Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee Senate Bill SJR0313 Compare Versions

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4	4	SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 313
5	5	By Haile
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12	12	A RESOLUTION to honor and congratulate Tracy Cannon on
13	13	being named the 2025 Westmoreland Citizen of
14	14	the Year.
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16	16	WHEREAS, we are pleased to recognize a public servant who has distinguished herself
17	17	as a valuable asset to her community through her leadership, outreach, integrity, vision, and
18	18	support; and
19	19	WHEREAS, Tracy Cannon has been named the 2025 Citizen of the Year by the
20	20	Westmoreland Chamber of Commerce, a much-deserved honor that recognizes the many
21	21	contributions she has made and continues to make to the community; and
22	22	WHEREAS, a native of Lebanon, Mrs. Cannon was an industrious young lady who
23	23	sewed and ironed clothes for others to make money for her family at the age of eleven; she also
24	24	babysat, and when she was thirteen, she started doing prep work and washing dishes at a local
25	25	diner; and
26	26	WHEREAS, at sixteen years of age Tracy Cannon was baptized at Highland Heights
27	27	Church of Christ, where her grandmother, her biggest influence, attended; and
28	28	WHEREAS, after graduating from Lebanon High School in 1982, she studied computer
29	29	information systems at Volunteer State Community College; she went on to study accounting
30	30	and finance at Southern New Hampshire University, business management at the American
31	31	Management Association, and communications for managers at Dun & Bradstreet; and
32	32	WHEREAS, she married the love of her life, Donovan Cannon, in 2000, and the couple
33	33	lived in Lebanon for the first eight years of their marriage, during which time they were blessed
34	34	with the birth of two children, Destiny and Dawson; and
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39	39	WHEREAS, the Cannon family relocated to Westmoreland in 2008; soon becoming an
40	40	important fixture in her community, she worked as an election official and election deputy for the
41	41	Sumner County Election Commission from 2010 to 2024; and
42	42	WHEREAS, she has been a contractor for more than twenty years, creating and
43	43	maintaining websites and performing digital graphic design work, outreach, public relations,
44	44	marketing, and more for clients, most of whom have been nonprofit organizations; she was the
45	45	outreach contractor for HOPE Family Health from 2014 to 2023; and
46	46	WHEREAS, Mrs. Cannon's vocational history also includes working at TRW/ZF in
47	47	Lebanon, where she was promoted to supervisor, and APL Logistics for Dell Computers,
48	48	serving as an administrative supervisor and managing a $1 billion budget for three facilities—
49	49	two in Nashville and one in Lebanon; and
50	50	WHEREAS, Tracy Cannon continues to be actively engaged in service at the city,
51	51	county, and state levels; in addition to serving on the Sumner County Tourism Board, she is
52	52	actively involved with Forward Sumner and is currently assisting Westmoreland Parks and
53	53	Recreation with donations and fundraising; and
54	54	WHEREAS, she is a valued member of the Macon County Fair Board, captain of Living
55	55	Sent Ministries for the Westmoreland area, and executive director of the Westmoreland
56	56	Chamber of Commerce, where she oversees day-to-day functions of the chamber and plans
57	57	and organizes events; and
58	58	WHEREAS, known for her kind and generous spirit as well as giving good advice, Mrs.
59	59	Cannon has always been devoted to volunteering with various local events, causes, and
60	60	organizations, instilling in her children the importance of, and the fulfillment found in, helping
61	61	others; and
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66	66	WHEREAS, Tracy Cannon is driven by her commitment to the Westmoreland
67	67	community, and she is richly deserving of our approbation on this special occasion; now,
68	68	therefore,
69	69	BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FOURTEENTH
70	70	GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, THE HOUSE OF
71	71	REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING, that we honor and congratulate Tracy Cannon upon
72	72	being named the 2025 Citizen of the Year by the Westmoreland Chamber of Commerce and
73	73	extend to her our best wishes for much continued success in all her future endeavors.
74	74	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that an appropriate copy of this resolution be prepared
75	75	for presentation with this final clause omitted from such copy and upon proper request made to
76	76	the appropriate clerk, the language appearing immediately following the State seal appear
77	77	without House or Senate designation.