TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Jan 3, 2023

Gov. Bill Lee has appointed Frank Strada of Arizona as the new Tennessee Department of Correction commissioner, the Tennessean reports. Strada currently serves as the deputy director for Arizona Department of Corrections, where he oversees prison operations, inmate programs, public affairs, facilities management and financial services. He is an Air Force veteran with 34 years of corrections management and law enforcement experience. Lee promised he would take decisive actions, including a TDOC leadership change, after a third-party report found the state failed to follow its own death penalty protocols. Strada, who will succeed Interim Commissioner Lisa Helton, is set to begin on Jan. 9.