TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Jan 28, 2020

President Donald Trump today announced plans to nominate former state House Speaker Beth Harwell and East Tennessee State University President Brian Noland to the Tennessee Valley Authority Board of Directors, the Knoxville News Sentinel reports. In 2011, Harwell became the first female speaker of the House. She retired to launch an unsuccessful bid for governor in 2018 and has since worked for private companies and taught a political science class at Middle Tennessee State University. Noland has been ETSU’s president since 2012 and previously served as chancellor of the West Virginia Higher Education System for six years. The TVA board is made up of nine members who must first be nominated by the president and then approved by the U.S. Senate before serving their five-year terms.