{"id":3873,"date":"2017-03-06T17:37:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T17:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/?p=3873"},"modified":"2017-03-06T17:37:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T17:37:24","slug":"v-lynn-evans-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/2017\/03\/06\/v-lynn-evans-2\/","title":{"rendered":"V. Lynn Evans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3874 alignleft\" height=\"235\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/files\/2017\/03\/vlynn.jpg\" title=\"\" width=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/files\/2017\/03\/vlynn.jpg 726w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/files\/2017\/03\/vlynn-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/files\/2017\/03\/vlynn-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 157px) 100vw, 157px\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">\n<p>\n\t\tMemphis accountant V. Lynn Evans was elected&nbsp;<span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Thursday<\/span><\/span>&nbsp;to chair the Tennessee Valley Authority this year as the utility&#039;s board transitions from all Democrats to a majority of Republican directors under incoming President Donald Trump.\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tEvans, who was appointed to the TVA board four years ago after serving as chairwoman of TVA&#039;s biggest customer, is the first African-American to serve as chairperson of TVA in its 83-year history. She is also the first female and first Memphis resident to chair the board.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memphis accountant V. Lynn Evans was elected&nbsp;Thursday&nbsp;to chair the Tennessee Valley Authority this year as the utility&#039;s board transitions from all Democrats to a majority of Republican directors under incoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3875,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/revisions\/3875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}