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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 118
By Johnson
SJR0118
003322
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A RESOLUTION to confirm the appointment of Lynn Richardson
of Elizabethton to the Tennessee Ethics
Commission.
WHEREAS, pursuant to Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 3-6-103, Governor Bill Lee
has selected Lynn Richardson of Elizabethton as his appointee from the majority party to the
Tennessee Ethics Commission; and
WHEREAS, Ms. Richardson is a highly respected journalist who has served as president
and publisher of the Elizabethton Star, publisher of the Herald & Tribune in Jonesborough, and
director and founder of the Newspapers in Education program for the Johnson City Press; and
WHEREAS, in recognition of her lengthy career in publishing, she has received
numerous first-place awards from the Tennessee Press Association for excellence in the
editorial, news, feature writing, and news photography categories, and she has served the
organization as president, district director, and board member; and
WHEREAS, Ms. Richardson gives back to her community as a board member for the
Elizabethton/Carter County Boys and Girls Club and the Isaiah 117 House; and
WHEREAS, Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 3-6-103, requires that each
gubernatorial appointee be confirmed by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of approval by each house of
the General Assembly; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FOURTEENTH
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, THE HO USE OF
REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING, that this body hereby confirms the appointment of Lynn
Richardson to the Tennessee Ethics Commission, such term to expire on December 31, 2028.