State auditor to address convention
State Auditor Stacey Pickering will address delegates during a general session the morning of June 19 at the 143rd Annual Convention of the Mississippi Press Association.
A native of Jones County and a seventh-generation Mississippian, Pickering was elected as auditor in 2007 after serving a term in the State Senate representing District 42.
He earned his BA from Samford University and his Master’s from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in 1993.
Prior to serving in the Senate, Pickering was director of government affairs and inside sales manager for Howard Technology Solutions in Laurel.
He is a member of the National State Auditors Association, National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers and Treasurers and the Association of Governmental Accountants.
Stacey and his wife, Whitney, live in Laurel with their four children.
The State Auditor is responsible for auditing all state agencies, county governments, school districts, junior colleges and universities; conducting investigations into abuse of public funds and violations of law; providing best practices for all public offices of regional and local subdivisions of the state, systems of accounting, budgeting and reporting financial facts relating to said offices in conformity with legal requirements and with generally accepted accounting principles; conducting inventory audits of all state property; and validating average daily attendance (ADA) counts in the state’s public schools.