Vicksburg Convention & Visitors Bureau director Jessica Hayes Williams has attended her last meeting and will resign her seat on the board, she said Thursday.

Williams, a county-appointed member of the 11-seat tourism board, confirmed her resignation after District 3 Supervisor Charles Selmon told fellow supervisors of her resignation at the end of that board’s meeting earlier in the day.

Williams said her decision was based on &#8220other obligations,” both personal and professional, and did not stem exclusively from the contentious discussions that culminated with much of the VCVB’s marketing and management functions being assumed by Compass Facility Management earlier this year.

&#8220It’s not a new thought. It’s something I’ve been thinking about,” Williams said.

Her resignation is expected to be taken up at the supervisors’ regular meeting Monday. Selmon said he will likely return to the shopping list of prospects compiled for the most recent vacancy.

The departure of Williams, an executive at International Paper, is the second this year, the first being Jo Wilson, owner of Wilsonwood Lodge. That opening, a joint city-county appointment, was filled by bank executive Nelda Sampey May 1.

Both Williams and Wilson were part of the group of five board members who voted against approving the contract that put Compass in charge of the bureau’s general management, personnel, budgeting, sales and marketing, public relations, convention and visitor services, operating services, special event coordinating and merchandising.

Williams was six months into her second four-year appointment on the board.

Tim Darden, who was appointed last fall as chairman of the board after Curt Follmer’s resignation, was not available to comment on Williams’ departure.

Appointees, five each appointed by city and county officials in addition to the one combined appointee, manage a $1 million annual tourism development effort. They are volunteers, but receive token fees for attending meetings, normally once per month.