TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Amelia Ferrell Knisely on Jan 19, 2016

Former Ninth Judicial District Circuit Court judge hopeful Tom McFarland on Friday asked the Tennessee Supreme Court to hear his appeal of a lower court’s decision to toss out his election loss complaint, Roane County News reports. McFarland filed a complaint in Roane County Chancery Court after he was defeated in 2014 by Mike Pemberton; he claimed Pemberton did not meet the one-year residency requirement to run for judge.