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Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jul 29, 2016
Gov. Bill Haslam named David Purkey the new commissioner of the state Department of Safety and Homeland Security, the Nashville Post reports. Purkey worked under the previous commissioner, Bill Gibbons, as the assistant commissioner since 2011, and also served as the director of the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency since 2014. He will assume his position Sept. 1.