TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Oct 19, 2021

Nashville attorney Danielle Nellis has announced that she will run for Nashville district attorney, Axios Nashville reports. Nellis worked as a prosecutor in current Nashville DA Glenn Funk’s office and says her time there taught her "how crime impacts victims and families involved on all sides, as well as how the community at large is impacted." She resigned from the position in 2018 after it was revealed that she had applied for the job of a man she was prosecuting. Funk alerted the Board of Professional Responsibility to the issue, but the board found no ethical issues with Nellis’ actions. A Boston University School of Law graduate, Nellis spent two years clerking for Judge Angelita Blackshear Dalton and recently joined the firm of Klein Solomon Mills. Nellis is the first to challenge Funk for his position since his election in 2014.