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The Tennessee Attorney General (officially, Attorney General and Reporter) is the chief law enforcement officer and lawyer for the U.S. state of Tennessee. [2] The office of the attorney general is located at the state capitol in Nashville, Tennessee.
Skrmetti was appointed by the Tennessee Supreme Court to serve an eight-year term on August 10, 2022, and was sworn in on September 1, 2022. [11] Tennessee is the only state in the country where the State Supreme Court appoints the attorney general as a non-partisan member of the Judicial Branch. [12]
Paul G. Summers (born March 28, 1950) served as attorney general of the state of Tennessee, United States, from 1999 through September 2006.He previously served as a Judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals (1990–1999) and as a District Attorney.
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti speaks with The Jackson Sun pertaining the state's lawsuit against popular social media websites inside First United Methodist in Jackson, Tenn., on ...
The Supreme Court of Tennessee chose Slatery to succeed Robert E. Cooper Jr. as attorney general on September 15, 2014. [3] He was sworn in on October 1. [4] In April 2016, Slatery argued that an anti-transgender discrimination bill would cost the state of Tennessee millions in federal funding. [5]
Paul Charles Ney Jr. (born June 6, 1958) is an American lawyer who served as the General Counsel of the Department of Defense of the United States from 2018 to 2021. [4] He previously served as Acting General Counsel of the Navy and as the Chief Deputy Attorney General of Tennessee. [5]
The Tennessee Attorney General is the state's chief legal officer and works to represent all of the state government. The Attorney General employs around 340 people across five offices around the state. The Tennessee Supreme Court appoints the Attorney General, a method not found in any of the other 49 states.
Robert Elbert Cooper Jr. (born January 19, 1957) is an American lawyer who served as Attorney General of the state of Tennessee.A Democrat, [2] Cooper Jr. was appointed by the state supreme court to that position and was sworn in as the 26th Attorney General and Reporter of Tennessee by Tennessee Supreme Court Chief Justice William M. Barker, taking office on November 1, 2006.