Tate Reeves was elected as Mississippi’s fifty-third Treasurer on November 4, 2003 and re-elected to a second term in 2007 with the highest percentage (61%) of any candidate running for statewide office. He is the first Republican treasurer in the state’s history. Tate is a Rankin County native and a graduate of Florence High School. He is an honors graduate of Millsaps College and holds a bachelor’s degree in economics. While at Millsaps, he played point guard for the Millsaps Majors basketball team. Tate has continued to be an active alumnus and remains involved with his alma mater by serving as a member of the investment policy board for the Millsaps College General Louis Wilson Fund and a member the Advisory Committee of the Else School of Management.
Prior to becoming Treasurer, Tate was a member of the Trustmark Investment Strategy Committee and served as an Assistant Vice President for AmSouth. He holds the
Chartered Financial Analyst designation (CFA). Tate is also a member of the CFA
Society of Mississippi and is a member of the CFA Institute, an organization that leads the investment industry by setting the highest standards of ethics and professional
excellence. In 1996, he was the recipient of the Mississippi Society of Financial Analysts Award.
Tate served as president of the National Association of State Treasurers for 2006-2007.
He has continued to remain very active in the association by serving as Chairman of the
Federal Legislative Committee, Chairman of the Long Range Planning Committee and as
a member of the NAST Executive Committee. He is also a member of the 2009 Executive Board of the College Savings Plans Network. In addition, Tate serves on the Board of Trustees for the Public Employees Retirement System, as well as the
Chairman of the Board of Directors of College Savings Plans of Mississippi and the Mississippi Health Care Trust Fund.
Tate was recently elected by his peers to serve as President of the Mississippi Republican Elected Officials Association. Furthermore, he was recently named as one of forty-two national “Rising Star(s) in the Republican Party” by Rising Tide magazine – the publication of the Republican National Committee. In December 2008, he was selected by the Aspen Institute’s Rodel Fellowships in Public Leadership as one of their “Top Young Elected Officials” to its Fourth Class of Aspen-Rodel Fellows.
Tate and his wife Elee Williams Reeves, a Tylertown native, are the proud parents of their two daughters, Sarah Tyler and Elizabeth Magee. Currently, the Reeves family attends Galloway Memorial United Methodist Church, where Elee and Tate served as co-chairman of the most recent Capital Campaign. They have been very committed to many civic and charitable organizations in Mississippi – including the Mississippi Society of Disabilities, UMC Children’s Cancer Clinic, Middle Mississippi Girl Scout Council, Boys & Girls Club of Mississippi, the YMCA, the United Way, Stewpot Ministries, the Exchange Club Parent Child Center, and the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra.
