Having led Tennessee thorugh its toughest employment crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic when state unemployment systems were overwhelmed with claims and had to quickly add systems for federal pandemic unemployment benefits, Tennessee Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development Jeff McCord is one of four finalists for the president’s job at Northeast State Community College.The former head of Kingsport’s Regional Center for Advanced Manufacturing has been Gov. Bill Lee’s labor commissioner since Lee took office in January 2019.