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Hazel Horton Goldstein (1947): First female lawyer in Cocke County, Tennessee; C. Vernette Grimes: First African American female to graduate from the Kent School of Law in Nashville (1939) [Davidson County, Tennessee] Martha Craig "Cissy" Daughtrey (1968): First female lawyer in Nashville's U.S. Attorney's Office. She is also the first tenure ...
www .tnmd .uscourts .gov. The United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee (in case citations, M.D. Tenn.) is the federal trial court for most of Middle Tennessee. Based at the Estes Kefauver Federal Building and United States Courthouse in Nashville, it was created in 1839 when Congress added a third district to the state.
Sodomy law. The Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that the state's sodomy statute was unconstitutional in 1996 in the case of Campbell v. Sundquist.. In November 2023, the city of Murfreesboro within Rutherford County, Tennessee formally removed "homosexuality" from its local ordinance that criminalizes it after being ordered to do so by U.S. District Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw on ...
The governor of Tennessee is the head of government of the U.S. state of Tennessee . Tennessee has had 50 governors, including the incumbent, Bill Lee. [1] Seven governors ( John Sevier, William Carroll, Andrew Johnson, Robert Love Taylor, Gordon Browning, Frank G. Clement, and Buford Ellington) have served non-consecutive terms.
Circuit Counties District Attorney 1 Choctaw, Clarke, Washington: Stephen K. Winters (R) 2 Butler, Crenshaw, Lowndes: Charlotte M. Tesmer (D) 3 Barbour, Bullock: Ben ...
William Francis Yardley (1872): [28] First African American male lawyer in Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee. Charles E. Bush: [29] First African American male judge in Montgomery County, Tennessee (1995) General Quarles Boyd: [30] First African American male lawyer in Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee.
Jeffrey Martin Landry (born December 23, 1970) is an American politician and attorney who has served since 2024 as the 57th governor of Louisiana.A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th attorney general of Louisiana from 2016 to 2024 and as the U.S. representative for Louisiana's 3rd congressional district from 2011 to 2013.
1652484 [4] Website. nashville .gov. Nashville is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. Located in Middle Tennessee, it had a population of 689,447 at the 2020 U.S. census. [d] Nashville is the 21st most populous city in the United States, and the fourth most populous city in ...