TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jul 28, 2021

Marcus Floyd, a Nashville public defender and former prosecutor, announced today that he will run for General Sessions Judge Division VII. Growing up in Nashville’s Edgehill Homes and the Mississippi Delta, Floyd says he has personally experienced the poverty and injustice that impacts equity of the justice system. A 2015 graduate of Belmont University College of Law, Floyd has served as a probation officer, judicial law clerk and as criminal justice policy advisor in the Nashville mayor’s office. He also led a study on Nashville’s reliance on criminal justice fines and steered the Nashville Police Department's body camera program through the contract phase. Floyd is married to Amanda S. “Mandy” Floyd, an attorney at Bone McAllester Norton and a graduate of the TBA Young Lawyers Division’s Diversity Leadership Institute. Read the announcement.