August 2023 Group Watch: Speaker Ledbetter Chair-Elect of the Council of State Governments Southern Office
Alabama Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter was unanimously elected to serve as the 2023-2024 chair-elect of the Council of State Governments Southern Office at the Southern Legislative Conference (SLC) in Charleston, South Carolina in July. As chair-elect, Speaker Ledbetter will assist the incoming chair, West Virginia Senate President Craig Blair, in guiding CSG South during the coming year. He will also serve as chair of the 79th SLC Annual Meeting, to be held in Alabama in the summer of 2025. The purpose of this meeting is to provide Southern state lawmakers with the opportunity to work together to create more effective public policy so their home states are better served.