MS Tax Institute

Hayden Park is an attorney with Butler Snow LLP in Ridgeland, Mississippi, where he is a member of the firm's Business Services practice group. His practice focuses on estate and trust planning, estate administration, business taxation, and tax-exempt organizations.

Hayden earned his LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law and his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Mississippi School of Law. He holds a Master of Taxation from the University of Mississippi and a Bachelor of Accountancy, cum laude, from Mississippi State University.

Hayden is admitted to practice in Mississippi and before the United States Tax Court. He is also a Certified Public Accountant licensed in Mississippi. He is an active member of the Mississippi Bar Association, the Mississippi Society of Certified Public Accountants, and the Estate Planning Council of Mississippi.

Jan Craig serves as the Associate Commissioner for Income and Property Taxes for the Mississippi Department of Revenue in Jackson. She has held this position since 2011. As the Associate Commissioner, Ms. Craig oversees the Income Taxes which include Individual Income Tax, Corporate Income and Franchise Tax, Withholding, Miscellaneous Taxes, the Customer Service area for the Department, and the Property Tax area which includes the Motor Vehicle Registration and Title. Ms. Craig has has served in the Income Tax Bureau and Miscellaneous Tax Bureau as well. Ms. Craig holds an MBA from Delta State University and a Bachelor of Accountancy from the University of Mississippi. She is also a CPA.

Since 2022, Marc Littlecott has been the Director of Estate and Planned Giving for the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss). A Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy©, he has worked as a specialist in the field of planned giving since 1999, including 14 years with The Salvation Army and 8 years with the South Dakota State University Foundation.

For 4 years, Marc served as a volunteer and as Secretary of the Charitable IRA Initiative, which lobbied successfully for passage of qualified charitable distribution (QCD’s) for IRA’s expansion in 2019 to include charitable gift annuities and remainder trusts (CRUT’s).

After serving on the editorial board of Planned Giving Today magazine for almost 11 years, Marc became president of Magnolia State Charitable Gift Planners, the main advocacy and training organization in the state of Mississippi (www.mscgp.org) for advisors and nonprofit executives interested in the topic. He has presented for numerous bar associations an estate councils, national planned giving conferences, as well as dozens of local chapters across the nation.

A graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, Marc subsequently served as an Air Defense Artillery officer with the US Army before entering civilian life. He and his wife Laura have two grown children, including one attending Ole Miss at the present time.