FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE		CONTACT: MURFY ALEXANDER
JUNE 27, 2006		ANNE SMART
		615.736.5295

COL. DON DEERING JOINS U.S. REP. COOPER’S STAFF

 

NASHVILLE — Colonel (Ret.) Don Deering, former Executive Director of the National Guard Association of Tennessee, has joined the office of U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper. He will work out of Cooper’s office in downtown Nashville as a community liaison representative.

”Colonel Deering has served in leadership positions for the Tennessee National Guard for more than a decade,” Cooper said. “His knowledge of the day to day operations of the Guard as well as his experience helping Guard members and their families will be a great addition to my staff. I am honored that he has chosen to work with me to serve the needs of folks in the 5 th Congressional District.”

From 1994 until his retirement in April 2006, Col. Deering served as Executive Director of the National Guard Association of Tennessee and represented the approximately 15,000 Tennessee National Guard members on issues relating to the Guard on the local, state and federal levels.

He is a member of the National Guard Association of Tennessee, National Guard Association of the United States, where he serves as a member of the Board of Directors and Insurance Trust, and a member of the National Guard Executive Directors Association.

During his almost forty years of military service as an office and enlisted solder, Colonel Deering has served in various command and staff positions which included commanding an Armor Battalion, and during Operation Desert Storm he served as Mobilization Readiness Chief for Tennessee. At the time of his retirement from the service in 1994, he was Commandant of the Tennessee Military Academy.

Raised in Madison, TN, Colonel Deering attended Madison High School before graduating from Officers Candidate School in 1961, Armor Officer Basic in 1962, CBR in 1974, Armor Officer Advance in 1977 and Command & General Staff College in 1981.

He lives in Goodlettsville with his wife, the former Antonia Joyce Gambill of Old Hickory, TN. They have one son, Michael Ray Deering.

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