Members of the Tennessee General Assembly, the Governor’s cabinet, and the Supreme Court will join the state’s constitutional officers and the Attorney General in a major effort to restock Tennessee’s food banks. The “Campaign Against Hunger” event, which is sponsored by state lawmakers in conjunction with Outeach Inc., will take place tomorrow at 10 a.m. in War Memorial Auditorium in Nashville. The group will package approximately 50,000 meals for food banks serving all 95 Tennessee counties. The Chattanoogan has more.

Knox County Criminal Court Clerk Mike Hammond discovered roughly $2.6 million in what he called an "unknown account" upon taking office in early September. The account was set up at least 50 years ago, but there is no documentation itemizing specifically where the money came from. Hammond is looking into a plan to transfer some $1.3 million into the county's general coffers, WBIR reports.

Cleveland Mayor Tom Rowland has been named to the merit selection panel for choosing a new U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Chattanooga, the Cleveland Banner reports. Chattanooga attorney Sam Elliott is serving as chairman of the nine-member panel tasked with filling retiring Magistrate William Carter’s position. Rowland said the initial group of applications had been narrowed and five nominations would be selected from this smaller pool.

Two Brentwood parents who want the right to choose the last name of their newborn son will go to federal court June 9 in their lawsuit against the state of Tennessee. The parents, Carl Abramson and Kim Sarubbi, were denied a request from the Tennessee Department of Health to use a surname that combined both their last names, "Sabr," after they moved to the state in 2014. The lawsuit involves the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee, which claims the state violated the couple's First Amendment rights. Brentwood Homepage has the story.

The influence of social media is creeping into the courtroom more and more, Knoxblogs reports. Facebook and other social media sites are fertile ground for divorce lawyers looking for dirt, while the location feature on Twitter has helped prosecutors in Knox County track and take down gangbangers. However, last week the Tennessee Criminal Court of Appeals delved into a Davidson County murder case in which a juror sent a private Facebook message to a medical examiner with whom he used to work after her testimony. While the court ruled no harm, no foul, the encounter shows that judges need to be mindful of how social media can affect courtroom proceedings.

Hamilton County General Sessions Court Judge Gary Starnes will speak at the Chattanooga Tea Party’s meeting today at 6:30 p.m., the Chattanoogan reports. The meeting will be held at The Century Club Banquet Hall located at 3221 Harrison Pike. Learn more or RSVP at Chattanooga Tea Party’s Facebook page.

The TBA Leadership Law program honored Lewis R. Donelson III Saturday during the 12th annual Leadership Law Opening Retreat. Donelson, founding member of the Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz law firm, has attended the retreat since the program’s inception in 2004. Former TBA President John Tarpley presented Donelson with a plaque in appreciation of his dedication and service to Leadership Law. Donelson spoke to the class of 36 attorneys about his involvement in such historic state events as the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike, school reform and the coup to remove Gov. Ray Blanton.

Tennessee's innovative Online TN Justice pro bono platform is featured in the ABA Pro Bono Year in Review. A joint project of the Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services and the Tennessee Bar Association, the system allows qualified clients to post a legal question and get it answered by private attorneys volunteering their time. The ABA Center for Pro Bono’s tech guru Bill Jones highlighted how the technology platform from, fittingly, the Volunteer State, was being replicated elsewhere. Alabama, Indiana, Minnesota and South Carolina have adopted it to their own needs, while several more states are exploring the idea.

Breaking down racial barriers as the first African-American basketball player in the Southeast Conference also caused Nashville native Perry Wallace to give up a future in engineering to become a lawyer. “Engineering is an excellent profession, and I loved it to death," Wallace said in an interview with the Tennessean, "but after playing basketball at Vanderbilt and seeing what I really needed to do from that point going forward, it just wasn't the best route." Instead, Wallace earned his law degree from Columbia in 1975 and went on to continue his fight for civil change in a manner that better fit his low-key personality. Yesterday also marked the 50th anniversary of the game between Wallace's Pearl High School and Father Ryan -- the first desegregated high school basketball game in Nashville. Several special events  commemorated the event, including games featuring the Pearl-Cohn and Father Ryan basketball teams at Municipal Auditorium.