State Representative Jenny Horne – The Fight to Remove the Confederate Flag

March 15, 2016 – This week our speaker was State Representative Jenny Horne who is running for Congress and who came into national attention this past summer when she made an impassioned speech before the South Carolina House of Representatives imploring her colleagues to remove the Confederate Flag from the Statehouse.  Representative Horne is a graduate of the University of South Carolina where she obtained her undergraduate education as well as her law degree in 1997.  She and her husband and children live in Summerville and she is a fellow Rotarian, having been named Rookie of the Year in 2006 in the Summerville Oakbrook Breakfast Rotary Club.  Representative Horne has been named Legislator of the Year by the YMCA, the Charleston Trident Home Builders Association and the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce.  She was voted one of the fifty greatest influencers of government in 2015.   Continue reading “State Representative Jenny Horne – The Fight to Remove the Confederate Flag”