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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, Danny Garrett of Trussville,
Charlotte Meadows of Montgomery and
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 Alan Clark of
Lonsdale and Jane English of North Little
Rock, and Representatives Sonia Barker of
Smackover, Bruce Cozart of Hot Springs and
Mark Lowery of Maumelle 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
Representative Terry England of Auburn
and Senator Blake Tillery of Vidalia
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.
Senators Cleo Fields of Baton Rouge
and Beth Mizell of Franklinton, and
Representatives Raymond E. Garofalo of
Chalmette 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
Representative Graig R. Meyer of Chapel
Hill and Senator 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.
Oklahoma
Representative Chad Caldwell of Enid and
Senator Adam Pugh of Edmond serve on
the Council by virtue of being legislative members of the
Board.
Senator Marty Quinn of Claremore
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.
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.
