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Brooklyn Sawyers Belk

Brooklyn Sawyers Belk
Brooklyn Sawyers Belk

Brooklyn Sawyers Belk has been named deputy director for professional standards by Knoxville Police Chief Paul Noel. Belk most recently served as a law professor at the University of Tennessee, where she obtained her law degree, and is a former federal prosecutor. Prior to teaching at the University of Tennessee, Belk was a partner and chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer at the Atlanta-based firm of Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial. She also served as in-house counsel for a technology company working with law enforcement nationally. She served as a federal prosecutor for the U.S. Department of Justice from 2009 to 2018, including in East and Middle Tennessee. Belk earned her bachelor’s degree from Emory and Henry College, a master’s degree in art history from East Tennessee State University, and her law degree from the University of Tennessee.