Members of the Tennessee General Assembly, the Governor’s cabinet, and the Supreme Court will join the state’s constitutional officers and the Attorney General in a major effort to restock Tennessee’s food banks. The “Campaign Against Hunger” event, which is sponsored by state lawmakers in conjunction with Outeach Inc., will take place tomorrow at 10 a.m. in War Memorial Auditorium in Nashville. The group will package approximately 50,000 meals for food banks serving all 95 Tennessee counties. The Chattanoogan has more.

Hamilton County General Sessions Court Judge Gary Starnes will speak at the Chattanooga Tea Party’s meeting today at 6:30 p.m., the Chattanoogan reports. The meeting will be held at The Century Club Banquet Hall located at 3221 Harrison Pike. Learn more or RSVP at Chattanooga Tea Party’s Facebook page.

Montgomery County General Sessions Court Judge Kenneth R. Goble Jr. and the Veterans Treatment Court he oversees will hold a graduation ceremony for those completing the program, Business & Heritage Clarksville reports. The event will take place Jan. 27 at 1 p.m. at the Montgomery County Court Complex in Clarksville. State Rep. Curtis Johnson, R-Clarksville, will be the guest speaker.

Legal and community groups in Nashville will host a mayoral forum Feb. 3 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at the Nashville Public Library, 615 Church St. All announced candidates have been invited to attend this non-partisan, educational event. A reception will follow the program. Groups sponsoring the event include the National Bar Association, Lawyers’ Association for Women, Napier-Looby Bar Association and Nashville Public Radio.

The January installment of Lipscomb University’s HumanDocs Film Series will be "Kids for Cash," which screens Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. in the Shamblin Theater. The film centers on the story of former Pennsylvania juvenile judge Mark Ciavarella, sentenced to 28 years after receiving millions of dollars from private juvenile detention facilities where he was assigning kids. While the documentary offers a surprisingly nuanced portrait of Ciavarella, it also explores general issues with the U.S. juvenile justice system. A panel discussion will include Preston Shipp, attorney and former prosecutor, and Phyllis Hildreth, academic director of Lipscomb’s Institute for Conflict Management. The event is free and open to the public. For more information contact Ted Parks.

The Lipscomb Legal Clinic will hold its first advice clinic of 2015 on Jan. 20 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the St. James Missionary Baptist Church. Volunteers are needed. Contact Randy Spivey, academic director for the school’s Institute for Law, Justice and Society, at (615) 966-2503 for more information or download this flyer.

Vanderbilt University Law School will present its Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture on Jan. 12, noon to 1 p.m., with Northwestern University Department of History Professor Dylan Penningroth speaking on "Faith and Property in African American History." The event is open to the public and lunch will be served. See a list of other Vanderbilt events for its week of MLK commemoration.

Retired Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Janice Holder will be one of five individuals presented with honorary degrees from the University of the South at a convocation service Jan. 16 at noon in All Saints’ Chapel. Holder also will be inducted into the school’s academic honor society. The service will be streamed live for those unable to attend.

Justice at Stake will host an educational webinar on Jan. 15 at 1 p.m. Eastern Time on the case of Williams-Yulee v. The Florida Bar, which looks at whether states may place restrictions on how judges and judicial candidates raise money. The case will be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 20. Register online for the presentation “Judging Under the Influence: Will the Supreme Court Protect Fair Courts?”

An investiture ceremony for Judges Robert L. Holloway Jr. and Timothy L. Easter – both of whom recently joined the Court of Criminal Appeals – will take place Monday at 10 a.m. in the Old Supreme Court Chambers of the state capitol in Nashville. Gov. Bill Haslam will administer the oath of office. Judge Holloway was named to the appeals court after serving on the 22nd Judicial District Circuit Court. Judge Easter previously served on the 21st Judicial District Circuit Court. Download the invitation.