Career
He serves on the Energy Resources and Land & Resource Management committees. Paddie is a former mayor, and city comissioner of Marshall in Harrison County and the current general manager of KMHT radio, for which he hosts a daily talk show. He has never voted to raise taxes while on the city commission.
As mayor he worked to make the city fiscally sound during the national recession.
He is the former chairman of the Greater Marshall Chamber of Commerce and president of the Boys and Girls Club of the Big Pines.
