Madelyn Scales Harris

Madelyn Scales Harris
Member of the Murfreesboro City Council
Assumed office
May 2010

Madelyn Scales Harris is an American politician and city council member.[1] She was elected to the Murfreesboro, Tennessee City Council in 2010[2] and re-elected in 2014.[3]

Her mother Mary Scales was the first black faculty member at Middle Tennessee State University.[4][5] Her father Robert W. Scales was the first African-American city councilman and first African-American Vice-Mayor of Murfreesboro.[6][7]

Harris is a graduate of Middle Tennessee State University, and is retired from State Farm Insurance where she worked as a business account underwriter.[8] 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.[9][10]

References

  1. ↑ "City Council". Murfreesboro TN. City of Murfreesboro. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
  2. ↑ Willard, Michelle (25 April 2010). "Service above self: Harris unseats Edwards in city council race". The Murfreesboro Post (thepost, online). Retrieved 5 May 2015.
  3. ↑ REPORT, STAFF (15 April 2014). "McFarland elected Mayor of Murfreesboro". The Murfreesboro Post. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
  4. ↑ 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 , and , accessed 5 May 2015.
  5. ↑ LegiScan. TN SR0067 | 2013-2014 | 108th General Assembly. 06 February 2014, see , accessed May 05, 2015.
  6. ↑ 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 , and , accessed 5 May 2015.
  7. ↑ Tennessee Secretary of State. TN SJR0054 | 2000-2001 | 102nd General Assembly. 01 March 2001, see , accessed May 05, 2015.
  8. ↑ Ragland-Hudgins, Mealand (11 February 2015). "Unity luncheon honors service". The Daily News Journal. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
  9. ↑ Revis, Brandi (May 29, 2011). "Family legacy". The Murfreesboro Post. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
  10. ↑ "Murfreesboro, Tennessee’s 1st Black Business Now In 4th Generation". Black Enterprise. Retrieved 20 February 2015.


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