Sara Peery Kyle was born on October 21,1952 and is an American attorney and politician.
11 Facts About Sara Kyle
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Sara Kyle became the second woman elected to statewide office in Tennessee when she won the race for Public Service Commissioner in 1994.
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Sara Kyle was born in 1952 to Bruce and Emma Gene Clement Peery of Dickson, Tennessee and was a 1970 graduate of Dickson High School.
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Sara Kyle is the niece of former Tennessee governor Frank G Clement and former Tennessee state senator Anna Belle Clement O'Brien.
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Sara Kyle was elected to the Public Service Commission in 1994.
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The PSC as an elected position was eliminated and replaced by the appointed Tennessee Regulatory Authority to which Sara Kyle was appointed in 1996 by then Democratic Speaker Jimmy Naifeh.
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Sara Kyle was reappointed to successive terms by Tennessee political leaders serving in appointed capacity from 1996 until March 2013 when she resigned, in protest, saying changes made by the Republican Governor Bill Haslam left the agency ineffective.
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Sara Kyle briefly considered another effort at a statewide race in 2014 against Governor Haslam, but decided against this course of action.
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Sara Kyle won re-election to the state senate in 2016, running unopposed in the general election.
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On 4 April 2016, Sara Kyle voted for HB0615, a bill that would designate the Bible as the official state book.
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On 2 February 2019, Sara Kyle proposed bill SB1320 on Arrests and bill SB1317 on Child Custody and Support and they were both passed.