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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Sep 4, 2020

Warner C. Hassell, the long-time court administrator for the Metropolitan Nashville-Davidson County General Session Court, has announced he will retire effective Sept. 19, the court reported this week. He has served the court for 34 years. To succeed Hassell, the General Sessions Court judges have chosen attorney Kyle Sowell, an 18-year veteran of the Davidson County Circuit Court Clerk’s Office. During his tenure with the clerk’s office, Sowell served as chief clerk of the Probate Court, public information director, chief clerk of the General Sessions Civil Division, and most recently as executive director of the General Sessions Civil Division. Before joining the clerk’s office, Sowell was an assistant state attorney general in the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office. Read more in this release from the court.