TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Apr 13, 2015

The state Senate was scheduled to vote today on an issue that has become familiar in judicial politics: electing Tennessee’s state attorney general. Sen. Mae Beavers, R- Mt. Juliet, who unsuccessfully tried to pass a similar measure twice last year, is calling for an amendment to the state’s constitution to make the position subject to public election beginning in 2020. The resolution (SJR 63) is co-sponsored by Lee Harris, D-Memphis. Read more in the Memphis Business Journal.