NASHVILLE – Gov. Bill Haslam on Friday appointed attorney Tom Greenholtz of Ooltewah as 11th Judicial District Criminal Court judge, filling the vacancy left by the June retirement of Judge Rebecca Stern.
“I am pleased to appoint Tom Greenholtz to this important position,” Haslam said in a news release. “His background, experience and involvement in the community all help qualify him, and the 11th Judicial District will benefit from his service on the bench.”
Greenholtz, 42, is a shareholder with the law firm Chambliss Bahner & Stophel, where he has worked since 2006. He was previously with Shumacker Witt Gaither & Whitaker from 2004-06 and Summers & Wyatt from 2002-2004.
His areas of practice have included criminal defense, civil and criminal appeals, municipal and government law; business, commercial, and banking advice and litigation; labor and employment law as well as anti-trust compliance.
He also has been an arbitrator and an adjunct professor of political science at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where he taught classes on presidential powers, federalism and the First Amendment. He was a law clerk for Tennessee Supreme Court Justice William M. Barker from 1999-2002.