Howard L. McMillan Jr. will join the Millsaps Else School of Management as executive in residence in January. In this role, McMillan will assist students with career decisions, share his considerable business experience in the classroom and be involved in external-relations work.

McMillan, who graduated from the University of Mississippi, attended the Harvard School of Business Administration and the School of Banking of the South at Louisiana State University. Currently, he is a financial adviser with Morgan Stanley and the president of Century Club Charities.

He has served as president of Deposit Guaranty National Bank and Deposit Guaranty Corporation, the American Bankers Association, the United Way of the Capital Area and the Country Club of Jackson. McMillan has also served as chairman of the board for the Metro Jackson Chamber of Commerce, the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra Association, Mississippi Baptist Health Systems and the Metropolitan Jackson Crime Commission.

"We are very fortunate to have someone with Howard's extensive and varied business and community background at the Else School," said Randy Boxx, dean of the Millsaps Else School of Management. "I am particularly excited about the prospect of our students spending quality time with him."