Education
Don McLeary attended the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, working to obtain Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees.
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Don McLeary
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He currently works as an investment executive and has served on the boards of both the American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association. From 1986 to 1996, Don McLeary was the head football coach for the University of Tennessee at Martin. He is the third winningest coach in Utah Martin history, leading Utah Martin to a shared Gulf South Conference Championship and the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II Quarterfinals.
He was inducted into the Utah Martin Athletics Hall of Fame in October 2006.
Don McLeary served as the vice chair of the Senate Education Committee. In 2010, McLeary lost to Finney again, receiving 24,563 votes to Finney"s 25,774.
Achievements
Politics
McLeary was one of 29 state senators that voted to place a proposal amend the state constitution to ban gay marriage on the November 2006 gubernatorial election ballot. He was also one of 24 state senators to favor putting on the ballot a proposal to remove any guarantees to the right to an abortion from the state constitution. The proposal later failed to pass a panel in Tennessee House of Representatives.
After holding a town hall meeting, McLeary proposed legislation that would direct the Tennessee Commissioner of Commerce and Insurance to develop a proposal to create an insurance pool to provide full coverage to residential and commercial property owners that are unable to obtain insurance coverage following widespread cancellation after a natural disaster.
The bill, passed in April 2004, was co-sponsored by Roscoe Dixon in the state senate and by Johnny Shaw and Jimmy Eldridge in the House.
Membership
He was a member of the Tennessee Senate representing the 27th district, which is composed of Madison, Gibson, and Carroll counties. He was also a member of the Senate Commerce, Labor and Agriculture Committee and the Senate Environment, Conservation and Tourism Committee.
