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Posted by: Kate Prince on Feb 1, 2022

In a private ceremony yesterday, Jill E. McCook took her oath of office and became the newest U.S. magistrate judge in the U.S. Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, the Chattanoogan reports. She succeeds Magistrate Judge H. Bruce Guyton, who retired after serving the court since 2003. McCook has worked as an attorney for the Tennessee Valley Authority for the past four years. Previously, she was in private practice, served as a law clerk to District Judge Thomas A. Varlan, and was an adjunct professor in legal process at the University of Tennessee College of Law. McCook is a TBA member and a 2018 graduate of the TBA Leadership Law program. A public investiture will take place in the coming months.