Bob Lyle

Special Advisor to the President

In 1989, Bob joined Dick Molpus on the staff at the Mississippi Secretary of State’s office, where his duties included assisting approximately ninety school districts with management of more than 600,000 acres of public trust school lands. He served as Assistant Secretary of State until 1993. He then joined the Molpus gubernatorial campaign as its finance director until December of 1995. Bob then served as executive assistant and legal counsel for Mississippi’s Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce until he joined The Molpus Company in July 1996.

Bob is a longtime member of the board of directors of PriorityOne Bank, where he serves on the Executive and Compensation Committees. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Mississippi Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, serving as its Vice Chairman, is a former member of the Board of Directors of the National Alliance of Forest Owners, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of Millsaps College. Additionally, he is a board member of “We Care” Food and Clothing ministry serving as its chairman in Scott county. He is also a member of the American and Mississippi Bar Associations.

Bob is a graduate of Millsaps College (BBA 1979) and Mississippi College School of Law (JD 1988). Prior to attending law school, Bob worked as an independent insurance agent and a real estate broker, and he currently holds real estate broker licenses in thirteen states.

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