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Division names new leaders, gratefully acknowledges retirees
Two longtime Mississippi State University personnel have assumed integral roles in the Division of Development and Alumni. Janet H. Carraway and Leann Markham, both MSU graduates, are now in financial and information systems leadership positions vacated at the close of 2019 by retiring veteran employees.
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MARKHAM
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FOUNDATIONS | Spring 2020
Janet Carraway became the executive director of finance for the MSU Foundation in January, succeeding David D. Easley, who retired after a 32-year MSU career in December. Additionally, Carraway serves as chief financial officer of the MSU Foundation’s board of directors, beginning her first one-year term Jan. 1, 2020. Most recently, Carraway was director of finance and budget with the MSU Foundation for many years, supervising the accounting and business office of the MSU Foundation and Alumni Association. A 1984 and 1991 graduate with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accountancy and a certified public accountant, Carraway has helped lead financial reporting within the Division of Development and Alumni since 1993 when she joined the MSU Foundation as an accountant. A native of Starkville, Carraway grew up as the daughter of an MSU agricultural economics professor. She began her career in public accounting and worked for a utility company before joining the university in 1992. Additionally, Carraway has served as a lecturer for financial accounting classes in the College of Business. Leann Markham has joined the Division of Development and Alumni as executive director of information services, succeeding Vickie Brown who retired in December 2019 after more than 30 years of MSU service. Markham previously worked in Information Technology Services (ITS) at Mississippi State for 20 years. She began her career in ITS as a graduate assistant in 1997 and then progressed through the department in various roles including database analyst, senior programmer analyst, systems analyst, and senior systems analyst. After a brief stint as an assistant professor of management information systems at Mississippi University for Women in mid-2014, Markham returned to MSU in late 2015 as a senior systems analyst and team leader with Enterprise Information Systems (EIS), one of three primary units of ITS. During her time with EIS, she supported the areas of account services, human resources, payroll, document imaging, facilities management, and development and alumni, where she was an analyst working with the division’s conversion to the Banner database.
