TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Brittany Sims on Jan 20, 2015

Tennessee’s General Assembly is predominantly white, Christian males, a new report shows. Nashville Public Radio analyzed lawmakers’ official profiles and campaign websites and found that 83 percent of them are men, 86 percent are white and 96 percent self-identified as Christian. Vanderbilt political science professor Bruce Oppenheimer said the lack of female lawmakers was more disparate and surprising since women make up half the state’s population.