1. Brice Wiggins serves as a Republican member of the Mississippi State Senate representing Mississippi's District 52, which includes the cities of Pascagoula and Ocean Springs.
12 Facts About Brice Wiggins
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Brice Wiggins was born on August 8,1971, in Irving, Texas, the son of Linda, a teacher and librarian at Sacred Heart Elementary and Resurrection Schools in Pascagoula, and Dr Christopher Edward Wiggins, an orthopedic surgeon.
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Brice Wiggins was educated at the Pascagoula High School and graduated in 1989.
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Brice Wiggins received a Juris Doctor degree from the Mississippi College School of Law in 1998.
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Brice Wiggins had his own firm, Wiggins Law, PLLC in Pascagoula from 2011 until 2021.
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Brice Wiggins served as Assistant District Attorney and Youth Court Prosecutor in Jackson County, Mississippi for seven years prior to becoming a state senator in 2011.
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Brice Wiggins has served as a Republican member of the Mississippi State Senate since 2012, representing District 52, encompassing southern Jackson County and includes Pascagoula, Gautier, and Ocean Springs.
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Brice Wiggins has been the lead author of two transformative pieces of legislation, the 2013 Early Learning Collaborative Act which established Mississippi's first ever early education program.
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Brice Wiggins currently serves as Chairman of Judiciary A, a committee overseeing all manner of legal issues in the state and served as Chairman of Judiciary B in 2020 overseeing criminal law and criminal justice reform.
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Brice Wiggins is a leading advocate on education, government transparency, criminal justice reform, criminal prosecution issues and appropriations.
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Brice Wiggins was a lead Senate negotiator, as well as a lead appropriator, on the law creating the Gulf Coast Restoration Fund to direct hundreds of millions of dollars to the Gulf Coast and currently serves on the Governor's Gulf Coast Advisory Committee for RESTORE Act funds.
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Brice Wiggins is a member of the Eastlawn United Methodist Church, where he served as Administrative Council President from 2003 to 2004.