TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on May 31, 2023

State Rep. Gloria Johnson, D-Knoxville, told the Chattanooga Times Free Press that she is seriously considering running against U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn in the 2024 election. "I am considering it, yes," Johnson told the paper. "There have been a whole lot of people, very serious people, asking me to do it. And so I told them I would seriously consider doing it.” Blackburn, a Republican, was elected to the Senate in 2018 after serving 16 years in the U.S. House of Representatives. Johnson recently gained national attention after she was nearly expelled from the Tennessee General Assembly for protesting for gun reform on the House floor as part of the "Tennessee Three."