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Leland Speed, former executive director of Mississippi Development Authority, dies at 88


Leland Speed, former executive director of Mississippi Development Authority, dies at 88
Keisha Rowe, Mississippi Clarion Ledger
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Leland Speed, an influential North Jackson businessman and former executive director for the Mississippi Development Authority, has died, according to reports.
Speed, 88, was hospitalized Monday at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson due to complications from Lou Gehrig s disease, according to WLBT-TV. He passed away Wednesday.
Lou Gehrig s disease  also known as ALS  is an illness which attacks the nerve cells that control muscles. There is no known cure for the disease.
Speed served as a proponent for several civic engineering projects in and around the Jackson metro area and the state as a whole. He served as the executive director of the development authority from 2004 to 2007 under former Gov. Haley Barbour, wher ....

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