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Carolyn is a former U.S. Senate Counsel to the Committee on Environment and Public Works and the Committee on Governmental Affairs (now Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs). She has degrees from the University of Tennessee in Biomedical Engineering and Law.

She lives on the family farm in East Knox County, Tennessee, and has seven stray animals (four dogs and three cats).

Carolyn is a popular speaker on television, radio, and in person.

Carolyn Jourdan

Travels from: Strawberry Plains, TN

Miles willing to travel: 500

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Topics: Memoir, Comedy, Humor, Appalachia, Politics, Medicine, Spirituality, Medical, Autobiography, Biography, Healthcare, Health, Women, Sandwich Generation, Government, Washington

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      • Heart in the Right Place Details
        The true story of a spoiled, high-powered Washington lawyer (me) who is forced to leave her glamorou...
        Heart in the Right Place
        The true story of a spoiled, high-powered Washington lawyer (me) who is forced to leave her glamorous job at the Senate and come back home to the Smoky Mountains to work as an unpaid and inept receptionist in her father's tiny medical office. Comedy, pathos, and bad reception follow.

        Algonquin Books

        $14.95

        Subject: Memoir

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