Meet Brice

Senator Brice Wiggins has represented the areas of Pascagoula, Gautier, Ocean Springs and Gulf Park Estates since 2012.  He presently serves as Senate Judiciary A Chairman, traditionally one of the most important committees in the legislature with broad jurisdiction over the state’s laws and courts. As a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, he serves as Subcommittee Chairman overseeing the budgets of the Department of Public Safety, the Attorney General and all the courts. He’s also previously handled the state’s $7 billion Medicaid budget.  Since coming to the legislature, he has served on the Senate Public Health Committee, spending a term as its Vice-Chairman. At the same time, he served as the Chairman of the first Senate Medicaid Committee having been appointed by then Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves. With an appointment by current Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, Brice served on the Joint Legislative and Congressional Redistricting Committee in 2023-24.

Brice has successfully authored and passed transformative pieces of legislation: the Early Learning Collaborative Act, which placed Mississippi top-5 in the country in early education rankings and has been a part of the “Mississippi Miracle,” “Katie’s Law” which allowed for the collection of DNA after arrest on violent felonies, “Lonnie’s Act” which strengthened the state’s child abuse laws, the “DMR Transparency and Accountability Act” that reformed the Department of Resources in the wake of financial scandal in 2013, and culminating with the recently concluded 2025 session, spearheaded the most in-depth redistricting in 40 years of the state’s courts, setting the table for Republican areas of the state to be sufficiently represented in the judiciary for years to come.

In his “other job,” Brice, a former prosecutor, owns Wiggins Law, PLLC, where he practices general litigation, family law, corporate law, criminal matters, estates and child custody. For twenty-six years, Brice has been married to Heather Wiggins, a project finance manager for SERCO Corporation, a sub-contractor to Ingalls Shipbuilding, builders of 70% of the U.S. Navy’s warships.  They have a son, Landon, a 2025 graduate of Ole Miss who will attend UMMC’s graduate program in cellular and molecular biology, and daughter Grace, a sophomore at Ole Miss, who is studying in the METP teaching program in the School of Education.