Longtime Chattanooga attorney Arthur C. Grisham will run as an independent in the August election to fill the vacant judgeship on Hamilton County’s Chancery Court.
He joins Republican candidate Jeffrey Atherton and Democratic candidate Valerie Epstein.
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Long a fixture in Chattanooga’s civil courts, Mr. Grisham, 67, said he never thought about running until his colleagues began stopping him in the halls earlier this year to tell him what a great judge he would make.
“I really have been blessed by the practice of law in Chattanooga,” Mr. Grisham said Friday. “I will use my experience and legal knowledge to help my community continue to experience the high standards of justice we have had during the 39 years I have practiced law.”