Mark Cumbest, ALC Broker-Owner 1975 - Graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi, Real Estate and Insurance Major: Founded Cumbest Realty, Inc. 1980 - President, Jackson County Board of Realtors. 1983 - Awarded Accredited Land Consultant Designation. 1986 - President, Mississippi Chapter Realtors Land Institute. 1989-Present. Finance Chairperson. Caswell Springs United Methodist Church. 1991 - Selected Land Realtor of America by the Realtors Land Institute. 1993-1999 & 2000-Present. Board of Directors - The United Methodist Hour, Hattiesburg, Mississippi. 1994-Present. The National Association of Realtors Political Contact Chairperson to Senator Trent Lott. 1995 - National President, Realtors Land Institute. 1997 - Mississippi Realtor of the Year. 1997 - "Today's Realtor"- Commercial/Investment Category Today's Realtor Magazine. 1999 - Youngest inductee into Mississippi Realtor Hall of Fame. Selected five times as Realtor of the Year, East Gulf Coast Board of Realtors. Selected four times Realtor of the Year, Mississippi RLI Chapter. East Gulf Coast Board of Realtors Top Commercial Lister, Seller, and Producer Broker-Owner Category, 11 years of the 15-year program. Life Membership in the Elite Circle of Realtors, East Gulf Coast Board of Realtors. Top Producer Roundtable member, Gulf Coast Association of Realtors. 2002 - Selected as one of the Top 10 South Mississippi Community Leaders and inducted into the Roland Weeks Leadership Hall of Fame in the first annual awards program sponsored by the Sun Herald newspaper and the Journal for South Mississippi Business. 2003-Present. Board Chair, The United Methodist Hour, Hattiesburg, Mississippi. 2005 - Inaugural inductee into Who's Who in Mississippi Business by the Mississippi Business Journal. 2005 - Appointed by Governor as Fourth Congressional District Representative on the Mississippi Real Estate Commission. The district covers tweleve counties and most of three others in Mississippi's southernmost congressional district. He is only the fifth person to serve in Mississippi's southernmost congressional district since the Real Estate Commission came into existence in 1954. His term began July 1, 2005 and will end in 2009. Married for 32 years to Pamela Cumbest. Two sons, Grant and Reid. Born September 18, 1953. Life long resident of Cumbest Bluff, Mississippi.