Gov. Bill Lee will consider Hamilton County Criminal Court Judge Tom Greenholtz and three other names for the two imminent vacancies on the Court of Criminal Appeals Eastern Section.
The Governor’s Council for Judicial Appointments considered Greenholtz and six other applicants when it met earlier this month to select nominees for the vacancies.
Lee will also be considering Andrew Freiberg, Kyle Hixson and Tracy Jenkins.
The Hon. Norma McGee Ogle and the Hon. D. Kelly Thomas, Jr. elected to not file declarations of candidacy for retention in the August 2022 election.
Gov. Bill Haslam appointed Greenholtz to serve as a Hamilton County Criminal Court judge in 2015. Greenholtz filled the vacancy Judge Rebecca Stern created when she retired.
Greenholtz won the Republican primary for the special term election March 1, 2016 and the general election Aug. 4, 2016.
He is a 1996 graduate of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and earned his juris doctor from the University of Tennessee College of Law in Knoxville in 1999.
Greenholtz was a shareholder of the law firm Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel from 2006 until his judicial appointment in 2015.
Source: Tennessee Supreme Court; Ballotpedia