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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Feb 2, 2022

Rutherford County senior judicial commissioner Jacob Flatt is withdrawing as a Republican candidate for juvenile court judge, the Daily News Journal reports. The move leaves Travis Lampley, who is running as a Republican, and Andrae Crismon, who is running as an independent, to seek the seat being vacated by Juvenile Court Judge Donna Scott Davenport, who announced in January that she would not seek re-election. Lampley is an assistant district attorney for the 16th Judicial District and works on cases involving children and adults in Cannon County. A graduate of the Appalachian School of Law, Lampley started his career as a prosecutor in the Davidson County District Attorney's Office and as general counsel for the Department of Children’s Services. Crismon recently left Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands where he worked for nearly 15 years, serving eight years as managing attorney and finally as director of the Volunteer Lawyers Program.