Jim Sells

Jim Sells, longtime mayor of Rogersville, has made the decision to step down after nearly 48 years as mayor and more than 50 on the Rogersville Board of Mayor and Alderman. Sells was first elected as an alderman in 1971 and then ran for mayor in 1977. He was recently elected to his twelfth term as mayor in 2021. Rogers is the longest served mayor in Tennessee, second to McLemoresville’s Mayor Phil Williams, and is the sixth-longest serving mayor in the U.S.