Longtime Tennessee Lawmaker Lois DeBerry Passes Away at 68
The State’s longest serving member of the House of Representatives, Rep. Lois DeBerry (D-Memphis), passed away on Sunday after nearly a five-year battle with pancreatic cancer. Rep. DeBerry, 68, was first elected in 1972 and was a trailblazer in Tennessee politics. She was the second African-American woman to serve in the General Assembly and the … Continued
