Fields wins District 2; Hullander new trustee
Political neophyte Jim Fields defeated three-term District 2 Hamilton County Commissioner Richard Casavant among contested races Tuesday night.
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Staff photo by Jake Daniels/Chattanooga Times Free Press Jim Fields laughs with supporters Susan and Mike Doubleday at Four Corners Business Center on Tuesday night while they wait for election results.
Elsewhere, District 9 Commissioner Bill Hullander knocked off incumbent Carl Levi in the Republican primary race for trustee. He had no Democrat opposition.
Other primary winners among commissioners were incumbent Republican Fred Skillern in District 1, incumbent Democrat Warren Mackey in District 4, incumbent Democrat Greg Beck in District 5, incumbent Republican Larry Henry in District 7, Republican Tim Boyd in District 8 and Republican Hamilton County School Board member Chester Bankston in District 9.
Primary wins set up contested races in District 6 between incumbent Democrat John Allen Brooks and Republican Joe Graham and between Mr. Boyd, a Republican, and Democrat Kenny Smith.
The general election is Aug. 5.
Republican Jim Coppinger in District 4 was unopposed for reelection. He will be unopposed on the Aug. 5 ballot.
Hamilton County Mayor Claude Ramsey also cruised to victory. He will face an independent candidate, Richard Ford, in the Aug. 5 primary.
In August, incumbent Republican Sheriff Jim Hammond will face Lloyd “Bodie” Clendenen, incumbent County Clerk W.F. “Bill” Knowles will face R. Chester Heathington, incumbent Democrat Juvenile County Clerk Ron Swafford will face Gary Behler and incumbent Republican Register of Deeds will face Democrat Jeff Brown.
Incumbent Democrat Circuit Court Clerk Paula Thompson and incumbent Democrat Criminal Court Clerk Gwen Tidwell were unopposed Tuesday and will be unopposed on the Aug. 5 ballot.
Chris Carroll covers politics for the Times Free Press. A Chattanooga native, he graduated from Red Bank High School in 2005 and earned a bachelor’s degree in history from East Tennessee State University in 2009. Chris has investigated violent crime, hospitals, Red Bank politics and East Ridge politics since joining the newspaper in January 2010. For a jailhouse interview story with accused murderer Antonio Henry, he won a third place Tennessee Associated Press Managing Editors ...
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Perla Trevizo joined the Chattanooga Times Free Press in 2007 and covers immigration/diversity issues and higher education. She holds a master’s degree in newswire journalism from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, Spain, and a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Texas. In 2011 she participated in the Bringing Home the World international reporting fellowship program sponsored by the International Center for Journalists, producing a series on Guatemalan immigrants for which she ...
Dan Whisenhunt covers Hamilton County government for the Times Free Press. A native of Mobile, Ala., Dan earned a degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Alabama. He won first place for best in-depth news coverage in the 2010 Alabama Press Association contest; the FOI-First Amendment Award in the 2007 Alabama Press Association contest; first place for best public service story in the Alabama AP Managing Editors contest in 2009 for economic coverage; and ...
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