Former State Senator Jeff Mullis has been appointed by Georgia Governor Brian Kemp to the Stone Mountain Memorial Association Board.  The governor made the announcement on Wednesday of this week.

The Stone Mountain Memorial Association (SMMA), a State of Georgia authority, is charged by Georgia law with managing the State owned Stone Mountain Park. The 3,200-acre park anchored by the Confederate Memorial Carving depicting the Civil War figures Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Mullis is the author of the 2019 Monument Protection Bill, which bans the removal of publicly displayed historic memorials and added stricter penalties for vandalism.

Mullis told WZQZ News in 2020 that he authored the bill to preserve the history of Georgia “from our courthouses, to our battlefields to Stone Mountain”.