13 Facts About Stacey Pickering

Stacey Eugene Pickering was born on July 12,1968 and is from Laurel, Mississippi, United States.

Stacey Pickering has served as a Mississippi State Senator, as State Auditor of Mississippi, as executive director of the Mississippi Veterans Affairs Board, and in the Mississippi Air National Guard.

For four years Stacey Pickering represented District 42, based in Jones County, in the Mississippi State Senate, to which he was elected in 2003, after incumbent state senator Vincent Scoper decided to retire.

Stacey Pickering was elected Mississippi State Auditor in 2007, when he defeated Democrat Mike Sumrall, 55 to 45 percent, in the general election; he served in the position for over a decade.

Stacey Pickering was sworn in on January 10,2008, and succeeded Phil Bryant.

In 2011, Stacey Pickering received only third-party opposition as he defeated Reform Party nominee Ashley Norwood, 76 to 24 percent.

In 2016, Stacey Pickering began an audit that found that only $3 million had been spent by GreenTech Automotive on automotive assembly equipment and parts in Mississippi, whereas it had promised to invest $60 million and create 350 jobs in Tunica County.

In July 2017, Stacey Pickering demanded that GreenTech and its CEO Charlie Wang pay Mississippi $6 million, because Greentech had not lived up to its promises.

Stacey Pickering resigned in 2018 to lead the Mississippi Veteran Affairs Board.

Stacey Pickering served as executive director of the Mississippi Veterans Affairs Board from 2018, when he replaced Randy Reeves, to 2022.

Stacey Pickering has been awarded the Korea Defense Service Medal.

In June 2012, Stacey Pickering was honored with the National State Auditor's Association's "National Excellence in Accountability Award" for his work on accountability and oversight regarding the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

In 2014, Pickering received the David M Walker Excellence in Government Performance and Accountability Award, a national award presented once every two years to three auditors from the public sector accountability community who represent federal, state, and local governments.