Michael Jefcoat
Michael Jefcoat, formerly president of Jefcoat Enterprises in Laurel, Mississippi, graduated from the University of the South. He is a gardener and a collector of books, art, and decorative art. Jefcoat is also devoted to the work of Eudora Welty and William Faulkner and serves as a trustee of the Eudora Welty Foundation. He and his wife, Evelyn, have worked assiduously in support of the restoration of the Welty house and garden in Jackson, Mississippi, and the restoration of the gardens and grounds of Rowan Oak, Faulkner’s home in Oxford, Mississippi. Among Jefcoat’s other philanthropic concerns are establishing forestry scholarships and promoting publishing in the field of American landscape history.