Jackie Posey Bailey, CPA, MMNSF Board Member

Meet Jackie Posey Bailey, CPA, MMNSF Board Member

May 15, 2025

Jackie Posey Bailey is a CPA retired after 27 years of tax practice in public accounting and 13 more serving the nonprofit sector.  Jackie last served as Chief Operating Officer at the Community Foundation for Mississippi.

Jackie grew up in south Jackson, is a proud member of the Forest Hill High School Class of 1977, and graduated from Ole Miss in 1981 with a BBA in Accounting. Jackie and her late husband, Ricky, have two children, Matthew and Mary Shellie, and five grandchildren.  Jackie currently divides her time between Byram and Oxford.

Jackie believes in giving back to the community in which she lives. Her volunteer work includes the Byram/Terry public schools and their parent teacher organizations, St. Therese Catholic Church, the Mississippi Commission on International Cultural Exchange art exhibits, Stewpot Community Services, Habitat for Humanity Mississippi Capital Area, Women’s Foundation of MS, Mississippi Society of CPAs, Methodist Children’s Homes of Mississippi, and the Mississippi Book Festival.

Jackie’s family has long enjoyed the MS Museum of Natural Science, and she looks forward to continuing that support with the MMNS Foundation.