Tuesday, January 4, 2022

Governor Appoints New Parole Board Chairman

 Governor Tate Reeves issued the following statement. 

Governor Tate Reeves today announced the appointment of Jeffery Belk as Chairman of the State Parole Board effective January 1, 2022. Belk will replace Steven Pickett who retired on December 31, 2021. 

"Jeffery's experience in both the public and private sector makes him a prime candidate to serve as Chairman of the State Parole Board,” said Governor Tate Reeves. “I look forward to seeing Jeffery’s efficient and effective management of the Board and thank him for stepping up to serve Mississippians.” 

Prior to Belk's appointment to the State Parole Board, he retired from Chevron as Project Procurement Manager and currently works on various projects as a consultant. Belk has served as Vice Chairman of the Personal Service Contract Review Board and Chairman of the Public Procurement Board. He is actively involved in the community as a member and past President of the Singing River Hospital System Board of Trustees, and member of the Chevron Federal Credit Union Advisory Council. Jeffery is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi where he obtained a Bachelor of Science Business Administration in marketing. Additionally, he achieved a Certificate in Supply Chain Management from Arizona State University.

11 comments:

Quid Pro Quo said...

Lots of criminal justice experience....or maybe not.

Anonymous said...

Member of Singing River Board of Trustees. Ha. Same group that said oops, yalls pension is gone. No sure what happened. Sorry! He should be great as chief of parole decisions. The whole Singing River board should be under the prison.

Anonymous said...

No telling what the county supervisors and the hospital board donated to state political candidates to stay out of the cross hairs on the singing river pension fiasco. This is Mississippi justice at its finest.

Anonymous said...

Can you say tit for tat? Or tit for Tate?

Coastal voters, wake up.

Anonymous said...

I hope he considers victims of crimes more than he considers potential employers.

Anonymous said...

Wow

Anonymous said...

This guy is definitely qualified, just not for Chairman of the Parole Board. Is this one of Phil Bryant's cronies?

Anonymous said...

President of Singing River Board of Trustees. Ask any former employee of Singing River about their pension and you'll conclude the board of trustees should be under the jail.

Anonymous said...

Jeffrey Belk is a great appointment by Gov. Reeves. Belk has been part of the clean-up at Singing River, so he has earned our thanks for working to improve what was a very bad situation. Singing River Hospital is now doing much better, continues to improve and serve Jackson County, and Belk has been a large part of the solution.
Knowing what I do of the previous regime, I suspect that Belk is entering similar territory at the Parole Board. Taxpayers can only hope that he's able to restore the Parole Board to its pre-Pheeellll status.
Kingfish, this is one to keep an eye on.

Anonymous said...

At least it wasn't Crisler.

Anonymous said...

I am skeptical of all MS political appointments, but I hope he proves 10:50 right.


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