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The Tennessee Higher Education Commission

The Tennessee Higher Education Commission was created in the fall of 1967 by the Tennessee General Assembly, to achieve coordination and foster unity in higher education in this state. The Commission is composed of: nine lay members, with six year terms, representing congressional districts of the State; three Constitutional Officers who are ex-officio voting members (Comptroller of the Treasury, State Treasurer,  and Secretary of State); two  ex-officio  student  members,with one voting each year, (one student member from the University of Tennessee System with a two year term and one student member from the Tennessee Board of Regents System with a two year term); and the Executive Director of the State Board of Education, as an ex-officio, non-voting member.


2007-2008 Commission Members

Katie Winchester, Chair, Dyersburg
Gen. Wendell Gilbert, Vice-Chair, Clarksville
Jack Murrah, Vice-Chair, Hixon
A C Wharton, Jr., Secretary, Memphis
Wm. Ransom Jones, Murfreesboro
Riley C. Darnell, Secretary of State
John Morgan, Comptroller
Dale Sims, State Treasurer
Robert White, Johnson City
Charles Mann, Columbia
Sue Atkinson, Nashville
Gregory P. Isaacs, Knoxville
Sondra Wilson, voting ex-officio, Tennessee Technological University
David C. Holt, non-voting ex-officio, UT Memphis
Gary Nixon, non-voting ex-officio, Executive Director, State Board of Education

 

Former Commission Members

Steve Adams, 1993-2003
Walter Armstrong, Jr., 1967-84*
Linda Blevins, 1995-96
T.B. Boyd, Jr., 1970-76
Joseph H. Davenport, Jr., 1979-84
Lewis Donelson, 1981-90
Jeanne Myers Fisher, 1973-79
E. Bruce Foster, 1967-73
Sarah Elizabeth Hawkins, 1967-81
Ruth Holmberg, 1992-1996
Thomas Jessee, 1989-95*
John M. Jones, 1967-77*
Dale Kelly, 1998-2003
C.A. Kirkendoll, 1967-70
Debby Patterson Koch, 1996-2007
Joe Lancaster, 1977-2003
John R. Long, 1967-78*
Al Clark Mifflin, Jr., 1967-70
Roland H. Myers, 1967-73
John L. Parish, 1986-98
*Served as Chairman

Larry Perry, 1977-86
Herman Postma, 1984-92
Jim Powell, Sr., 2002-2006*
James M. Powers, Sr., 1990-98*
Walter Lee Price, 1973-80*
Scott Probasco, Jr., 1967-79
Glenn Rainey, 1970-82*
J. Brad Reed, 1980-88*
Robert Scales, 1976-86
June Scobee-Rodgers, 1997-04
Peaches Simpkins, 1989-95
Irby C. Simpkins, Jr., 1979-80
William R. Snodgrass, 1993-99
Ronald Terry, 1984-86
Dr. E. Hunter Wells, 1991-97
Joan E. Williams, 1982-91
Brad Windley 1999-2007
Douglas E. Wood, 2000-04
Robert F. Worthington, 1986-95
Eleanor E. Yoakum, 2001-07




 
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