Andrew Whitehurst, MMNSF Board Member

Meet Andrew Whitehurst, MMNSF Board Member

April 22, 2025

Andrew comes to the MMNS Foundation with a background that includes 11 years as a staff member in the museum’s research section where he was a coordinator in the Natural Heritage Program. He also supervised the museum’s aquarium staff in 2010, wrote and managed recreational trails grants to improve and repair museum trail features, and taught aquatics and fish biology regularly in the museum’s education programs for elementary and high school students. His grandmother’s maidenhair ferns can be found planted in many of the museum’s aquarium exhibits.

He currently works at the environmental non-profit advocacy organization Healthy Gulf as its water program director. Andrew holds a master’s degree in wildlife ecology from Mississippi State University (1990) and a law degree (1997) from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at LSU.

He coordinated the writing and passage of a 2003 Mississippi state tax credit covering costs of conservation easements created to protect sensitive habitats along nominated state scenic streams and on high-value conservation sites on private land.

He has lived in Madison, Mississippi since 1998 and is married to Cecilia Redmann Whitehurst. He has two grown children: Claire, an artist and teacher, and Andrew, a nurse and rock drummer.