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Meet Our Team
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Chanda Simon
Personal Lines Customer Service Agent
chandas@rawsonandassociates.com
Chanda has 31 years experience as a Customer Service Agent and over 18 years as a Licensed Property and Casualty Agent. She joined our team on March 1, 2016. The most important part of her work experience is the customer service aspect. She is a very active listener as well as a great communicator.
Chanda and her husband Jeremiah have been married since 1992 and enjoy spending time with their two daughters and three grandchildren.

Tammy Smith
Commercial Lines Agent
tammys@rawsonandassociates.com
Tammy joined Cris Rawson & Tony Page as a Commercial Lines Broker Agent in 2014, after 25 years with the Albert Moore Agency. She began her insurance career in 1978 at the Mississippi State Rating Bureau.
Tammy has been married to her husband Tony Smith for 29 years and has two children and 3 wonderful grandchildren.

Tina Downs
Commercial Lines Customer Service Agent
Tina is the Commercial Accounts Rep for our Nationwide policyholders. She has been in the insurance industry for 12 years, and 9 of those have been with our Agency. Until a year or so ago, she was one of our Personal Lines Reps. Her specialty is outstanding customer service. We still have a few clients that will only speak to her even though they are Personal Lines clients.
Tina is a native Mississippian, who grew up in Attala County, near Kosciusko. When she’s not busy keeping up with her teenage son, Shelby, and his band performances and Kung Fu, she enjoys cruising the Bahamas, and spending time with family in the Smokey Mountains.

Tony Page
Associate Agent
Tony started his insurance career in Property and Casualty Insurance in 1987 after graduating from the University of Southern Mississippi. He initially focused on the auto, oil & gas, and farm equipment industries in his early professional career. Next he worked for Stewart Sneed Hewes Insurance in Jackson, MS, before working as State Manager of the state of Alabama for Safeco Insurance. Over the years he has worked in Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, joining the Rawson team in 2013.
He is married to Sandra Rawson Page with two children, Mary Ivy and Cooper.
Grenada Team

Kerri Deason
Associate Agent
kerrid@rawsonandassociates.com
Kerri became a part of the insurance industry in high school as a Customer Service Representative. Soon after, she became a licensed agent and spent 3 years at an independent agency. She has now been a part of Rawson Insurance Agency for over 10 years and specializes in Property and Casualty.

Donald “Bubba” Vance
Associate Agent
bubbav@rawsonandassociates.com
Bubba’s insurance career began in August of 1998 when he came to work for Cris. His personable nature makes him a natural Agent. In his spare time, he enjoys hunting and fishing. Prior to becoming an insurance agent, Bubba was a teacher.
His wife, Tammy, is a teacher in the Grenada School District and his daughter, Abby, attends Ole Miss.

Cathey Wrenn
Customer Service Agent
catheyw@rawsonandassociates.com
Cathey began her insurance career in our Water Valley office in January of 2000 as a CSR. She became a licensed agent in 2003. She and her family relocated to Grenada in 2008. She is currently part of our Grenada office staff as an agent and office manager.
Gluckstadt Team

Cris Rawson
Primary Agent
Cris grew up in Jackson, MS, attending Mississippi Baptist High School, Hinds Jr. College, and then graduating from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1981.
After college, Cris taught science and coached football and basketball at Bayou Jr. High School in the Gulfport School System. From 1984 to 1990, he taught Biology and coached basketball and tennis at Meridian High School.
He is married to Connie Beard Rawson, also from Jackson, and the two have four children, Hilary, Hannah, Mary Julia, and Caleb.
In October 1990 Cris began his insurance career with Nationwide Insurance. He believes in working hard to get his customers the best competitive rate along with the best coverages available for each individual situation, while providing excellent customer service.
His hobbies include spending time with his family, hunting, fishing, and supporting his children with their sporting events.

Courtney Jones
Person Lines Customer Service Agent
courtneyj@rawsonandassociates.com
Courtney began her insurance career in September of 2008 at an independent agency where she worked for over seven years. She joined our team at Rawson Insurance Agency in March of 2016 as a personal lines Customer Service Agent. In addition to her insurance duties, she also handles all of the bookkeeping for our offices.
When she’s not working, she enjoys spending time with her family.

Rena Wilbanks
Personal Lines Customer Service Agent
Rena started her insurance career in 1991. She has worked for Cris at Rawson Insurance Agency since 2002 in personal lines insurance. She has received numerous customer service awards throughout her career.
She enjoys spending time with her grandchildren on the weekends.
Southaven Team

Pam Creswell
Associate Agent
Pam has worked for Nationwide for seven years. She joined Rawson Insurance Agency in 2017 as an Associate Agent. She handles personal lines, commercial lines, life insurance, and annuities. She is licensed in Mississippi, Tennessee, and North Carolina.
Pam grew up in Jackson, MS, raised her children in Madison, MS, and has lived in Nashville, TN the past four years. She recently relocated back to MS to work in our Southaven office.