Mark Leggett Named President of Mississippi Poultry Association
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Bob Billingsley,
MPA Chairman
601- 649-4030
bbillingsley@sandersonfarms.com
The Mississippi Poultry Association has named Mark Leggett as President of the association effective September 1.
Leggett will replace Mike Pepper, who now leads the Mississippi Road Builders Association. The MPA, formed in 1937, represents the state’s number one agricultural commodity with an economic impact of $2.5 billion according to Mississippi State University.
“We know Mark will provide the strong voice this association has been known for in representing the state’s poultry industry and its 47,000 direct and related jobs,” said Bob Billingsley, Sanderson Farms’ director of development, and the association’s chairman of the Board.
Leggett comes from the Mississippi Manufacturers Association where he has been director of Government Affairs for 13 years. Prior to joining MMA he worked for 10 years for the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal with seven of those years as Capitol correspondent for the Tupelo newspaper. After earning a bachelor’s degree at the University of Southern Mississippi, he pursued graduate work while working in the USM Public Relations Office.
Leggett and his wife, Cathy, live in Clinton and have two grown children, Adam, a legislative aide to U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, and Rachel King, a nursing student at University Medical Center.
About MPA: Founded in 1937, the Association’s membership includes poultry and egg companies, grower/producers on farms across the state, and many businesses that support the industry. Poultry is the largest agricultural commodity in Mississippi, whose farms and firms provide 10 percent of the nation’s poultry products. To learn more about Mississippi poultry, visit www.mspoultry.org