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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Feb 9, 2022

Tennessee’s finance commissioner and former Nashville businessman Butch Eley was appointed deputy to the governor today, the Nashville Business Journal reports. The position was previously held by Lang Wiseman who returned to the private sector in January as a shareholder in Baker Donelson’s advocacy department. Eley founded Infrastructure Corporation of America in 1998 and was CEO of the company for nearly two decades. He later served as chief growth officer of DBi Services, an infrastructure management company. In 2018, he chaired Gov. Bill Lee’s transition team. According to a statement from the governor’s office, Eley will continue serving as Department of Finance and Administration commissioner, a role he has held since 2020.