TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Feb 11, 2022

Judge David F. Hensley has announced his retirement from the Tennessee Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board effective March 31. He has served on the board for close to eight years. Hensley earned his law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1979, and began his career in Chattanooga clerking for Tennessee Court of Appeals Judge Herschel P. Franks. He then spent over 30 years in private practice before being appointed to the inaugural Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board by then Gov. Bill Haslam in August 2014. He was re-appointed by Haslam in 2018. Off the bench, Hensley has served the Chattanooga community as a board member and chair of the North River YMCA and a board member of the Ronald McDonald House Charities.