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.