Winston County native joins the Mississippi State University Extension Service staff in Winston County.
Jim McAdory, a lifetime Louisville resident, is no stranger to the MSU Extension Service. He has been with Extension 19 years, serving as the fulltime agent for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.
McAdory is a graduate of Winston Academy (1988), East Central Community (1991), earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Extension Education (1998), and Masters of Science degree in Agricultural Information Science (2014) from Mississippi State University.
While at the MBCI Extension office, McAdory was responsible for all Extension educational outreach and programming in areas of youth, family consumer science, economic development, and agriculture natural resources. While serving as the MBCI Extension Agent, McAdory was a member of the Committee that won the State Team Diversity Award for his part in initiating the educational component in the Neshoba Wildlife Jamboree (2008), Customer Outreach Team Award for assisting the “Turning The Tide on Poverty” program (2010), also selected by his peers as the MSU Extension Agent of the year in 2016, winning the Travis Tadlock Outstanding Extension Agent Award, and in 2017 McAdory was co-winner, along with Neshoba County Director Karen Benson, as the Franklin T. Burns Outstanding Extension Community Resource Development Award.
McAdory states, “It was an absolute joy to work with the Choctaw Tribe as their Extension Agent, and I’ve seen first-hand the impacts Extension Service programming can have in local communities and for the individual. I look forward to bringing my experience home, and making positive impacts for the people of Winston County.”
