Madelyn Scales Harris
Madelyn Scales Harris | |
|---|---|
| Vice Mayor of Murfreesboro Member of the Murfreesboro City Council | |
| Assumed office May 2010 |
Madelyn Scales Harris is an American politician and Vice Mayor of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.[1] She was elected to the Murfreesboro, Tennessee City Council in 2010,[2] re-elected in 2014, and elected for a third term in 2018.[3][4]
She was selected by her peers to serve as Vice Mayor, the position held by her late father Robert W. Scales, on February 8, 2017.[5][6]
Her mother Mary Scales was the first black faculty member at Middle Tennessee State University.[7][8] Her father Robert W. Scales was the first African-American city councilman and first African-American Vice-Mayor of Murfreesboro.[9][10]
Harris is a graduate of Middle Tennessee State University,[11] and is retired from State Farm Insurance where she worked as a business account underwriter.[12] Her family owns the Scales & Son Funeral Home founded by Preston Scales in 1916 as the first black-owned funeral home in Rutherford County, TN and Murfreesboro.[13][14]
References[edit]
- ↑ "City Council". Murfreesboro TN. City of Murfreesboro. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
- ↑ Willard, Michelle (25 April 2010). "Service above self: Harris unseats Edwards in city council race". The Murfreesboro Post. Archived from the original on 4 November 2013. Retrieved 5 May 2015. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Staff REPORT (15 April 2014). "McFarland elected Mayor of Murfreesboro". The Murfreesboro Post. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
- ↑ Reynolds, Jason (6 August 2018). "City election winners a mix of familiar, new faces". The Murfreesboro Post. The Murfreesboro Post. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
- ↑ Jones, Jackson. "Madelyn Scales Harris Named Vice Mayor". WGNS Radio. Murfreesboro News and Radio. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
- ↑ Hays, DeAnn (15 February 2017). "Councilwoman Follows In Parents Footsteps Becomes 3rd Generation Politician". Nexstar Broadcasting Inc. WKRN. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
- ↑ Bill Ketron, and Jim Tracy, Thelma Harper, Co-Sponsors, 2014, "Tennessee Senate Resolution 67: A Resolution to Honor the Memory of Mary C. Scales of Murfreesboro," TN SR0067 | 2013-2014 | 108th General Assembly, February 6, 2014, see [1], [2] and [3] Archived 2015-04-24 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 5 May 2015.
- ↑ LegiScan. TN SR0067 | 2013-2014 | 108th General Assembly. 06 February 2014, see [4], accessed May 05, 2015.
- ↑ Bill Trail, and Thelma Harper, Co-Sponsors, 2001, "Tennessee Senate Joint Resolution 54: A Resolution to honor the memory of Robert Winston "Tee- Niny" Scales of Rutherford County," TN SJR0054 | 2000-2001 | 102nd General Assembly. March 1, 2001, see [5], [6] and [7] Archived 2015-04-24 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 5 May 2015.
- ↑ Tennessee Secretary of State. TN SJR0054 | 2000-2001 | 102nd General Assembly. 01 March 2001, see [8] Archived 2015-04-23 at the Wayback Machine, accessed May 05, 2015.
- ↑ "Madelyn Harris-Scales - New Beginnings Motivational Speaker". madelynsharris.com. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ↑ Ragland-Hudgins, Mealand (11 February 2015). "Unity luncheon honors service". The Daily News Journal. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
- ↑ Revis, Brandi (May 29, 2011). "Family legacy". The Murfreesboro Post. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- ↑ "Murfreesboro, Tennessee's 1st Black Business Now In 4th Generation". Black Enterprise. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
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