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For Immediate Release

Rep. Harry Brooks announces candidacy for Tennessee House Speaker post

August 10, 2010

(KNOXVILLE) -- Citing Tennesseans need for House of Representatives leadership that crafts

solutions to the states serious challenges, State Rep. Harry Brooks (R-Knoxville) has announced

that he is seeking the post of Speaker of the House.

I am reaching out to Republican House members and candidates because we have an

opportunity to set a new agenda, create a new atmosphere, and accomplish much for the people

of Tennessee.

I anticipate that we are going to have a Republican governor and Republican majorities

in both the House and the Senate, Brooks added. This is an opportunity for us to vastly

improve education, and serve Tennesseans in ways that will benefit them for generations.

Brooks represents House District 19, which covers primarily the most northern and

eastern areas of Knox County, including Powell, Gibbs, Ritta, Corryton, Carter, and other areas

south of the river.

A House member since 2002, Brooks, 63, is chairman of the House Education

Committee. He also served with former U.S. Sen. Bill Frist on the SCORE (State Collaborative

on Reforming Education) initiative, and is now on the statewide committee for teacher and

principal evaluations.

Among other legislative committee assignments, Brooks serves on Finance Committee,

Joint Fiscal Review, Joint Education Oversight, Calendar & Rules, and Higher Education

Subcommittee.

Throughout my professional career my work dealt with finance and education, Brooks

said. These are the two critical issues for Tennessees future. As goes education, so goes the

economy.

Brooks was finance administrator of the Knox County Sheriffs Department from 1977

2000. He served on the Knox County School Board from 1992 1996. Early in his career he was

a teacher for Grainger County schools, after which he served as an adjunct professor in

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communications and as a counselor at Carson-Newman College (where he earned his Bachelor

of Arts in speech and communications in 1969).

He and his wife, Mary, live in the Ritta Community of Knox County. Their two sons are

Benjamin, 37, and Adam, who is deceased.

Representatives will choose the next House speaker at the opening session of the General

Assembly in January.For information about Rep. Brooks, visit the Tennessee General Assembly website at

www.legislature.state.tn.us.

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For more information, please contact: Rep. Harry Brooks

(615) 741-6879rep.harry.brooks@capitol.tn.gov.