Mississippi Code Title 83. Insurance § 83-31-165

(1) The affairs of every mutual insurance holding company shall be managed by not less than five (5) directors.

(2) Directors shall be elected by the members of the mutual insurance holding company at the annual meeting of members. Directors may be elected for terms of not more than three (3) years each and until their successors are elected and have qualified, and, if to be elected for terms of more than one (1) year, the mutual insurance holding company's bylaws may provide for a classified board under which the terms of a proportionate part of the members of the board of directors shall expire on the date of each annual meeting of members.

(3) If so provided in a mutual insurance holding company's bylaws, a director of such mutual insurance holding company must be a policyholder of a subsidiary insurance company of the mutual insurance holding company.