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Posted by: Kate Prince on Sep 22, 2021

Williamson County District Attorney General Kim Helper this week announced that she will be running for re-election in 2022, the Williamson Herald reports. Helper was appointed and then elected to the position in 2008, becoming the first female district attorney general in the 21st Judicial District’s history. She was reelected in 2014 and is one of only four female district attorney generals in the state. During her tenure, Helper has assisted in the addition of DUI and Veterans courts and enhanced the prosecution of crimes against women and DUI offenses by adding staff dedicated to those cases. Helper was appointed to former Gov. Bill Haslam’s Sentencing & Recidivism task force and in 2019 was appointed to Gov. Bill Lee’s Tennessee State Criminal Justice Investment Task Force.