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Senate
Resolution 629
By:
Senators Williams of the 19th, Rogers of the 21st, Brown of the 26th and Golden
of the 8th
A
RESOLUTION
Recognizing
and expressing gratitude and best wishes to Mildred Slayton; and for other
purposes.
WHEREAS,
Ms. Mildred Slayton is nearing the end of a career of outstanding and exemplary
service to the State of Georgia and its people and will be retiring in the near
future; and
WHEREAS,
she first entered state service in 1976 with the Georgia Department of Human
Resources and transferred to the Governor's Office in 1983, where she served
with distinction as office manager and assistant to the chief of staff to
Governor Joe Frank Harris; and
WHEREAS,
in 1991, Ms. Slayton transferred to the Lieutenant Governor's Office, where she
has served as a trusted personal assistant to Lieutenant Governors Pierre
Howard, Mark Taylor, and Casey Cagle and has become one of the most respected
and admired figures around the Georgia Senate; and
WHEREAS,
she is well known for the intelligence, competence, compassion, courtesy, and
devotion to duty which she brings to her important work; and
WHEREAS,
the members of the Senate, present and past, have been blessed to have had the
friendship of this wonderful lady over her more than 30 years of illustrious
public service and are deeply appreciative of the great credit she has reflected
on the State of Georgia.
NOW,
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE that the members of this body do hereby
join in recognizing Mildred Slayton and expressing to her their deepest
gratitude and best wishes for the future.
BE
IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate is authorized and directed
to transmit an appropriate copy of this resolution to Ms. Mildred Slayton.