Marsha is a licensed real estate broker and owner of Southern Realty and Management Company since 1989. Among her other service activities she has served on the executive board of the Monroe County Chamber of Commerce, a board member and past vice president of Safe Haven (a shelter for child abuse victims), former co-chair of the Aberdeen Miss Hospitality pageant, and is a charter member of the Monroe County Arts Council. She has two children and four grandchildren.

    Jo Ann, until retirement last year, was, for thirty years, the news editor of the family-owned weekly, The Calhoun County Journal. She is a native of Macon, MS. She is on the advisory Board of Directors of Merchants and Farmer's Bank, and a member of the Bruce Chamber of Commerce. She is a recipient of the Daughters of the American Revolution Community Service Award. She, and her husband Gale, have three daughters and seven grandchildren. She was the first woman in the district to become a Rotarian.

    Keith is the Associate Vice President for Development for the Delta State University Foundation. Prior to that time he taught and held other administrative duties at Biloxi and Vicksburg. He is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Millsaps College Principals' Institute, a member of the American Cancer Society's "Relay for Life" Committee, and a member of the Cleveland-Bolivar Chamber of Commerce. Keith and his wife, Anne, have one son.

    Tom is presently Senior Vice President of the Financial Federal Savings Bank in Memphis. He has served on the local Memphis advisory Board of the Memphis Salvation Army from 1998 through 2001. He is a native of Shelby County. He is married, and he and his wife, Andrea, have one daughter .A Pail Harris fellow, he believes in the tenets of Rotary, and enjoys the fellowship of the gathering and the opportunity to serve the local community and the world.


    Michelle D. Easterling is a 1991 graduate of Bay High School in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.  She attended Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, where she received a BA in English, with a minor in sociology, and graduated Magna Cum Laude. She attended the University Of Mississippi School Of Law and received her juris doctor in May, 1998. 
    Michelle is a member of the American Bar Association, the Mississippi Bar Association, and the Clay County Bar Association, and has served on the Child Advocacy Committee, Seminars is also a member of the Northeast Mississippi Women Lawyers association. 
    A member of Rotary since 1999, she served as the president of the West Point Rotary Club in 2002-2003, the District 6800 Chair of the Family of Rotary Committee. Michelle serves on the Board of Directors of the Clay County Economic Development Corporation and has served on the Mississippi University for Women Paralegal Advisory Board since 1998. 
    Michelle is married to Dr. Thomas G. Easterling, III, of Alexandria, Louisiana, and has one son, Grayson.  She is a member of the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation in West Point where she serves as a lay Eucharistic minister and a lector.

    Doug Gordon is a native Memphian who attended the University of Memphis graduating with a B.A. in Political Science in 1974 and a B.B.A in Accountancy in 1978. He has been a CPA for 24 years and practices with his wife, Maureen, in Cordova Tennessee as Gordon & Associates CPA P.C. The couple lives in Eads, Tennessee and has three children Bryan (23) Barry (21) and Nikki (17). Doug has been involved with the Rotary Club of Memphis East since 1990 and is a Paul Harris Fellow. When not working or enjoying Rotary service, he pursues interests in golf, fishing, gardening and cooking.                       

    Jennie Whitfield Hibbard is a native of Corinth, MS. She attended the University of Mississippi and received her BBA in Management in 1988. Upon graduation, she returned home and went to work in the family business, Whitfield Nursing Home, Inc. After passing the National Boards for Nursing Home Administrators in July of 1989, she took over as Administrator of Whitfield Nursing Home. Jennie joined Rotary in August of 1992 after her uncle introduced her to Rotarian service. She later became the first woman President of the Corinth Rotary Club and a Paul Harris Fellow. She previously served as Assistant District Governor from 1999 to 2001 and now has once again joined the District Team.
    Jennie is married to Jack Hibbard, U. S. Navy Retired, and they have one daughter, Jacqueline. She is past President of the Little Garden Club, a past board member of Corinth Theater Arts, a member of the Twentieth Century Study, and presently serves on the Corinth Area Arts Council. During her spare time, she teaches aerobics at the Sportsplex three nights a week, she is an ACE Certified Fitness Instructor.

    Samuel Morris was born in Batesville, MS and raised in St. Louis, MO attending school there. He graduated from Harris-Stowe State College in 1981 with a BS degree and went on to Logan College of Chiropractic in Chesterfield, MO. After Sam graduated in 1990 as a Doctor of Chiropractic, he returned to MS. He now has 2 clinics, one in Senatobia the other in Sardis.
Sam retired from the Missouri Air National Guard in 1998. During his military career he rose to the rank of MSGT and was elected as the 1996 Non-Commissioned Officer of the year.
    He has served as Rotary President 2001-2002, member of the board of the Tate County Literacy Council and presently serves on the board of H.O.P.E. Ministries. He attends Concord Missionary Baptist Church where he has served as Sunday School Superintendent. Sam resides in Sardis with his wife, Leah, and they have a son, Justin, who lives in Mobile, AL.
 
    Bryan Shaver was born In Nashville, Tennessee. Brian is the seventh child of eight children. He is a graduate of The University of Memphis with a Degree in Business. He is currently the Life and Health Manager for Brown and Haynes Insurance. He is married to the former Stephanie Cummings of Hattiesburg Mississippi. Bryan and Stephanie have two children Hayley 8 and Katie 6. Bryan is active in numerous organizations. He is currently on the Board of Directors for the DeSoto Economic Council, Chairman of the Catholic Diocese of Jackson School Board and a member of the Southaven, Horn Lake and Olive Branch Chamber of Commerce. He is a Paul Harris Fellow as well as Past President of the Southaven Rotary Club.

    C.L. is a native of Choctaw County, Mississippi who has lived in Batesville, Mississippi for the past eight years.  He is a past President of the Batesville Rotary Club and a Paul Harris Fellow.  Stevenson was named citizen of the year by the Batesville Junior Auxiliary in 2001 and has been recognized by the Mississippi Association of School Administrators as the Mississippi Superintendent of the year for 2004.  He has just been elected to the Executive Committee for the American Association of School Administrators.  He is Superintendent of the South Panola School District in Panola County.  He and his wife Ann have three children and eight grandchildren.