Along with working under Gov. Lee, Milner has also previously served as Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Chief Counsel to Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) and as Associate Deputy Counsel to former TN Gov. Bill Haslam.

Flags over the State Capitol and all state buildings will be flown at full-staff on Inauguration Day before returning to half-staff to continue to mourn Jimmy Carter's death.

President-elect Donald Trump announced Penny Schwinn as his pick for U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education on Saturday.

Lee Greenwood will perform “God Bless the U.S.A.” at President-elect Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again Rally in downtown Washington on Sunday as well as the swearing-in ceremony Monday.

Penny Schwinn, one of former University of Florida President Ben Sasse’s hires, is headed to the White House. President Donald Trump announced on Friday that she would be Deputy Secretary of Education.

Erica Meltzer is National Editor at Chalkbeat, where she covers education policy and politics. Erica was a founding editor of the local news site Denverite. Before that, she covered everything from housing and energy policy to crime and courts for newspapers in three states. She served in the Peace Corps in Paraguay.

President-elect Donald Trump announced Penny Schwinn as his pick for U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education on Saturday.

President-elect Donald Trump nominated Penny Schwinn, who headed Tennessee’s Department of Education for five years, for deputy secretary of education on Saturday as he finalizes his Cabinet before Inauguration Day.

President-elect Donald Trump announced Saturday morning that the next United States Deputy Secretary of Education will be former Tennessee Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn.

Tennessee lawmakers are preparing for a special session that will include immigration-related policies. Specific details are not known yet, but the proposals will likely