Memorials, Death - Inez Gibbs Crutchfield -

House Joint Resolution 40 is a commemorative resolution honoring Inez Gibbs Crutchfield, a Nashville educator and civil rights advocate who died in 2025. The resolution recognizes her decades-long work as a health education professor at Tennessee State University, her pivotal role in the 1960s sit-ins, and her historic leadership as the first African-American woman president of the Davidson County Democratic Party Women's Club and Tennessee's first Black woman on the Democratic National Committee. It also highlights her community service, including roles on the Bethlehem Center and Meharry Medical College boards, and her receipt of the Athena Award in 1994. The resolution formally pays tribute to her legacy of equality and public service.