DuPree for Governor campaign, 2011. Web and public relations coordinator for the Jackson Convention & Visitors Bureau, 2006-09. Volunteered on Obama's 2008 campaign. B.S. in elementary education from Jackson State University. From Jackson, MS.
Five regions and 11 regional leads. Focus was calls and trips to
Florida.
Mississippi Democratic Party
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Chairman Rickey Cole
(elected chairman June 30, 2012; started in early
Sept. 2012 at the close of the Democratic National Convention)
Executive director of the party under chairman Jamie Franks, announced
Aug. 29, 2011. Farmer;
family
farm
near
Ovett.
Candidate
for
Commissioner
of
Agriculture
and
Commerce
in
2007.
Founding
President of Mississippi Policy Forum, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit.
Elected chairman of the Democratic Party of Mississippi on Aug. 18,
2001 and served until July 29, 2004. Volunteer, activist and
staffer on more than twenty political campaigns starting in 1982
including Guy Land for Treasurer in 1987 and Wayne Dowdy for U.S.
Senate
in 1988. Attended Mississippi State University, 1984-87;
president of the Young Democrats at Mississippi State
University in 1985. A seventh generation Mississippian; native of
Jones County.
note:
Jamie Franks, elected July
2008, served as chairman to early Sept. 2012...
Partner at Wheeler
& Franks Law Firm, P.C. and ShawnCoulson,
LLP, a member of the ShawnCoulson Alliance. Democratic nominee
for Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi, 2007. Member of
Mississippi House of Representatives, 1996-2008. J.D. from
Mississippi College School of Law, 2000; B.A. from University of
Mississippi, 1995.