TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Mar 7, 2024

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti has announced that Solicitor General Andrée Blumstein will leave the office to return to private practice. She will be succeeded by Matt Rice, current special assistant to the solicitor general. In a news release, Skrmetti said, “It’s nearly impossible to express sufficient gratitude to Solicitor General Blumstein for her extraordinary contributions to the great State of Tennessee.” He noted that Blumstein served in the office for nearly a decade and was the first woman solicitor general for the state. Rice, a Johnson City native, joined the AG’s office in June 2022. He previously worked at the Washington, D.C., firm Williams & Connolly and clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. He earned his law degree from University of California Berkeley School of Law.