Representative, Mississippi State House of Representatives, District 58, 2016-2024

Candidate, Mississippi State House of Representatives, District 58, 2019

Former Member, Education Committee, Mississippi State House of Representatives

Former Vice Chair, Medicaid Committee, Mississippi State House of Representatives

Former Member, Municipalities Committee, Mississippi State House of Representatives

Former Member, Public Property Committee, Mississippi State House of Representatives

Former Member, Technology Committee, Mississippi State House of Representatives

President, Próspera, 2021-present

Served, Mississippi Air National Guard

Founder/Chief Executive Officer, Bomgar Corporation, 2003-2015

Member, Redeemer Presbyterian Church, present

Member, Redeemer Presbyterian Church, present

Former Steering Council Member, Blueprint Mississippi, Mississippi Economic Council

Former Member, Board of Trustees, Belhaven University

Former Advisory Board Member, Madison County Business League and Foundation

Former Board Member, Madison County Foundation

Awards:

Air Force Achievement Medal and the Air Force Commendation Medal

Visionary Leadership Award from the Madison County Economic Development Authority and the Madison County Business League

Favorite Quote:

"It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." - George Washington

"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave." - Elmer Davis

"God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?" - Thomas Jefferson

"When government enters the field of business with its great resources, it has a tendency to extravagance and inefficiency, but, having the power to crush all competitors, likewise closes the door of opportunity and results in monopoly." - Calvin Coolidge

"There isn't any problem we can't solve if government will give us the facts. Tell us what needs to be done. Then, get out of the way and let us have at it." - Ronald Wilson Reagan

"Done is better than perfect." - Facebook Motto

"People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things." - Steve Jobs

"Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life." - Jim Collins

"Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice and discipline." - Jim Collins

"For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work." - Jim Collins

"The good-to-great leaders never wanted to become larger-than-life heroes. They were seemingly ordinary people quietly producing extraordinary results." - Jim Collins