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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 Bruce Cozart of Hot Springs
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 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
and Debra Heffernan of Wilmington,
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.
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.
South Carolina
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
Delegate Joe Statler of Core and Senators Charles H. Clements of New Martinsville, Vince Deeds of Renick and Amy N. Grady of Leon are gubernatorial appointees to the Council.
