TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jan 31, 2022

When the Tennessee legislature voted to combine Knoxville’s two Democratic-leaning state House districts, they effectively carved Rep. Gloria Johnson’s home out of the district she currently represents. Johnson now says she is moving to the newly created District 90 to run again, Knoxnews reports. Much of her current District 13 will be part of the new district. Johnson says she did not want to challenge Democratic Rep. Sam McKenzie, the region’s lone Black representative in the General Assembly, in a redrawn District 15 so moving was the best option.