Undergraduate Admissions
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Alden Bennett
Associate Director of Recruitment and Legacy Relations; Jackson-Metro
Phone
601.266.5823
Email: Alden.Bennett@usm.edu
Territory: Legacy Relations, Jackson-Metro (Hinds, Madison, and Rankin counties)
Houston Causby
Admissions Counselor – Campus Visitors, U.S. East
Phone
601.543.8104
Email: Houston.Causby@usm.edu
Territory: Campus Visitors, U.S. East
Carlee Causey
Assistant Director of Campus Tour Experience
Phone
601.543.8842
Email: Carlee.Causey@usm.edu
Territory: Campus Visitors
Devin Chadwick
Admissions Counselor – Transfer students
Phone
601.543.8510
Email: Devin.Chadwick@usm.edu
Territory: All transfer students
Pierre Galloway
Admissions Counselor – Campus Visitors, U.S. West
Phone
601.543.8640
Email: Pierre.Galloway@usm.edu
Territory: Campus Visitors, U.S. West
Reagan Holder
Admissions Counselor – Louisiana & Texas; North Mississippi, North Alabama, & Tennessee
Phone
601.543.8956
Email: Reagan.Holder@usm.edu
Territory: Louisiana; Texas; North Mississippi (Alcorn, Benton, Coahoma, DeSoto, Itawamba, Lafayette,
Lee, Marshall, Panola, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Quitman, Tate, Tippah, Tishomingo, Tunica,
and Union counties); North Alabama (Blount, Colbert, Cullman, De Kalb, Franklin, Jackson,
Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Marion, Marshall, Morgan, and Winston counties);
Tennessee
Petra Marlin
Director of International Recruitment and Admissions
Phone
601.266.5672
Email: Petra.Marlin@usm.edu
Territory: International
Walker Mattox
Admissions Counselor – East Mississippi & Central Alabama
Phone
601.543.7468
Email: Walker.Mattox@usm.edu
Territory: East Mississippi (Attala, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, Kemper, Lauderdale, Leake,
Lowndes, Monroe, Neshoba, Newton, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Scott, Webster, and Winston
counties); Central Alabama (Autauga, Bibb, Butler, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton, Cochtaw,
Clay, Cleburne, Dallas, Elmore, Etowah, Fayette, Greene, Hale, Jefferson, Lamar, Lowndes,
Marengo, Montgomery, Perry, Pickens, Randolph, Shelby, St Clair, Sumter, Talladega,
Tuscaloosa, and Walker counties)
Kanesha McInnis
Admissions Counselor – West MS
Phone
601.543.7112
Email: Kanesha.McInnis@usm.edu
Territory: Southwest Mississippi (Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Jefferson
Davis, Lawrence, Lincoln, Pike, Walthall, Warren, and Wilkinson counties); Mississippi
Delta (Bolivar, Carroll, Grenada, Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena, Leflore, Montgomery,
Sharkey, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, Washington, Yalobusha, and Yazoo counties)
Chelsie Montgomery
Gulf Park Admissions Counselor – Business, Industry and Government; Alabama Community Colleges; Mississippi Freshmen and Transfers (excluding PRCC)
Phone
228.214.3442
Email: Chelsie.Montgomery@usm.edu
Territory: Gulf Park Business, Industry & Government; Alabama Community Colleges; Mississippi
Gulf Coast Community College (all campuses); Mississippi Freshmen and Transfers (excluding
PRCC)
Reid Morris
Admissions Counselor – Local/Pine Belt Region
Phone
601-543-6543
Email: Reid.Morris@usm.edu
Territory: Pine Belt (Clarke, Covington, Forrest, Jasper, Jones, Lamar, Marion, Simpson, Smith,
and Wayne counties)
Kalyn Patterson
Admissions Counselor – South Alabama & Florida
Phone
601.543.8975
Email: Kalyn.Patterson@usm.edu
Territory: South Alabama (Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh, Coosa,
Covington, Crenshaw, Dale, Escambia, Geneva, Henry, Houston, Lee, Macon, Mobile, Monroe,
Pike, Russell, Tallapoosa, Washington, and Wilcox counties); Florida
Ramsey Thrasher
Admissions Counselor – Mississippi - Gulf Coast
Phone
601.543.7415
Email: Ramsey.Thrasher@usm.edu
Territory: Mississippi - Gulf Coast (George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River,
Perry, and Stone counties)
Dylan Tyner
Gulf Park Admissions Counselor – Pearl River Community College and Louisiana
Phone
228.214.3507
Email: Dylan.Tyner@usm.edu
Territory: Pearl River Community College and Louisiana