Tennessee is looking for its next attorney general

The Tennessee Supreme Court says it will soon start accepting apps for the state’s open up lawyer normal posture.

Before this year, recent Lawyer Typical Herbert Slatery announced he would not look for a different eight-calendar year phrase as the state’s prime legal counsel. He was the very first Republican to keep the office environment due to the fact Reconstruction.

Tennessee is the only state in the U.S. in which the state’s Supreme Courtroom appoints the lawyer normal. The court’s justices chosen Slatery in 2014 following he beforehand served as previous Republican Gov. Monthly bill Haslam’s main legal counsel.

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The time period for the new attorney standard will get started Sept. 1.

“The lawyer normal and reporter works thoroughly with all 3 branches of Tennessee governing administration and gives government leadership and authorized strategy and counsel to policymakers in the course of the state as perfectly as serving as chief authorized officer,” Chief Justice Roger A. Page stated in a statement. “The court docket seems to be ahead to an open and sturdy process in the variety of the future attorney basic.”

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The courtroom will get started accepting purposes on Friday until eventually midday July 29. A community listening to will then be held to interview the candidates on Aug. 8 and 9.