Elected and Appointed Government Officials 2023

Anne Hall Brashier serves as the Deputy Chief of Staff and Director of Policy and Legislative Affairs for Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves. In this role, she is responsible for leading the Governor’s policy team, overseeing the executive state agencies and executing the Governor’s policy and legislative agenda.

Before moving home to Mississippi, Anne Hall spent six years working on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. She began her career as a policy advisor to the late United States Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi. She advised Senator Cochran, then Chairman of the powerful appropriations committee and its subcommittee on defense, on issues related to national security, foreign policy and homeland security. Following Cochran’s retirement from the U.S. Senate, Anne Hall transitioned to the U.S. House of Representatives to serve as Representative Trent Kelly’s Deputy Chief of Staff and National Security Advisor. She was responsible for leading the Congressman’s work on the House Armed Services Committee and directing his legislative team on issues such as the 2018 Farm Bill. Anne Hall also served as the National Security Advisor to U.S. Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. During her time with Senator Tillis, she led the efforts to reform the military housing system to ensure men and women serving in our armed forces have adequate housing on base.

A native of Indianola, Mississippi, Anne Hall now resides in Ridgeland, Mississippi. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science from the University of Mississippi and a Master of Military Operational Art and Science from Air University’s Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. She also has professional military education certificates from the U.S. Naval War College and the U.S. Army War College. She was nominated by the Governor and confirmed by the Mississippi Senate to serve on the Mississippi Commission on the Status of Women. She also serves as the Governor’s appointee to the State Workforce Investment Board, Delta Regional Authority and the Appalachian Regional Commission and the Southern States Energy Board.