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Posted by: Amelia Ferrell Knisely on Sep 14, 2015

Boyd Patterson, a Chattanooga assistant district attorney and former director of the city’s Gang Task Force, submitted papers to run for criminal court judge in in the upcoming March election, The Chattanoogan reports. Patterson will run as a Republican. "I look forward to applying on the bench that experience and the knowledge I gained while working with the Gang Task Force,” he said. Patterson was among three initial finalists for the vacancy created by Judge Rebecca Stern’s retirement in Division Two, but Gov. Haslam later requested three more names to be presented by a judicial selection panel and has yet to make a selection.