The Commission to Redesign the Mississippi State Flag selected five flags Tuesday to move to the final round.
The five designs and a new nonbinding public poll have been placed on the Mississippi Department of Archives and History website at www.mdah.ms.gov/flagpoll-top5.
The five designs will be manufactured into flags, and at the Aug. 25 meeting, commissioners will meet in front of the Old Capitol Museum, where each flag will be raised on the flag pole.
The commission will choose the final design during the Sept. 2 meeting and report that selection to the governor and Legislature.
Members of the commission are Dr. Mary Graham, President of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College; Robyn Tannehill, mayor of Oxford; TJ Taylor, Policy Advisor for House Speaker Philip Gunn; Judge Reuben Anderson, former Supreme Court Justice and MDAH Board of Trustees President; Sherri Carr Bevis, Community Relations Liaison to the Singing River Health System and former teacher; J. Mack Varner, Vicksburg attorney; Tribal Chief Cyrus Ben, chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and Mississippi Economic Council representative; Frank Bordeaux, vice president of Property and Casualty for BXS Insurance in Mississippi and Mississippi Arts Commission representative, and Betsey Hamilton, real estate broker and appraiser and Mississippi Department of Archives and History representative.
For more information, email info@mdah.ms.gov.