Middleton High and Bolivar Central High Schools Recognized by Tennessee Secretary of State
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett recently announced that 51 high schools in 40 counties across the state have earned the Anne Dallas Dudley Award by meeting student voter registration thresholds.
Middleton High School earned the 2024 Anne Dallas Dudley Gold Level Award for registering 100 percent of its eligible students to vote. The school also earned the award in 2023.
Bolivar Central High School earned silver-level status for registering 85 percent of its eligible students to vote.
“Congratulations to the students, faculty, and staff at all of these fine academic institutions, as well as the hardworking members of local county election commissions for their committed work to increase voter registration in their communities,” said Secretary Hargett. “The Secretary of State’s office created the Anne Dallas Dudley Award program to encourage all eligible high school students across the state to increase both registration and participation. I hope all who are newly registered students remain lifelong voters.”
The Secretary of State’s Anne Dallas Dudley Award launched in 2021, and it is named after Tennessee suffragist Anne Dallas Dudley. Dudley was instrumental in the successful efforts to ratify the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution nationally and in her home state. On August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th and final state needed to pass the amendment giving all women the right to vote.
All public, charter, private schools, and home school associations were eligible to participate in the third annual Anne Dallas Dudley Award Program.
This award is part of the Secretary of State’s Civics Engagement initiative to increase voter registration in our state and prepare students to become actively engaged citizens. For more information about the Anne Dallas Dudley Award and other civic engagement efforts, visit sos.tn.gov/civics.
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