{"id":230795,"date":"2026-04-03T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/mississippi-names-new-chief-technology-officer\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T13:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:20:16","slug":"mississippi-names-new-chief-technology-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/mississippi-names-new-chief-technology-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi names new chief technology officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/mississippi-steve-patterson-cto\/\">Mississippi names new chief technology officer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/mississippi-steve-patterson-cto\/\">https:\/\/statescoop.com\/mississippi-steve-patterson-cto\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-03 13:06:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"statescoop.com\">statescoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mississippi\u2019s technology department on Thursday announced that it\u2019s promoted Steve Patterson, its director of data services, to serve as the state\u2019s chief technology officer.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on LinkedIn, Mississippi Department of Information Technology Services congratulated Patterson, who will lead \u201centerprise technology operations, guide statewide IT modernization efforts, and ensure secure, scalable, and reliable services that support Mississippi agencies and citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patterson replaces Brian Norwood, who spent 25 years with ITS, first writing code as a Java developer and then working his way into the C suite. Norwood stepped down from public service last November to take a role as director of infrastructure services with Trustmark Bank. Patterson also has two decades of state service \u2014 he joined Mississippi\u2019s state government in 2006 as an open systems manager, a role he held for 13 years.<\/p>\n<p>Craig Orgeron, Mississippi\u2019s chief information officer, told Government Technology that Patterson will support \u201ccontinued modernization efforts, strengthening alignment across enterprise technology operations\u201d and meeting a growing demand for services across the state government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSteve has a strong combination of technical depth, leadership capability, and practical understanding of the operational challenges facing government IT organizations today,\u201d Orgeron said in an email. \u201cAnd just as important, he understands the importance of collaboration, service, and execution in a public-sector environment.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Patterson assumes Mississippi\u2019s CIO role at a time of high activity. Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves on Wednesday approved legislation to create the state\u2019s first cybersecurity operations center, which will be housed in the technology department. Orgeron told this publication last month that the new body, designed as a cross-agency meeting point for managing the state\u2019s operational cybersecurity, \u201cmarks a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/mississippi-steve-patterson-cto\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mississippi names new chief technology officer https:\/\/statescoop.com\/mississippi-steve-patterson-cto\/ Publish Date: 2026-04-03 13:06:00 Source Domain: statescoop.com Mississippi\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-1321033543.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230797,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230795\/revisions\/230797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}