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Commends and congratulates Mrs. Panny Flautt Mayfield, a lifelong Mississippi Delta resident, for being named a 2023 Noel Polk Lifetime Achievement Award Nominee

Recognizes her 43-year journalism career as reporter and featured editor at the Clarksdale Press Register (until 2000) and director of public relations at Coahoma Community College (until 2013)

Acknowledges her award-winning work documenting blues and gospel music, playwright Tennessee Williams, and Delta life, earning more than 30 awards from the Associated Press, Mississippi Press Association, and other organizations

Honors her 2017 published book "Live from the Mississippi Delta" featuring over 200 photographs and her founding and direction of the Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams Festival from 1993 to 2018

Directs that copies of the resolution be furnished to Mrs. Mayfield and members of the Capitol Press Corps