The first president of the Mississippi Lottery Corporation said Wednesday that he will retire June 30, just over two years after he was hired and a year and a half after the corporation started selling tickets for the games of chance.
Mississippi legislators voted in 2018 to join the majority of other states that have lotteries. A board of directors hired Tom Shaheen in May 2019, and he began work the following month. Shaheen had worked for lotteries in several states and is a former president of the Multi-State Lottery Association, which runs Powerball.