Phil Bryant is the sixty-fourth governor of Mississippi. Previously he served as lieutenant governor and state auditor and as a member of the state legislature. He is a former law enforcement officer and adjunct professor of American government at Mississippi College.

Bill Wilson is a transplanted Alabama native and has been a proud Mississippian for fifty of his fifty-seven years. He has been a working artist for the past thirty years and spent three years as artist-in-residence at the Mississippi Governor’s Mansion.