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Legislative Advisory Council
The Legislative Advisory Council of legislators and delegates from each state advises the Board. The Council meets several times each year to examine key issues. SREB’s Legislative Work Conference is the nation’s oldest annual legislative forum on education issues.
Alabama
Representatives Alan Baker of Brewton and
Terri Collins of Decatur serve on the
Council by virtue of being legislative members of the Board.
Senator Vivian Davis
Figures of Mobile and Representatives Barbara
Drummond of Mobile, Tracy Estes of
Winfield and Danny Garrett of Trussville
are gubernatorial appointees to the Council.
Arkansas
Representative Brian Evans of Cabot serves
on the Council by virtue of being a legislative member of the
Board.
Senators Alan Clark of
Lonsdale and Jane English of North Little
Rock, and Representatives Sonia Barker of
Smackover, Bruce Cozart of Hot Springs and
John Maddox of Mena are gubernatorial appointees
to the Council.
Delaware
Senator David Sokola of Newark and
Representative Kimberly Williams of Wilmington
serve on the Council by virtue of being legislative members
of the Board.
Representatives Stephanie Bolden of Wilmington,
Debra Heffernan of Wilmington and
Michael Ramone of Newark,
and Senators Brian Pettyjohn of Georgetown
and Laura Sturgeon of Woodbrook are
gubernatorial appointees to the Council.
Georgia
Senator Billy Hickman of Statesboro and
Representative Matt Dubnik of
Gainesville serve on the Council by virtue of being
legislative members of the Board.
Representative Mack
Jackson of Sandersville and Senator Freddie
Powell Sims of Dawson are gubernatorial appointees
to the Council.
Louisiana
Representative Jason Hughes of New Orleans
serves on the Council by virtue of being a legislative member of
the Board.
Senator Beth Mizell of Franklinton is a
gubernatorial appointee to and Chair of the
Council. Senator Cleo Fields of Baton
Rouge is a gubernatorial appointee to the Council.
Maryland
Senator John D. “Jack” Bailey of
Mechanicsville serves on the Council by virtue of being a
legislative member of the Board.
Delegates Eric Ebersole of Catonsville,
Jefferson Ghrist of Ridgely, and
Stephanie Smith of Baltimore, and
Senators Paul Corderman of Hagerstown,
Nancy King of Montgomery Village and
Mary Washington of Baltimore are gubernatorial
appointees to the Council.
Mississippi
Representative Richard Bennett of Long Beach
and Senator Dennis DeBar of Leakesville
serve on the Council by virtue of being legislative members of
the Board.
Senator Briggs Hopson of Vicksburg and
Representative Kent McCarty of Hattiesburg are
gubernatorial appointees to the Council.
North Carolina
Senators Graig R. Meyer of Chapel Hill and
Gladys A. Robinson of Greensboro serve on
the Council by virtue of being legislative members of the
Board.
Senator Jay J. Chaudhuri of Raleigh is
a gubernatorial appointee to and Vice Chair of the
Council. Representative Rosa U. Gill of
Raleigh is a gubernatorial appointee to the Council.
South Carolina
Senator Nikki G. Setzler of West Columbia
serves on the Council by virtue of being a legislative
member of the Board.
Representative Shannon Erickson of Beaufort is a
gubernatorial appointee to the Council.
Tennessee
Representative Mark White
of Memphis serves on the Council by virtue of being a legislative
member of the Board.
Representatives Scott Cepicky of Culleoka,
Kirk Haston of
Lobelville, Debra Moody of Covington,
and William Slater of Gallatin,
and Senator Ferrell Haile of Gallatin are
gubernatorial appointees to the Council.
West Virginia
Senator Robert H. Plymale of Huntington
serves on the Council by virtue of being a legislative
member of the Board.
Delegate Joe Statler of Core and
Senators Charles H. Clements of New
Martinsville, Vince Deeds of
Renick, Amy N. Grady of Leon and
David Stover of Maben are gubernatorial
appointees to the Council.
