DOCUMENTSPDF:A Report on Tennessee’s Attorney General Selection
A law study group has released a report calling for a change to Tennessee’s process for selecting the state’s attorney general.
The study notes that the last eight attorneys general had Democratic Party affiliations and that Tennessee is one of only seven states that appoints rather than elects its attorney general.
J. Ammon Smartt and Keith W. Randall conducted the study for the Federalist Society, a conservative-leaning law and public policy study group, and released their findings last week.
“Not only is the current system political, it’s dominated by a single party,” Smartt said in a phone interview.