Constance Bumgarner Gee is an American scholar, memoirist, animal rights activist, and advocate of the medical use of cannabis.
[1] She critiques aspects of university leadership, discussing instances she perceives as inconsistencies between public image and internal practices.
[3] She later became a tenured Associate Professor of Public Policy and Education in the Department of Leadership and Organizations at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
[8][9] She testified to the Health Committee of the Tennessee House of Representatives in favor of the Safe Access to Medical Cannabis Act in April 2012.
[3] In 2006, an article published in The Wall Street Journal revealed that she had smoked cannabis inside Braeburn, the chancellor's residence located at 211 Deer Park in Belle Meade owned by Vanderbilt University, to alleviate the intense nausea and other debilitating symptoms of Ménière's disease.
[5] In 2004, Bumgarner Gee was criticized for lowering the flag to half-mast at Braeburn after George W. Bush was re-elected as president of the United States.