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Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Mar 19, 2026

Retired Henry County General Sessions and Juvenile Court Judge Vicki S. Snyder is the 2026 recipient of the Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth's (TCCY) Jim Pryor Award for Child Advocacy. “I’m humbled and honored by the award,” Snyder said. “A child should be safe, and every child deserves to be somebody’s someone and not be alone. It is in my heart. It’s my purpose.” During her tenure on the bench, Snyder helped develop the county's Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) program and was one of the first juvenile court judges in Tennessee to establish a Safe Baby Court. TCCY awarded the first advocacy award posthumously to Pryor in 1995. Pryor, who died in 1994, was an attorney, a former assistant district attorney, a member of the state Child Sexual Abuse Task Force, and a member of the Northeast Regional Council on Children and Youth. Read more in a press release from the Administrative Office of the Courts.