SJR111 Summary

• Commends Senator Malika Sanders-Fortier on her retirement at the conclusion of the 2019-2022 legislative quadrennium and her service to Alabama.

• Recognizes Sanders-Fortier as Alabama's first woman senator from the Black Belt region and highlights her background as daughter of state senator Hank Sanders (35 years service) and civil rights activist Faya Rose Toure'.

• Notes her education at Spelman College (Psychology degree) and Birmingham School of Law, and her role as managing partner of law firm Chestnut, Sanders, and Sanders, L.L.C.

• Acknowledges her work with the 21st Century Youth Leadership Movement as a product of the organization and its former executive director, and her dedication to building the "enlightened Beloved Community" as envisioned by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Directs presentation of the resolution to Senator Sanders-Fortier as a token of the Legislature's esteem and gratitude for her service both within and outside the State House.