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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 Representative Rod
Scott of Fairfield are gubernatorial appointees to the
Council.
Arkansas
Senator Joyce Elliott of Little Rock serves
on the Council by virtue of being a legislative member of the
Board.
Senators Eddie L. Cheatham of Crossett
and Alan Clark of Lonsdale,
and Representatives Sonia Barker of
Smackover, Bruce Cozart of Hot Springs,
Grant Hodges of Rogers and Mark
Lowery of Maumelle are gubernatorial appointees to
the Council.
Delaware
Senator David Sokola of Newark serves on
the Council by virtue of being a legislative member of the
Board.
Representatives Stephanie Bolden of Wilmington,
Debra Heffernan of Wilmington, Earl G.
Jaques of Newark and Michael Ramone of
Newark, and Senator Brian Pettyjohn of
Georgetown are gubernatorial appointees to the Council.
Louisiana
Senator Francis C. Thompson of
Delhi serves on the Council by virtue of being a legislative
member of the Board. Representative Patricia Haynes
Smith of Baton Rouge is a gubernatorial appointee to the
Council and is the Council’s current vice chair.
Senators Gerald Long of Winnfield
and Dan W. “Blade” Morrish of
Jennings are gubernatorial appointees to the Council.
Mississippi
Senators Terry Burton of Newton and
Videt Carmichael of Meridian serve on the
Council by virtue of being legislative members of the Board.
Representative Nolan
Mettetal of Sardis is a gubernatorial
appointee to the Council.
North Carolina
Representative Graig R. Meyer of Chapel
Hill serves on the Council by virtue of being a legislative
member of the Board.
Representatives Rosa U. Gill of Raleigh and
Linda P. Johnson of Kannapolis and
Senators Jay J. Chaudhuri of Raleigh
and Erica D. Smith of Henrico are
gubernatorial appointees to the Council.
Oklahoma
Representative Chad Caldwell of Enid serves
on the Council by virtue of being a legislative member of the
Board.
Senators Marty Quinn of Claremore
and Gary Stanislawski of Tulsa,
and Representatives Rhonda Baker of
Yukon and Todd Russ of Cordell are gubernatorial
appointees to the Council.
South Carolina
Representative Rita Allison of
Lyman and Senator Nikki G. Setzler of
West Columbia serve on the Council by virtue of being
legislative members of the Board.
Senator John W. Matthews Jr. of Bowman 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.
Senator Ferrell Haile of Gallatin and
Representatives John DeBerry of Memphis and
Bill Dunn of Knoxville are gubernatorial
appointees to the Council.
Texas
Senator Larry Taylor of Friendswood serves
on the Council by virtue of being a legislative member of the
Board.
Representatives Charles “Doc” Anderson of Waco
and Mike Lang of Eastland,
and Senator Donna Campbell of New Braunfels
are gubernatorial appointees to the Council.
Virginia
Senator Janet D. Howell of
Reston serves on the Council by virtue of being a
legislative member of the Board.
Senators Mamie E. Locke of Hampton and
Jennifer L. McClellan of
Richmond, and Delegate David L.
Bulova of Fairfax are gubernatorial appointees to the
Council.
West Virginia
Senators Robert H. Plymale of Huntington
and Roman W. Prezioso Jr. of Fairmont
serve on the Council by virtue of being legislative members of
the Board.
Senator Kenny Mann of Ballard and
Delegate Paul Espinosa of Charles Town are
gubernatorial appointees to the Council.