Pruitt Marketing Committee Chair of Mississippi River Parkway Commission group

The Mississippi River Parkway Commission, a ten-state organization with a mission to preserve, enhance and promote the Great River Road running along both sides of the Mississippi River from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, held its annual meeting Oct. 23-25 in West Memphis, Ark.
Celebrating its 80-year history in Great River Road projects and improvements, the organization elected a new slate of officers to continue its important work.
The group elected Norma Pruitt, a Kentucky Commissioner and its Marketing Committee Chair, to serve as its Secretary.
Pruitt will continue to serve as Marketing Committee Chair, while also serving on the board’s executive committee as Secretary.

Pruitt, who serves as the director of the Retail Entrepreneurial Assistance Program for the Fulton-Hickman County Economic Development Partnership, Inc. and has served since 2014 on the MRPC, said she is excited about the opportunity to serve the MRPC in a new role.
“I have enjoyed tremendously working with representatives from the ten states to market and further develop the travel and tourism opportunities along all the Great River Road. I have learned so much from some of the other states that we have been able to utilize in improving the experience on Kentucky’s Great River Road,” she said.

While serving from 2011 to 2018 as the Executive Director of the Kentucky Great River Region Organization, Inc., a partnership involving Ballard, Carlisle, Hickman and Fulton Counties, Pruitt administered a grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to place signage throughout the entire Purchase region directing travelers to the Great River Road in the river counties, as well as signage throughout those counties providing directions to sites and attractions therein, including the Benge route of the Kentucky Trail of Tears.