Don Wilson was appointed as the Chief Logistics Officer (CLO) in August 2020 for the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency. He’s led the Logistics for the State Emergency Operations Center through thirty federally declared disasters and numerous non-federally declared events.
Logistics is responsible for disaster logistics planning to provide MEMA response for Federally Declared and non-declared events, using stand-by contracts and available resources. These stand-by contracts provided Three hundred and fifty-six trailer loads of water and transportation to support the City of Jackson's water crisis. The Logistics Office is responsible for property management, facilities, fleet, and the State Emergency Logistics Operation Center (SELOC). The property bureau has 2621 property items with a value of over $28 million dollars. The facility bureau maintains five buildings with over 197,000 square feet of occupied space. The fleet bureau manages 57 fleet vehicles with an average age of 7 years and an average mileage of 74,000 miles— the SELOC stores over 3,160 pallets of Personal Protective Equipment.
Don has over 17 years of experience with MEMA Logistics. Before serving the State, he was on active duty with the Mississippi National Guard and retired as a Sergeant Major with 27 years of service. Don deployed in December 2003 to Fort Stewart, then stationed at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, until November 2004. He served as the Operations Sergeant Major in the G3 section of the 377th Theater Support Command.
Don completed the Sergeant Majors Academy at Fort Bliss, Texas. He is a long-time resident of Richland, Mississippi, with his wife Lisa, and two children and five grandchildren in Harrisville, Mississippi, and Columbus, Indiana.
