MS HR191

Recognizes and commends Dr. Cindy Ayers Elliott for being named USA TODAY's 2023 Woman of the Year honoree for Mississippi

Dr. Ayers Elliott is CEO of Foot Print Farms, a 68-acre specialty crops, vegetables, and livestock farm in Jackson focused on agri-tourism and community development

Previously worked as a New York investment banker and served five years as CEO for Delta Foundation in economic development in the Mississippi Delta

Received numerous awards including Mississippi Business Journal Top 50 Businesswomen, Outstanding Minority Business of Central Mississippi (2014), and was elected Chairman of Hinds County Soil and Water Conservation District in September 2014

Directs copies of the resolution be furnished to Dr. Ayers Elliott and the Capitol Press Corps