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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. The current office holder is Jonathan Skrmetti, who was appointed in 2022 by the 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]
The Tennessee Attorney General's office hired a former U.S. attorney earlier this summer to "review" Tennessee State University financials and corporate governance, a probe TSU said its newly ...
The attorney general’s office also denied that the law curtails voters' rights. McKay was convicted of two murders during a robbery in Memphis and sentenced to death 40 years ago.
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti is cautiously optimistic about the future success of his Supreme Court gender case after he secured another legal win in Kentucky that will reverse the ...
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.
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti speaks during a news conference on the steps of the John Sevier State Office Building on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn.
The Tennessee Attorney General's Office regularly appoints external counsel in certain cases, outsourcing legal work even as the office's payroll rose to $53 million this year.