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Name: Pope, Anne
Current Position: Previous Co-Chair

Anne Breier Pope, who was nominated by President Bush and began serving as the tenth Federal co-chair on February 3, 2003. She is a 1983 graduate of Vanderbilt University with a B.A. in history, and she earned a J.D. from the Cumberland School of Law at Stanford in 1986. From 1987 to 1988 she clerked for U.S. District Judge James D. Todd in Jackson, Tennessee, and after that was an associate attorney with Webster, Chamberlain and Bean in Washington D.C. from 1988 to 1992. For three years Pope was president of the department store group Parks-Belk Company, and in 1995 was she named president of Proffitt's of the Tri-Cities, Inc., a division of Saks, where she remained for two years. In 1997 Pope became the Executive Director of the Tennessee Film, Entertainment, and Music Commission, and in 1999 she began serving in the cabinet of Tennessee Governor Don Sundquist, as Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance.

 
Pope has contributed to the Bush-Cheney ticket, the Tennessee Republican Party, the Tennessee Senate campaigns of Republicans Lamar Alexander, Bob Corker, William Frist, and Fred Thompson, and the Tennessee Congressional campaigns of Republicans William Jenkins and James Henry Quillen.
 
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