2023 TBA Election Information

In accordance with Section 42(a) of the TBA Bylaws, TBA Interim Executive Director Barry Kolar has certified that the following members are duly qualified for election to the office named.

TBA Board of Governors and ABA Delegate Positions

Uncontested Positions

No contest exists for these offices and the TBA Board of Governors may declare them automatically elected:

Vice President, East Tennessee (One-Year Term)
• Heidi Barcus, Knoxville

Grand Division Governor, Middle Tennessee (One-Year Term)
• Billy Leslie, Nashville

Grand Division Governor, West Tennessee (One-Year Term)
• Will Perry, Memphis

Governor, Fifth District - Position 1 (Three-Year Term)
• Amy Bryant, Nashville

Governor, Seventh District (Three-Year Term)
• Matt Willis, Dyersburg

TBA Delegate to the ABA House of Delegates, Position 1
• Jonathan Cole, Nashville

TBA Delegate to the ABA House of Delegates, Position 3 (Young Lawyers Division)
• Judge Alex McVeagh, Chattanooga

Contested Positions

Second District Governor (Three-Year Term)

• Ben Jones, Knoxville

• Andy Roskind, Knoxville

Grand Division Governor, East Tennessee (One-Year Term, Top 2 Elected)

• Brittany Faith, Chattanooga

• David McDowell, Chattanooga

• Deborah Yeomans-Barton, Johnson City

Vacancies

At the April meeting of the Board of Governors, the Board may declare that a vacancy will exist in the following positions:

• Grand Division Governor, West Tennessee (One-Year Term)
This division qualifies for two seats on the TBA Board of Governors. Only one candidate filed for the positions, leaving a vacancy.

• Grand Division Governor, Middle Tennessee (One-Year Term)
This division qualifies for two seats on the TBA Board of Governors. Only one candidate filed for the positions, leaving a vacancy.

In accordance with Article 47 of the TBA Bylaws, the Board of Governors may fill this vacancy at its next meeting.

TBA House of Delegates

Uncontested Positions 

No contest exists for these offices and the TBA House of Delegates may declare them automatically elected to terms beginning after the meeting of the House of Delegates on June 14, 2023 and ending at the conclusion of the meeting of the House in June 2027:

• First District: Deborah Yeomans-Barton
• Second District: Meredith Humbert
• Third District: Doug Collins
• Fifth District: Cathy Morton
• Sixth District: Debra House (Secretary) and Jerry Martin
• Eighth District: Philip Kazee
• Tenth District: Bridget Willhite
• Eleventh District: Pat Vital
• Twelfth District: Mark Raines
• Thirteenth District: Hank Fincher
• Fifteenth District: Lisa Cothron
• Eighteenth District: Russ Edwards
• Nineteenth District: John Holt
• Twentieth District: David Goudie
• Twenty-First District: Rebecca Blair
• Twenty-Third District: Jennifer Noe
• Twenty-Seventh District: Steve Conley
• Twenty-Ninth District: Matt Willis
• Thirtieth District: Charlotte Knight Griffin (Speaker)
• YLD East: Logan Threadgill

Contested Positions

A contested election exists for these positions:

Fourth Judicial District:

• Evan Newman
• Alex Johnson

Sixteenth Judicial District:

• Charles Frazier
• Ted Goodman

Thirtieth Judicial District

• Pamela Kelly
• Asia Diggs Meador

Vacancies

No candidate filed a declaration of candidacy for the following districts.  Therefore, the Speaker, Deputy Speaker and Secretary are charged with filling any district vacancy which may be created when no candidate qualifies for district delegates.  The TBA YLD fills the Young Lawyer delegate vacancies.

• Fifth District
• Seventh District
• Ninth District
• Eleventh District
• Fourteenth District
• Seventeenth District
• Twentieth District
• Twenty-Second District
• Twenty-Fourth District
• Twenty-Fifth District
• Twenty-Sixth District
• Twenty-Eighth District
• Thirty-First District
• YLD Middle
• YLD West