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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Oct 7, 2022

Hamilton County Chancellor Pamela Fleenor has taken over as president of the Tennessee Judicial Conference, the Administrative Office of the Courts reports. Fleenor is the third woman to hold the position and the first judge from Chattanooga to be elected president in 30 years. Among her goals for the year are to restore and increase public confidence and trust in the court system, and to reconnect judges who lacked fellowship with their colleagues during the pandemic. “The relationships are priceless,” she said. “Judges cannot talk about cases to anyone because it is confidential — not lawyers, not your family. But you can talk to other judges.” Fleenor is a Chattanooga native. She earned her law degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Law and was a trial practitioner before running for chancellor in 2014.