Phil Bryant served as the sixty-fourth governor of Mississippi after serving as lieutenant governor, state auditor, and as a member of the state legislature. He is also a former law enforcement officer and adjunct professor of American government at Mississippi College. Deborah Bryant was first lady of Mississippi. She is the director of community development for Community Bank and formerly worked in quality and performance improvement at St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson. 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.