Marvene Noel, a member of Chattanooga’s city council since 2022, has announced that she’s running for reelection.
Noel’s campaign team wrote in a statement announcing her candidacy that her core values are faith, family and community. Given another term on the council, she said her main priorities will be improving public safety and addressing food access. Those goals are interlinked, she said.
“It’s extremely hard on us,” the Orchard Knob resident said in a phone interview. “Both of them can be our demise.”
Noel represents the Amnicola and Avondale precincts and the Bushtown neighborhood. Other than Noel, three people – Anna Golladay, Doll Standridge and Kelvin Scott – have picked up petitions for the seat. Only Scott’s petition had been returned and approved as of press time Monday.
Noel, a professional pharmacy technician and former president of Orchard Knob’s neighborhood association, was appointed in March 2022 to replace council member Anthony Byrd, who vacated the seat to become Chattanooga’s city court clerk. Noel won the role outright after a runoff election against activist Marie Mott six months later.