Lisa Nidiffer Rice
Lisa Nidiffer Rice is a judge of the First Judicial District Criminal Court, which presides over Carter, Johnson, Unicoi, and Washington counties in Tennessee.[1] She was elected to the court on August 7, 2014, and began serving on September 1. Her current term expires in 2022.[2]
Elections
2014
See also: Tennessee judicial elections, 2014
Rice ran for election to the First Judicial District Criminal Court.
Primary: She was successful in the Republican primary on May 6, 2014, receiving 66.0 percent of the vote. She competed against Dennis Brooks.
General: She won without opposition in the general election on August 7, 2014.
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Education
Rice received her undergraduate degree from East Tennessee State University in 1982 and her J.D. from the University of Tennessee Law School in 1987.[4]
Career
From 1998 until her election to the court in 2014, Rice worked as an attorney in private practice in Elizabethton, Tennessee. She has also previously served as a prosecutor for the district attorney general’s office.[4]
See also
External links
- Tennessee State Courts, "Trial Court Judges"
- Tennessee State Courts, "Tennessee Judicial District Map"
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Tennessean.com, "List of candidates in May primary races," February 21, 2014
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Go Vote TN, "August 7, 2014 Unofficial Election Results," accessed August 7, 2014
- ↑ TN.gov, "Tennessee Secretary of State Unofficial Election Results Carter County Elections," May 6, 2014 (dead link)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Lisa Nidiffer Rice For Criminal Court Judge, Part I, "About Lisa Rice," accessed August 15, 2014
