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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
Representative Alan Baker of Brewton serves
on the Council by virtue of being a legislative member of the
Board. Representative Terri Collins of Decatur
serves on the Council by virtue of being a legislative member of
the Board and is the Council’s current Chair.
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.
Kentucky
Representatives Ruth Ann Palumbo of Lexington and Nancy Tate of Brandenburg serve on the Council by virtue of being legislative members of the Board.
Kentucky statute provides that the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate may each appoint three members to the Legislative Advisory Council. Representing the House is Steve Riley of Glasgow. Representing the Senate are Mike Wilson of Bowling Green and Max Wise of Campbellsville.
Louisiana
Representative Jason Hughes of New Orleans
serves on the Council by virtue of being a legislative member of
the Board.
Senators Cleo Fields of Baton Rouge
and Beth Mizell of Franklinton, and
Representatives Lance Harris of Alexandria
and Albert C. “Buddy” Mincey of Denham
Springs 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.
Representative Rosa U. Gill of Raleigh and
Senator Jay J. Chaudhuri of Raleigh are
gubernatorial appointees 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.
West Virginia
Senator Robert H. Plymale of Huntington
serves on the Council by virtue of being a legislative
member of the Board and is the Council’s current Vice
Chair.
Delegate Paul Espinosa of Charles Town is a
gubernatorial appointee to the Council.
