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Paul Summers
Paul Summers is a former senior judge of the Tennessee Circuit, Criminal, Chancery, and Business Courts. He assumed office on January 1, 2013. He left office on January 1, 2017.
Senior judges are former trial and appellate court judges who may be assigned on a temporary basis to any Tennessee Circuit, Criminal, Chancery, and Business Courts as needed. Senior judges are appointed to four-year terms by the Tennessee Supreme Court.[1]
Education
Summers received his undergraduate degree from Mississippi State University in 1968 and his J.D. from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1972.[2]
Career
From October 2006 until his appointment to the Tennessee Supreme Court, Summers was in private practice with the Nashville law firm of Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis. He also previously served as a judge for the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals from September 1990 to 1999, as the attorney general for the state of Tennessee from January 1999 to September 2006, and as a district attorney for the Twenty-Fifth Judicial District.[2][1][3][4]
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Nashville Post, "Former State AG Moving Back to Bench from Waller," December 4, 2012
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Tennessee Blue Book, "Paul G. Summers," accessed February 19, 2015
- ↑ Tennessee State Courts, "Summers to be sworn in as senior judge December 31," December 26, 2012
- ↑ Nashville Post, "Former state AG moving back to bench from Waller," December 26, 2013
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