Phyliss J. Anderson is the first female elected Chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. She succeeded the incumbent Miko, Beasley Denson after the election committee concluded ballot count on July 6, 2011. Anderson polled 1,971 votes to defeat Beasley Denson who polled 1,618. Phyliss Anderson was sworn in as Chief on July 12, 2011. She is the fourth elected tribal chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians subsequent to the tribal government's re-establishment of 1945. In October 2012, a portrait of Chief Anderson was unveiled at the Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum.