The Levee Board

OUR COMMISSIONERS



The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Levee District is a Constitutional body of the State of Mississippi domiciled in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and is comprised of all or portions of ten Delta counties, namely, DeSoto, Tunica, Coahoma, Sunflower, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Leflore, Humphreys, Holmes, and Yazoo Counties. Each County is represented by one elected Commissioner except the front line counties of Tunica and Coahoma, which are represented by two Commissioners each.



Jimmy Scott   
President    

Quitman County, MS    

Elected in 2013    

Robert Sayle   
Vice President  

DeSoto County, MS     

Elected in 1977    

Ted Winters, Sr.    

Coahoma County, MS    

Elected in 2009    

Craig Brewer, III    

Leflore County, MS    

Elected in 1981    

Alberta Jefferson    

Holmes County, MS    

Elected in 2013    

William Dodd    

Yazoo County, MS    

Elected in 2009    

Ralph Sewell    

Humphreys County, MS    

Elected in 2001    

Sykes Sturdivant    

Tallahatchie County, MS    

Elected in 1993    

Lewis Douglas    

Sunflower County, MS    

Elected in 2014    

Joe Eddie Hawkins    

Tunica County, MS    

Elected in 2021    

Derrick Crawford    

Tunica County, MS    

Elected in 2021     

Otha Williams, III    

Coahoma County, MS    

Elected in 2021     

Bill Sheppard
Chief Engineer

Kimberly B. Easley      
Secretary      

Gaye Williamson    
Treasurer    

John Henson    
Attorney