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Commission names legacy‑award nominees and appoints selection and officer committees
Summary
Commissioners nominated three candidates for the TWRA legacy award and appointed a committee to choose the winner; the commission also appointed a committee to recommend officers for next year.
The Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commission accepted nominations for the agency’s legacy award and appointed committees to select a winner and to recommend officers for the coming year.
Nominations reported on the record included Terry and Jane Lewis (previously nominated), Jim Carmichael (nominated during the meeting), and Tom Rice (nominated by Commissioner Bill Cox). A commissioner who spoke on record about Jim Carmichael described him as a longtime Outdoor Life editor in his eighties who has fostered relationships in the hunting and outdoors community and recounted a hunting anecdote in support of the nomination; the transcript does not identify that nominating commissioner by name on the record.
Commissioner Rhonda Moody was appointed to chair the legacy‑award selection committee, with Commissioners Wally Childress and Ford Little assisting. The committee will collect nomination information and report back at the February meeting with a selection.
For officer selection after five commissioners depart in February, the chairman appointed Commissioner Chip Saltzman as committee chair and named Commissioner Baloo and a commissioner identified in the transcript as “Bud” to serve; the transcript records those appointments and the commission said it expects the committee to report recommendations at the February meeting.
What was said and next steps
- Commissioner Bill Cox nominated Tom Rice and cited Rice’s youth duck-hunt program, which the nominator said became the largest youth duck hunt in the country and continues in partnership with conservation organizations. - A nominating commissioner described Jim Carmichael’s long career and recommended him for the legacy award. - Commissioner Moody will lead the legacy award committee and report its recommendation next month. The officer‑selection committee will likewise report in February.
The commission did not take a final vote on the award during the meeting; committees were appointed to vet nominations and return with a selection.
