{"id":837,"date":"2024-08-15T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msgop.org\/?p=837"},"modified":"2024-11-03T20:58:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T20:58:04","slug":"mississippi-republican-party-announces-new-staff-and-leadership-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msgop.org\/?p=837","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi Republican Party Announces New Staff and Leadership Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jackson, MS \u2013 Mike Hurst, Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party,<br>announced today that the MSGOP\u2019s State Central Committee recently confirmed new staff<br>and leadership team members for the MSGOP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New MSGOP Vice-Chairwoman Lesley Davis is the Founder and President of<br>Mississippi Advocacy Group, LLC, a public policy and governmental affairs firm. She<br>previously served as the Interim CEO and President of the Mississippi Center for Public<br>Policy. Lesley has been recognized as one of the Top 50 Most Influential Mississippians, a<br>2023 Rankin County Republican Woman Leader of the Year, awards from the Mississippi<br>Federation of Republican Women for her legislative work, and the sole recipient of the<br>national 2022 Delta Gamma Leadership Shield Award. She received her law degree from The<br>University of Baltimore School of Law, and afterwards served as a law clerk to the<br>Honorable Arlin M. Adams, United States Office of Independent Counsel in Washington<br>D.C., and was subsequently hired as a Staff Associate Prosecuting Attorney in the<br>Independent Counsel\u2019s Office. She later worked as a partner in a Baltimore law firm. She<br>received her undergraduate degree from Mississippi State University, where she served as<br>Executive Director of the College Republicans, President of the Pre-Law Society, Student<br>Association Attorney General, and MSU Director for future U.S. Senator Trent Lott\u2019s first<br>senatorial campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New MSGOP Treasurer Spencer Ritchie is a lawyer with Forman Watkins in<br>Jackson, Mississippi. As a former Executive Director of the Mississippi Republican Party,<br>Spencer brings great wisdom and experience to his new role. A graduate of the University of<br>Mississippi School of Law as well as an undergraduate degree from Texas Tech University,<br>Ritchie previously worked on Capitol Hill for a U.S. Congressman and also clerked for two<br>federal judges. He is a former member of the Mississippi Ethics Commission, as well as the<br>Mississippi Secretary of State Election Law Reform Study Group and the Board of Advisors<br>for the United States Election Assistance Commission, serves on the Advisory Council of<br>Downtown Jackson Partners, is the Chairman of the Hinds County Republican Party<br>Executive Committee, and served in 2019 and 2023 as Hinds County Co-Chair for Tate<br>Reeves for Governor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Contact: Rance Bilbo (ED@msgop.org) or Ty Martin (Ty@msgop.org)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jackson, MS \u2013 Mike Hurst, Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party,announced today that the MSGOP\u2019s State Central Committee recently confirmed new staffand leadership team members for the MSGOP. New MSGOP Vice-Chairwoman Lesley Davis is the Founder and President ofMississippi Advocacy Group, LLC, a public policy and governmental affairs firm. 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